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Taylor Swift, Alex Warren hits major milestone in RIAA rankings<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift and Alex Warren earned highest accolade in the Recording Industry Association of America rankings.<\/p>\n
The association has announced its annual tally of 2025 gold and platinum certifications for albums and singles, with Swift\u2019s Life of a Showgirl and Warren\u2019s Ordinary topping the lists, respectively.<\/p>\n
According to Variety, RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Glazier said, “RIAA is proud to recognise the artists and their label partners who defined the year with music that exemplifies human artistry and reached remarkable milestones.”<\/p>\n
He added, “From Taylor Swift and Alex Warren, who earned this year\u2019s top honours, to all the artists who have been certified this past year, we wrap 2025 with excitement for all the ways music has impacted people\u2019s lives.”<\/p>\n
The Lover crooner\u2019s album surpassed five million RIAA-certified units for the highest certification and top album of the year, while Warren\u2019s three-time platinum Ordinary was the top single.<\/p>\n
Apart from these two, EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singing voices of HUNTR\/X from KPop Demon Hunters, had three songs, the double platinum Golden and two platinum How It\u2019s Done and What It Sounds Like.<\/p>\n
There was one other multi-platinum album, Cardi B\u2019s Am I the Drama?, the other platinum albums from the year include Warren\u2019s You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid, Drake and PartyNextDoor\u2019s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem, Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend and Tate McRae\u2019s So Close to What.<\/p>\n
The RIAA is a trade organisation that represents the US music industry. It was founded in 1952 in Washington, DC. The RIAA is responsible for certifying albums and singles based on sales and streaming, issuing gold, platinum, and multi-platinum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift, Alex Warren hits major milestone in RIAA rankings Taylor Swift and Alex Warren earned highest accolade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-179832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}