With digital sales being up big time, expect a lot more news from singles going gold and different level of platinums in the near future. Anywho, today, Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis’ hit single ‘Thrift Shop’ reached 4x platinum after selling over 300k copies for the 9th straight week. Mac Miller’s Donald Trump single reached the platinum status after a while, while Justin Timberlake’s latest single with Jay-Z ‘Suit & Tie’ went platinum as well. Drake’s new single ‘Started From The Bottom’ also went gold today. Congrats to all of these guys.
US digital sales: #6 Started From The Bottom, @Drake 142,245 (520,944 total).
— Chart News (@chartnews) March 6, 2013
US digital sales: Suit & Tie by @JTimberlake feat. Jay-Z tops the 1 million mark. The song has sold 1,111,913 downloads.
— Chart News (@chartnews) March 6, 2013
US digital sales: Thrift Shop @macklemore & @RyanLewis tops the 4 million mark. The songs has sold 4,203,726 downloads.
— Chart News (@chartnews) March 6, 2013
Today is a big day. @macmiller's "Donald Trump" has just gone PLATINUM!!! What an achievement! #totallyindependent #1004363sold
— Benjy Grinberg (@benjybenjy) March 6, 2013
donald trump is platinum.
— Mac (@MacMiller) March 6, 2013
damn… i have a platinum record. that's crazy.
— Mac (@MacMiller) March 6, 2013
It was just announced that @MacMiller’s song “DonaldTrump” went platinum—tell Mac Miller to kiss my ass!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2013