New retro certifications:

The Human League - Don't You Want Me (3x Platinum)

879,596 1980s BMRB/Gallup units + 1,800,000 post February 1994 units = 2,679,596 total chart units

or if we go by the OCC:

1.15 million units in 1981 + 373,580 rest of 1980s units + 1,800,000 post February 1994 units = 3,320,580 total chart units.

Madonna - Holiday (Platinum)

562,990 pre February 1994 units + 600,000 post February 1994 units = 1,162,990 total chart units!

Alphaville - Forever Young (Platinum)

9,231 1980s units + 600,000 post February 1994 units = 609,231 total chart units

Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Platinum)

120,000 1970s units + 600,000 post February 1994 units = 720,000 total chart units

Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil In Disguise (Gold)

267,000 1960s units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 667,000 total chart units

Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (Gold)

284,142 1980s units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 684,142 total chart units

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (Gold)

12,825 1992 units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 412,825 total chart units

The Stone Roses - Sally Cinnamon (Gold)

67,255 pre February 1994 units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 467,255 total chart units

Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down (Gold)

64,345 1980s units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 464,345 total chart units

Asia - Heat Of The Moment (Silver)

52,279 1980s units + 200,000 post February 1994 units = 252,279 total chart units

Big Country - In A Big Country (Silver)

90,032 1980s units + 200,000 post February 1994 units = 290,032 total chart units

Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade (Silver)

50,000 1969 units + 200,000 post February 1994 units = 250,000 total chart units

Edited June 27Jun 27 by Ne Plus Ultra

They haven't even started announcing the certifications on the BRITs Twitter account. Do you think that they're taking the week off this week?

Hope they actually update the website on time as that'll put my plans for the platinum non top 40 rate in jeopardy...

Edited Friday at 14:301 day by gasman449

6 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Hope they actually update the website on time as that'll put my plans for the platinum non top 40 rate in jeopardy...

They've actually posted a certification on there. There must've been a reason why they took 35 minutes to do so.

Certifications announced via the BRITs Twitter account:

 

SINGLES:

PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM

Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover) (3x)

Craig David - 7 Days (3x)

Lola Young - Messy (2x)

Charli xcx - Apple

GOLD

The 1975 - Give Yourself A Try

SILVER

Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

ALBUMS:

PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (18x)

Ed Sheeran - = (4x)

Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS (2x)

Now 5.4m.

Edited Friday at 15:321 day by ben08

Can see it going 19 or 20 times Platinum by the time the tour hysteria ends!

Just now, Ongarboy said:

Can see it going 19 or 20 times Platinum by the time the tour hysteria ends!

That would mean it needs to do another 300k in 2 months, don't know how likely that'll be...

Look out Sgt. Pepper - Oasis are catching up fast on you.

Probably less than 200,000 behind The Beatles. (Pepper is the biggest selling studio album)

Full certifications list for 4th July 2025:

 

SINGLES:

PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM

Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (7x)

Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover) (3x)

Craig David - 7 Days (3x)

Lola Young - Messy (2x)

Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows (2x)

Teddy Swims - The Door (2x)

Al Green - Let's Stay Together (2x)

Bob Marley And The Wailers - Redemption Song

Charli xcx - Apple

Ja Rule ft. Case - Livin' It Up

Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

GOLD

The 1975 - Give Yourself A Try

Alanis Morrsisette - Thank U

The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart

The Cure - The Lovecats

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Thank You (Not So Bad)

Father John Misty - Real Love Baby

Jorja Smith ft. Popcaan - Come Over

Joy Again - Looking Out For You

Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman

Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown

The Smiths - Panic

Vance Joy - Georgia

SILVER

Ataris - The Boys Of Summer

Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

Calvin Harris ft. Clementine Douglas - Blessings

Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Free

Catfish And The Bottlemen - Sidewinder

Giveon - Lost Me

Ja Rule - Put It On Me

Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee

Kodak Black - Super Gremlin

Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man

Marlon Hoffstadt - It's That Time

New Order - Regret

OneRepublic - All The Right Moves

The Reytons - On The Back Burner

Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

Skepta - Rescue Me

Skye Newman - Family Matters

Tion Wayne ft. Mist - Deluded

Tyler, The Creator ft. Brent Faiyaz & Fana Hues - Sweet/I Thought You Wanted To Dance

Zach Bryan - 28

Zach Bryan ft. Noah Kahan - Sarah's Place

ALBUMS:

PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (18x)

Ed Sheeran - = (4x)

Christina Aguilera - Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade Of Hits (2x)

Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS (2x)

MARINA - The Family Jewels

GOLD

Keri Hilson - In A Perfect World

Steps - Platinum Collection

SILVER

Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves

Various Artists - Legally Blonde Musical

Certs are up!

New retro certifications:

Al Green - Let's Stay Together (2x Platinum)

164,000 1970s units + 1,200,000 post February 1994 units = 1,364,000 total chart units

Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Platinum)

81,700 1970s units + 5,550 1992 units + 600,000 post February 1994 units = 687,250 total chart units

The Cure - The Lovecats (Gold)

201,892 pre February 1994 units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 601,892 total chart units

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown (Gold)

470,000 1970 units + 62,679 1976 units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 932,679 total chart units

The Smiths - Panic (Gold)

111,231 pre February 1994 units + 400,000 post February 1994 units = 511,231 total chart units

New Order - Regret (Silver)

96,840 1993 units + 200,000 post February 1994 units = 296,840 total chart units

Charli xcx - Apple

Happy to see this platinum! 2nd platinum single from [I]Brat[/I] Should see "Von Dutch" become the 3rd in the next year.

MARINA - The Family Jewels

Yes at this going platinum! Her first platinum album - times nicely with her most recently released album. I think Electra Heart musn't be too far off platinum, maybe we'll see that certified in the next year or so as well.

Edited Friday at 19:401 day by Envoirment

Just now, Envoirment said:

Charli xcx - Apple

Happy to see this platinum! 2nd platinum single from [I]Brat[/I] Should see "Von Dutch" become the 3rd in the next year.

it's actually her third platinum hit from the "BRAT" era. Both "Guess" and "360" went platinum earlier this year.

5 minutes ago, DanielCarey said:

it's actually her third platinum hit from the "BRAT" era. Both "Guess" and "360" went platinum earlier this year.

Ah totally forgot about "Guess"! Might be her first album to get 5 platinum+ songs as "Girl, so confusing" is streaming really well - Lorde's comeback has helped boost the song a bit and it's even managed to get more weeks top 100 on the UK singles chart recently!

Happy to see Glastonbury has helped boost Thank U enough to go gold this week.

About time for Don’t Phunk With My Heart. Given it sold over 150k in 2005, it seems a very long time to make up that extra 50k. Just shows what a poor choice of lead single that was.

Edit: just realised DPWMH is gold. Makes more sense now.

Edited yesterday at 08:181 day by GTH

14 hours ago, Envoirment said:

Charli xcx - Apple

Happy to see this platinum! 2nd platinum single from [I]Brat[/I] Should see "Von Dutch" become the 3rd in the next year.

MARINA - The Family Jewels

Yes at this going platinum! Her first platinum album - times nicely with her most recently released album. I think Electra Heart musn't be too far off platinum, maybe we'll see that certified in the next year or so as well.

When the last Marina album was released a few weeks ago, Family Jewels was on 299,400

Electra Heart is on 205K so might take a looong time or maybe not even get there

3 hours ago, Bjork said:

When the last Marina album was released a few weeks ago, Family Jewels was on 299,400

Electra Heart is on 205K so might take a looong time or maybe not even get there

Aww I didn't see that. I assumed it might trickle stream fairly well as various songs from it stream well and I think a couple went viral over the last couple years. ("Bubblegum Bitch", "Primadonna", "How to Be a Heartbreaker", "Teen Idle") although I guess the downweighting of the top 2 tracks hurts it.

I just went through the spotify data to estimate how much the album is selling per week via spotify only and it works out as 95 album sales from streams (assuming UK is 5% of spotify total streams, although wouldn't be surprised if a larger % of streams are from the UK). Assuming spotify is 50% of the market and she's streaming similarly elsewhere then the album is likely doing near 200 units per week in the UK from streaming which is just over 10k per year. Will take a decade to get to platinum.