At the height of its popularity, Post Malone and Swae Lee‘s ‘Sunflower’ (found aboard the soundtrack of 2018’s animated film ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’) not only topped the Hot 100 but entered history books for becoming one of the longest-running top 10 hits of all time.
Racking up a whopping 33 weeks in the chart territory (a record for a soundtrack single), the only duet to have enjoyed a longer stay there overall was The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber‘s 2021 smash ‘Stay‘ (which lasted 47 weeks).
The Malone and Lee song’s impressive commercial performance was also evidenced by its 11x Platinum certification at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of 11 million in the United States by November 2020.
Two years later, the enduring success of ‘Sunflower’ sees it planted in the record books of the RIAA as well. Look inside to see how.
Taking to press Monday (November 14), the RIAA announced a slew of new certifications for Malone including a report that ‘Sunflower’ had met its threshold for 17x Platinum status – a measure that denotes sales of 17 million in the United States alone.
With the update, he and Lee now own the highest-certified song in history – a title that previously belonged to Lil Nas X for his gargantuan 2019 hit, ‘Old Town Road’ (which now sits at 16x Platinum).
‘Sunflower’ isn’t the only big Posty song enjoying a major certification upgrade, however.
His 2015 single, ‘White Iverson,’ and 2018 single, ‘Psycho’ (featuring Ty Dolla $ign), became his fourth and fifth songs to achieve Diamond status (for sales of 10 million in the United States) as the previously Diamond-certified ‘Congratulations‘ (featuring Quavo) saw its status pushed up to 14x Platinum.
While Post is the first rapper to own as many Diamond plaques, the overall record for most Diamond plaques belongs to Bruno Mars (6). Look below to see the full list of Malone’s updates.
17x Platinum
- ‘Sunflower’ (Single)
14x Platinum
- ‘Psycho’ (Single)
10x Platinum aka Diamond
- ‘White Iverson’ (Single)
9x Platinum
- ‘Circles’
8x Platinum
- ‘Wow’ (Single)
6x Platinum
- ‘Go Flex’
1x Platinum
- ‘Allergic’ (Single)
- ‘I’m Gonna Be’ (Single)
- ‘Blame It On Me’ (Single)
- ‘Sugar Wraith’ (Single)
- ‘Staring at the Sun’ (Single)
- ‘Up There’ (Single)
- ‘A Thousand Bad Times’ (Single)
- ‘Otherside’ (Single)
Never heard Sunflower until now…
Ok but not better than otr. Imo
great news and I have never heard the song!
And this time you don’t have any problem with the white color mother f****** racist?
How funny is this, that mother f***** played the white supremacist card to hate on Taylor Swift and now he talks about great news when a song from Post Malone (which is white) surpasses Lil Nas X (which is black) 😂 you are such a joke f****** hater, a clown 🤡
Swae lee is black. The kudos was for him and I will always support my own over a cultural appropriator. As much as you’d like to… you can NOT take my d***! You white pile-of-sticks 😄
This song is a POST MALONE song mother f*****, so you don’t have a problem with a black artist depending on a white artist to have a sucess? You are dumb as hell and I love how you are actually embarassing yourself
And I’m not white mother f***** racist dumbass, check your facts before you open that dumbmouth
You will show me where did I let you know that I would like to take your tiny d*** b****, you clearly are the one that wish I could but your fantasies are none of my concern delusional p**.
Oh Zade…. I usually have a good time debating with Shayla Q****… but you are really no match. And you’re boring. Unclever, uncreative, a little touched, weird, cringe, just off. But I stand by what I said. I am happy that this song feat Swae Lee was able to knock that horse riding bundle of twigs off it’s spot lol. I don’t listen to Postman Malone either. My issue with white appropriators are neck and neck for misrepresentation of black people like Nas Degenerate X. To confirm I STILL feel how I feel about flat chested Mayo No @$$ Swift. And in case you were getting too hype over there, my d*k was not an offer. But you keep flying around it on every comment I make. You F0g.got 🤮
All I read is blah blah blah and all I see is that i’m so boring that you write more than me in your answer 😂 make it make sense dumbass because you are that dumb but I’m at peace with that. IDGAF about your feelings but I glad I got them hurt that much, f****** hater with no brain AKA Shayla because we already know.
You hurt nothing lol. No idea you existed until I had you crying about that mayo swift I commented on. And tbh you still don’t exist.
Why you keep on answering to me then? Make it make sense dumbass 😂
Like everyone else, I never even heard of this song….
Congratulations to Post Malone ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
And no one will be covering or sampling these UNINSPIRING songs.
So collect ALL ur coins now….