February 15Feb 15 On 11/02/2026 at 08:15, GreyAsh said:Was ‘Speed Demon’ released anywhere?It was released as a promotional single, and it was one of the music videos that make up the Moonwalker film. So while not an official single in the traditional sense, it did have a music video and was part of a film.
February 20Feb 20 "The Life Of A Showgirl" is now only 2 tracks away from having all of them certified. The uncertified tracks are "Eldest Daughter" and "Honey".
February 20Feb 20 1 hour ago, DanielCarey said:"The Life Of A Showgirl" is now only 2 tracks away from having all of them certified. The uncertified tracks are "Eldest Daughter" and "Honey".‘Eldest Daughter’ also certified today!
February 27Feb 27 "Mastermind" in Taylor's album "Midnights" is now certified Gold. @gasman449 Edited February 27Feb 27 by DanielCarey
March 27Mar 27 "Dress" in the album "reputation" is now certified Gold. @gasman449 Edited March 27Mar 27 by DanielCarey
April 10Apr 10 Author Definitely Maybe now the first album from the 20th century to have all its songs certified!
July 3Jul 3 Olivia Rodrigo's 'hope ur ok' is now gold, which I believe makes SOUR only the second album (after ÷) where every track is at least gold!(Arctic Monkeys' 'One For The Road' is now platinum)
July 24Jul 24 Author I think Short N Sweet is now one song away from being fully certified, Lie To Girls is the only one missing a cert! Edited July 24Jul 24 by gasman449
August 4Aug 4 Just noticed the standard version on TTPD is missing 1 song in Clara Bow and TLOAS is missing 1 in honey im guessing the latter is most likely first Edited August 4Aug 4 by 777666jason
August 4Aug 4 What an interesting idea for a thread! It's hard to find any really 'new' ideas on chart fora which haven't already been thought-through, researched in depth and presented elsewhere, but this is genuinely something I've not seen before. A bit too much of a skew towards 21st century material for my preferences. But then obviously certification of every track on an album was only really something that could've become a phenomenon from the download era onwards, when all tracks could be purchased individually irrespective of whether they received an official single release, and only really a regular phenomenon since the streaming era took hold, meaning that most music consumption is now measured on rented digital listens rather than purchases of the product. Hence certification of multiple tracks of all kinds goes up significantly across many more artists' repertoire, and every song on a long-player set has far greater potential to reach for a certification of some sort, in far less time after initial release. Yet I am in full agreement with the earlier post who observed that Catfish and The Bottlemen's LP feels like a bit of an outlier among these other acts, most of whom are megastars and huge hitters in streaming (and in some cases sales too) contexts and who are so well-established and well-known among the populace that even those who don't listen to popular music, or enjoy its recent output, can't not have heard of them (Ed, Taylor, Adele, Justin et al). Yet C & TB are rather more niche by comparison, and they've never even managed a Top 10 hit single! Indeed, with the key exception of Arctic Monkeys, whose certification was as much if not more thanks to digital (and to a fair extent physical) sales across each of its songs, guitar-driven and more old-school 'rock' acts are the ones that seem to have lost out most noticeably in the rapid transition away from paid sales and towards rented streams. I've never quite been able to pin down convincingly why that is. The genre went back to 1960s/'70s basics in the '90s and struck gold again after taking a relative backseat during the '80s, and kept its profile up through the 2000s, yet sometime around the '10s its interest waned to the point of barely being represented in the most-consumed listings. Okay, new rock artists still pop up more pertinently on the albums charts, but often only for a week or so on fanbase sales only. It's a novelty even now to see a rock or guitar-led song in the singles charts, unless it's a 'heritage' title that's receiving special 'TikTok' or 'Netflix' treatment etc. Unlike hip-hop/rap and its subgenres which seem to have proliferated and positively thrived in the streaming era, poor old rock (especially new bands) seems to have been largely overlooked on that metric. And with sales being so low, even good performance in that sector tends not to raise its profile that notably among most listeners. So, to see a C & TB album on this list is even more like a breath of fresh air (and I'm not even that big a rock music lover). I just wouldn't have thought that if there was a recent artist of that ilk to break with the overarching trend and receive major streaming attention, it would've been them!
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