Four months after Chris Brown made headlines for tying Bruno Mars as the second best-selling male singer in the history of digital music (as we reported here), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) confirms C. Breezy has breezed past his ‘Grenade’-singing counterpart to claim the runner-up title by his lonesome.
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On Tuesday (February 8), the RIAA took to press to announce Brown’s H.E.R.-assisted tune ‘Come Together’ (found aboard his latest studio album ‘Indigo’) had been certified GOLD. The measure, which signifies sales of 500,000 units in the United States, is all the more impressive considering the song never impacted the Billboard Hot 100.
Thanks to the update, Brown not only zooms past Mars’ career total of 90.5 million digital sales but he also extends his reign as the most-certified Black male singer ever as his cumulative digital sales now sit at 91 million. Among all male vocalists, only Justin Bieber (at 107 million digital records sold) has more to his credit.
With all acts considered, Chris Brown is the 9th best-selling act in digital music history. His catalog sales are bested only by Drake, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Eminem, Bieber, Katy Perry, and Post Malone.