{"id":1171925,"date":"2022-08-09T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/see-shatta-wale-reaction-to-his-riaa-gold-certification\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:26:43","slug":"see-shatta-wale-reaction-to-his-riaa-gold-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/see-shatta-wale-reaction-to-his-riaa-gold-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"See Shatta Wale Reaction To His RIAA Gold Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-top-ghanaian-dancehall-musician-and-sm-boss-charles-nii-armah-mensah-jnr-known-within-the-showbiz-circles-as-shatta-wale-has-bagged-a-major-career-milestone\">Top Ghanaian dancehall musician and SM boss, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, known within the showbiz circles as Shatta Wale has bagged a major career milestone.<\/h2>\n<p>You would recall that in 2019, globally recognized singer, songwriter, producer and actress, Beyonc\u00e9 Giselle Knowles-Carter, better known by her stage name, Beyonce recruited the Ghanaian superstar on a record tagged; \u201cAlready\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830411\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The beautifully crafted single, \u2018Already\u2019 which also features Major Lazer happens to be a single off Beyounce\u2019s star-studded studio album, \u2018The Lion King: The Gift\u2019 and was featured in the 2020 film \u2018Black Is King\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, August 8, 2022, \u2018Already\u2019 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after garnering over 500,000 unit sales in US. This feat makes Shatta Wale the first Ghanaian act to be gold-certified.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-also-wizkid-bags-another-gold-certification-in-us\">ALSO: Wizkid Bags Another Gold Certification In US<\/h4>\n<p>Well, the Ghanaian dancehall act, Shatta Wale has taken to his official social media page to react to this latest milestone. In a post via his verified Facebook page, the \u2018Hajia Bintu\u2019 hit-maker stated that, those who doubt this latest achievement should continue to argue. <strong><em>\u201cOk let dem argue\u2026 Ade Amerrica\u201d<\/em><\/strong>. Screenshot below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"619\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2711.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830560\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Recording Industry Association of America Gold and platinum certification program was created to honor artists and track sound recording sales. It has also become the benchmark defining success in the recorded music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The song, \u2018Already\u2019 won the 2022 Best Collaboration of the Year award at the 18th Urban  Awards and 6th annual AEAUSA. In 2020, the song won Best Collaboration at the 2020 BreakTudo Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Ghgossip.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"b5945702b1f0cb7f577fba71-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Ghanaian dancehall musician and SM boss, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, known within the showbiz circles as Shatta Wale has bagged a major career milestone. You would recall that in 2019, globally recognized singer, songwriter, producer and actress, Beyonc\u00e9 Giselle Knowles-Carter, better known by her stage name, Beyonce recruited the Ghanaian superstar on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5939,430,5824,22768,134,886],"class_list":["post-1171925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-certification","tag-gold","tag-reaction","tag-riaa","tag-shatta","tag-wale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}