artist stats New Paula Abdul RIAA certifications

[Green]

SHARE	PAULA ABDUL	STRAIGHT UP	December 6, 2024	VIRGIN	SINGLE MORE DETAILS
SHARE	PAULA ABDUL	COLD HEARTED	December 6, 2024	VIRGIN	SINGLE MORE DETAILS
SHARE	PAULA ABDUL	RUSH RUSH	December 6, 2024	VIRGIN	SINGLE MORE DETAILS

 

 

STRAIGHT UP   2x Platinum
COLD HEARTED   Platinum
RUSH RUSH   Platinum

 

 

 

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=paula+abdul#search_section

 

 

They should update her debut album too (Forever Your Girl). Its last certification was in 1990

[sugarysunflower]

Paula ma'am what are you and Virgin doing?

 

FYG has gotta be Diamond at this point!! 

[Hector]

Legend, she deserves this  

[allforyou]

Finally  Also where is Head Over Heels gold certification? 

[theweekend]

rush rush being platinum when it was the fourth biggest hit of 1991 crazy

[Radical Pessimism]

Rush Rush is her best song

[LegaMyth]

My stomach dropped. I thought Mom was getting a DIAMOND cert for her album.

[JoAddams]

Since 80's  And why debut album still not diamond? 

[UseYourIllusion2002]

Paula getting certified before Madonna 

But FYG should definitely be Diamond. I think the album was still in the top 10 when it was certified 7x platinum, and I know it had an extremely long shelf life. 

[Maleficent]

I still remember meeting her decades ago when she was selling candles from a stall next to the highway. She's come so far.

[stars]

Why don't they want to update FYG like what's the hold up??

[blown away]

Paula is in dire need of a viral hit. These plaques give a very misleading indication of how big she was in 1988-1991 and the music is also way too good to go unnoticed.

[LegaMyth]

Rush Rush needs the Running Up That Hill treatment.

[dabunique]

like RR is one of da biggest songs of all time and its only platinum smh

 

also when is FYG hitting diamond

 

2 hours ago, blown away said:

Paula is in dire need of a viral hit. These plaques give a very misleading indication of how big she was in 1988-1991 and the music is also way too good to go unnoticed.

Exactly she was huge

 

she took out Madonna & Janet in 1989 lol

[bigham]

If you go to Spotify and look at Paula's streaming, it's quite poor.

 

Forever Your Girl was certified Gold in May 1989.

 

Opposites Attract was certified Gold in March 1990.

 

Both were not eligible for updates?

 

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=paula+abdul&ti=&lab=&genre=&format=&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section

[UseYourIllusion2002]

It sucks how a lot of people don't see massive hits from back then as massive, just because their RIAA certification isn't huge. In the late 80s/90s, a #1 single was lucky to even be certified gold. Platinum was seen as massive for a single. And if a song has poor streams (which is normal, considering some of these songs are 30+ years old), they're seen as flops. Some of these barely gold songs are just as big as many multi platinum hits today.