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This needs debate. One thing is to list ONLY all of the singles that have been certified multiplatinum by the RIAA through the years since 1958 to present - specifying the different requirements for gold, platinum and multiplatinum from before and after 1989 and maybe making a special topic on digital certifications - and another very different thing is to list the top selling singles of all time in the United States since everyone knows there's a bunch of top selling singles in history that have never been certified by the RIAA. Does this means that we should only include singles that have been certified multiplatinum by the RIAA and miss any other multimillion seller that has never been certified anything?
Kinkorama (talk) 19:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
The pre 1989 era of RIAA certifications awarded gold for net shipments of 1 million units and platinum for 2 million. So when this page states that singles having shipped at least 2 million copies are multiplatinum singles, that's technically correct only if we are talking about post 1989 certifications when gold was recuced to half a million in net shipments and platinum also was reduced to a million, meaning that 2 million was double platinum, and 3 and 4 and so on, multiplatinum. Anybody wants to contribute to this debate?
Kinkorama (talk) 23:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll remove "NEW, Please Hold" from Black Earl, in the next few hours, unless someone explains why should it be included. I don't even know if it's a song, a single, what is it really? where it came from? Accuracy needed please.
Kinkorama (talk) 17:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
There are Platinum ringtones listed on the page that, in my opinion, should not be considered singles since they do not contain the entire song. Billboard, for example, does not consider a ringtone to be a single and does not use them to compile the Hot 100. ("Stay Fly" by Three 6 Mafia was certified as a ringtone, not a digital single.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Superbu (talk • contribs) 18:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
"Just Dance" ha vendido alrededor de 5.911.000 millones de copias digitales en los Estados Unidos. "Poker Face" la canción ha vendido 5,84 millones pagados descargas digitales en los Estados Unidos según Nielsen SoundScan. "Bad Romance" la canción ha vendido más de 4 millones de descargas digitales en los Estados Unidos, según Nielsen SoundScan
If there are no objections, I think we should reorder the songs in the 6 Million, 5 Million, & 4 Million sections to reflect which songs have sold the most. I think it would be useful, considering this page details the best selling singles in the country. I also think we should remove the 3 Million section, due to the quickly increasing number of songs selling that much, because the list is getting to long to be an acurate representation of just the best selling singles. Perhaps we could even include the most reliable available sales numbers, similar to what the page Best-selling singles worldwide does.
Considering that we are now going by actual sales and not RIAA-certified shipments, I was wondering if we could add the singles that were mentioned as not having been certified and also modify the "Notes about RIAA certification" section.
These are the uncertified (or low-certified) singles mentioned in the article I was referring to:
I'm pretty sure that the source all these sales figures were quoted from is Joel Whitburn's Pop memories, 1890-1954.
If that's not the case, a good place to start looking for non-certification-dependent sales is here. Of the two books, only the latter's contents are searchable.--Mαuri’96 “...over the Borderline” 19:50, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
why does somebody keep on reposting the singles that have sold over 3 million copies??? with the rapid increase in music downloading in the united states, i think only the very best should be posted here, and that is from 4 million copies and above, since these are the ones easily to sell over 5 million copies worldwide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.202.175.25 (talk) 04:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
i remember this once when wikipedia first posted this article, with 2 million sellers being the lowset salesmark. during that time wikipedia still used riia certifications and did not use third party sources. if we do the same with today, even if we use the riaa certificates only, there would still be plenty of songs on the list, which will contradict the whole articles target list. besides, it is already east for singles to reach the 3 million salesmark, which doesn't make it a bestseller's mark anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.217.58.78 (talk) 04:47, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
why were many other hits erased? lack of sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.208.30.30 (talk) 05:53, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Pre-download it was much harder to sell multi-million (mainly because of price compared with today's almost giveaway pricing). Would you consider having a section for physical multi-platinum singles - going down to 2 million. I don't think there would be too many altogether.(Coachtripfan (talk) 11:42, 7 August 2013 (UTC))
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Payphone should be at 5,286,000. Link to source: http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-aug-4-2013-songs-blur-200048881.html
Bottom of Page I requested Maroon 5's Overexposed single sales, and was answered by Paul Grein.
Paul Grein 1 hour ago I just happen to have that right here.
Payphone: 5,286,000 One More Night: 4,349,000 Daylight: 1,954,000 Love Somebody: 997,000
72.39.212.131 (talk) 22:31, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
With a few exceptions, there is no physical sales data for most of these songs, so the figures for total sales are totally inaccurate, reflecting only downloads. Or have I misunderstood something here? Grand Dizzy (talk) 21:38, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
RIAA Crowns Katy Perry Top Certified Digital Artist Ever source 1, source 2 77.44.232.141 (talk) 13:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
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114.108.228.80 (talk) 00:20, 11 July 2014 (UTC) pls use sources for referring to new and updates sales:
5,717,000, "Love Story" 4,935,000, "I Knew You Were Trouble." 4,469,000, "You Belong With Me"
https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-beachin-over-the-4th-171629438.html
The July 4 holiday helped five other songs return to Hot Digital Songs: Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A." (14K this week, 865K total), Toby Keith's "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)" (12K this week, 1,245,000 total), Katy Perry's "Firework" (12K this week, 6,668,000 total), Miley Cyrus's "Party In The U.S.A." (11K this week, 5,542,000 total) and Zac Brown Band's "Chicken Fried" (10K this week, 4,231,000 total).
I saw that on the list of the top-selling digital artists you used the sales figures of the last the Billboard sales update for Lady Gaga's sales ([1]), but they only reported her singles sales figures on that report, they didn't give a general number for all of her singles and album tracks combined, like they did on their August 2013 report ([2]), which said she had sold a combined 46,322,000 singles and album tracks at the time. If we sum up the sales figures for her top-selling singles they gave on that report, the total is 41,495,000 singles sold, so if we substract to the total combined song sales (46,322,000) her singles sales (41,495,000) we get an aproximate of 4,827,000 album songs sales at that time, if that figure is added to the top-selling singles figure they gave in the latest report, her total songs sales would be of at least 52,176,000 copies sold.
FredeGermanotta (talk) 23:50, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Add "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus. http://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=MILEY+CYRUS&ti=WRECKING+BALL
~Tridor (talk) 18:08, 10 July 2016 (UTC)Tridor
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It seems that today's 4 million copy mark is yesterday's 3 million copy mark. I propose deleting this section. Richard Hendricks (talk) 18:43, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
WHY IS CANDLE IN THE WIND 97 ONLY AT 839000 IN THE BEST SELLING SINGLES IN THE AMERICAN LIST WHEN IT HAS CLEARLY SOLD OVER 11 MILLION OR AT THE VERY LEAST ITS DIAMOND CERT OF 10 MILLION COPIES SOLD07:46, 17 May 2018 (UTC)07:46, 17 May 2018 (UTC)07:46, 17 May 2018 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.27.204 (talk)
the chart begins to include 5 million in the 6 million section not sure if its my screen, wont fix it due to LOI. DANIELTHEDON (talk) 19:17, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
chartdata.org should not be considered a reliable source. Richard Hendricks (talk) 04:33, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
WHAT A LOAD OF NONSENSE RIAA CERTIFICATION PROCESS REALLY IS WHEN IT CONCERNS DIGITAL SINGLES. YOU HAVE SINGLES SELLING ONLY 6 .5 MILLION IN REAL TERMS BUT ARE CERT AT 12X YET SINGLES THAT HAVE SOLD OVER 7 MILLION ARE CERT AT ONLY 11X WHAT CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!06:35, 23 October 2019 (UTC)06:35, 23 October 2019 (UTC)06:35, 23 October 2019 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.93.33.237 (talk)
Baby Shark was certified 11x Platinum with 11 million sales. Shouldn't this be included? Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 16:10, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
The listing of best-selling digital singles should be limited to those singles that have achieved RIAA Diamond Certification or better. Richard Hendricks (talk) 17:44, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Life is Good by Future and Drake and Goosebumps by Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar recently went 10x platinum. Anfwepgnrwfinre (talk) 15:42, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Someone deleted Darius Rucker Wagon Wheel 9 X PlatinumWs (talk) 12:58, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
The 21 million sales you cite is simply not true. From the article you provide it is 4.5 million physical and half a million digital. Coachtripfan (talk) 15:52, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
The 25 million claim is simply not from a credible source. Coachtripfan (talk) 15:54, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
This list is getting out of hand especially with Digital singles, as RIAA Diamond certs are getting more and more easily obtainable in the streaming era. I suggest including singles only with reported sales and for the Diamond-or-above-certified singles, creating a new list like "List of the highest-certified singles in the United States". Ippantekina (talk) 03:10, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You says it has 14x Platinum, apparently digital. Why not in the article? 46.132.3.220 (talk) 00:25, 22 February 2024 (UTC)