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The 22nd anniversary of her debut album was yesterday and her new management (RocNation) finally paid to update her singles. Genie is now 2xP (from 1xP) Come On Over is now 1xP (from Gold) What a Girl Wants is now 1xP (from Gold) No Diamond certification for the album yet but it's been over 9M copies for at least 5 years now. Last week, her team celebrated Back to Basics' 15th anniversary by updating its album and single certifications too! In under a month, RocNation added 5M units to her certified total in the US! Stripped's anniversary is coming in October and Burlesque's and Lotus' are coming in November so that's plenty of new certifications to expect and be excited about!

Levitating becomes the longest female Top 10 in Hot 100 history with 34 weeks, breaking its tie with songs like Shape Of You and Sunflower It’s now the 3rd longest Top 10 ever behind Blinding Lights and Circles Congrats miss Lipa for this legendary solo achievement An icon in the making

She joins Ariana & Taylor as the only women with 4 (or more) albums at 2B streams. She's also the only female artist with 3 pre-streaming era albums at 2B (GGGB, Loud, Unapologetic). Breakdown: S&M - 455.6M Only Girl (In The World) - 429.5M What's My Name? - 283.4M Man Down - 225.4M California King Bed - 181.3M Love The Way You Lie (Part II) - 170.3M Cheers (Drink To That) - 85.1M Skin - 78M Raining Men - 29.3M Complicated - 27.9M Fading - 27.7M Only Girl (Remix) - 6.9M = 2,000,279,605

https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/ 6x Platinum - Sweet But Psycho (480K) 3x Platinum - Kings & Queens (240K) Platinum - My Head & My Heart, Salt (80K) Platinum - Heaven & Hell (album - 80K) Congrats Plus Ellie's Love Me Like You Do & Zayn/Taylor's I Don't Wanna Live Forever both just went 7x Platinum (560K)

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The record was previously held by LeAnn Rimes' “How Do I Live” (32 weeks)

First male artist and second artist overall( #1 Ariana - 81M) to cross 80M

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As a hybrid stan, I'm so happy this has finally reached that mark. For me personally, this was a cultural reset.

As per the BPI website

3M units! Classic Lights did it again

Madonna's 2005 colossal hit officially reached 200 million streams on Spotify. This makes it Madonna's 3rd most streamed song Like A Prayer - 246,665,053 Material Girl - 227,496,653 Hung Up - 200,000,000 -------- Other songs that will hit the 200M mark this year: Like A Virgin - 189,640,160 4 Minutes - 177,093,535 La Isla Bonita - 176,418,270

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It joins We Don't Talk Anymore, Taki Taki and It Ain't Me as her fourth song to reach 1 billion streams on the platform.

While listing several achievements for the song: 5,410,644,400: Total cumulative audience for "Blinding Lights" on U.S. radio. 1,270,906,753: Total on-demand U.S. streams for the song, audio and video combined. 811,500: Total U.S. downloads sold for the song. So according to Billboard, Blinding Lights has done 9,284,211 consumption units since its' release. Can't wait for that 9x Platinum certification from the RIAA This GLOBAL stat: 33: "Blinding Lights" has hit No. 1 on surveys in Billboard's charts menu encompassing 33 countries. Its world domination has extended to Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Venezuela. And the other records it broke: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9615822/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-statistics-behind-record-breaking-run/