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    Expert

    too early to be sassy

    I’m stealing this

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    Garth Brooks with 9 Diamond ALBUMS is f***ing crazy

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    TheFader
    https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1927772758651375833https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1927773014428369197https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1927773439181435289https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1927774304977973489

    That's just the beginning too

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    and he updated all the press photos….

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    goretex

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    So happy for Majid Jordan to get their first ever diamond track

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    Blue Magic

    So happy for Majid Jordan to get their first ever diamond track

    OVO Sound artists really winning this year.

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    quadra
    https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1927785837703344155

    Solo album isn't even out yet

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    Garth Brooks having 9 Diamond albums is absolute insanity

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    Expert

    Garth Brooks with 9 Diamond ALBUMS is f***ing crazy

    https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1927774304977973489

    Well over half of his certifications are fraud / bundled so

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    iHype

    Well over half of his certifications are fraud / bundled so

    Explain

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    iHype

    Well over half of his certifications are fraud / bundled so

    his numbers always trip me up, if you look at the biggest single concerts its pretty much him at top of the list. He just did one last year that did 25M I think.

    He is definitely a superstar but his numbers would make you believe he in MJ/Beatles range which he isn't.

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    Explain

    RIAA unlike Billboard/Luminate is way easier to game cause sales certifications are based on shipments (and now including streaming).

    Also they count how many discs are apart of an album. So a 3 disc album would count as 3 sales.

    Garth was definitely huge and the biggest male artist of the 90s, but his RIAA certs are hella inflated with multi-discs, discontinued club sales, etc. Most of his certifications are ridiculous compared to actual sales.

    He made it a personal goal to become the highest certified artist by any means necessary.

    He recently had a 2018 live tour album that is certified 7x Platinum yet never charted.

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    Expert

    DTMF 5B+ in streams already.

    He just crossed 100B+ spotify streams joining Drake and Swift as well. Probably becomes the #1 streaming artist next year.

    First album to do 10B streams in a year?

    We gon get it there

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    iHype

    RIAA unlike Billboard/Luminate is way easier to game cause sales certifications are based on shipments (and now including streaming).

    Also they count how many discs are apart of an album. So a 3 disc album would count as 3 sales.

    Garth was definitely huge and the biggest male artist of the 90s, but his RIAA certs are hella inflated with multi-discs, discontinued club sales, etc. Most of his certifications are ridiculous compared to actual sales.

    He made it a personal goal to become the highest certified artist by any means necessary.

    He recently had a 2018 live tour album that is certified 7x Platinum yet never charted.

    7x plat but never charted sounds crazy

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    thegreatdivine

    OVO Sound artists really winning this year.

    I’ve heard that Naomi Sharon song on so many reels too. Looks like she got one

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    quadra

    7x plat but never charted sounds crazy

    Same cert as Scorpion with a box set of live tour performances that were sold on his website and never charted

    I honestly think he and his team just straight up bought copies with that one. RIAA allows as it as Jay-Z & Rihanna have gone Platinum from Samsung buying copies and then handing them out as free downloads.

    Almost all his certs this century are just box sets where an album has like 5 CDs and went 5x Platinum by shipping 1 million or something similar

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    Same cert as Scorpion with a box set of live tour performances that were sold on his website and never charted

    I honestly think he and his team just straight up bought copies with that one. RIAA allows as it as Jay-Z & Rihanna have gone Platinum from Samsung buying copies and then handing them out as free downloads.

    Almost all his certs this century are just box sets where an album has like 5 CDs and went 5x Platinum by shipping 1 million or something similar

    You to Garth

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