https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=&ti=&lab=&genre=&format=&date_option=certification&from=2023-01-01&to=2023-12-31&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section

Oh wow, the mega smash Royals at 14x Platinum and more proof that Ribs should have been a single  

That's my queen mother  

 

L4 (album of the decade) is coming 

Ribs lowkey a hit 

Cult classic Ribs 

solar power diamond certification is coming shortly i’m sure!

Those are some fantastic stats for a debut album. Very well-deserved since Lorde's debut still holds up well to this day. The only Lorde record that's a miss for me was her last one, but I didn't outright hate it. I walked away from Solar Power just going "meh." 

ribs is an underrated perfection

Why hasn't Ribs had its TikTok moment? It's perfection. Let's give it the Bloody Mary / Harleys in Hawaii / Cruel Summer treatment? (alas Cruel Summer has the world's biggest star and a massive tour promoting it)

6 songs on the 10-track original album are now at least platinum  

Edited December 7, 20232 yr by Wonderland

14 hours ago, Tropical said:

Why hasn't Ribs had its TikTok moment? It's perfection. Let's give it the Bloody Mary / Harleys in Hawaii / Cruel Summer treatment? (alas Cruel Summer has the world's biggest star and a massive tour promoting it)

I think Ribs did have a small viral moment on TikTok a few years back when TikTok wasn't so big. Ribs took 6+ years to make it to 100M Spotify streams and has been adding 100M each year, the last 100M taking about 9 months. For a while it was getting more daily streams than Royals or any of her other songs.

15 hours ago, Tropical said:

Why hasn't Ribs had its TikTok moment? It's perfection. Let's give it the Bloody Mary / Harleys in Hawaii / Cruel Summer treatment? (alas Cruel Summer has the world's biggest star and a massive tour promoting it)

Maybe her team would make movements to put it on a crucial/iconic scene on some Netflix hit show to get viral ala Running Up That Hill. With that we'll have another Cruel Summer situation I fear 

Edited December 7, 20232 yr by Julia Fox

Incredible certifications, Ribs really should have been a single after Team/Tennis Court though it was wayyyyy ahead of its time. People will continue to discover and appreciate its greatness for years though which is more important than charts

Ribs, the classic that you lowkey ended up becoming

Lorde didn't even know she had the highest RIAA certified female solo song.

Was no-one in her label going to tell her?

 

https://twitter.com/LordeUpdatesBR/status/1733169013243437395