Lady A “Need You…” Climbs 5X Platinum

Country fans are showing their love in the form of purchases during this hot summer season. The latest RIAA sales report for July 2011 shows Nashville music warmly represented. The magic numbers to qualify for Gold and Platinum awards are 500,000 and one million respectively.

Capitol Nashville lead the Nashville labels with the equivalent of 3 million units of singles and albums certified this month. Close behind with 2 million units each were BNA, Broken Bow and Mercury.

Lady A and Shania were the only Nashville acts to earn multi-platinum awards, for “Need You Now,” and “You’re Still The One,” respectively.

The number of singles represented this month greatly outnumbers albums, as 19 different singles won awards and three albums were certified.

RIAA stats are based upon shipments from manufacturers to retailers and are not necessarily actual sales. For example, it is common to see a Gold song with under 500,000 scans on SoundScan.

July 2011 Certifications

Multi-Platinum Single
Lady Antebellum/Need You Now/Capitol Nashville/5X

Platinum Single
Jason Aldean/Dirt Road Anthem/This Is Hit (BBR)
Jason Aldean/My Kinda Party/Broken Bow
Kenny Chesney/Somewhere With You/BNA
Kenny Chesney/Summertime/BNA
Lady Antebellum/Just A Kiss/Capitol Nashville
Blake Shelton/Honey Bee/Warner Bros. Nashville

Gold Single
Gary Allan/Watching Airplanes/MCA Nashville
Eric Church/Homeboy/EMI Records Nashville
Easton Corbin/A Little More Country Than That/Mercury
Billy Currington/Let Me Down Easy/Mercury
Eli Young Band/Crazy Girl/Republic Nashville
Lady Antebellum/Just A Kiss/Capitol Nashville
Little Big Town/Little White Church/Capitol Nashville
Jake Owen/Eight Second Ride/RCA Nashville
Jake Owen/Barefoot Blue Jean Night/RCA Nashville
Blake Shelton/Honey Bee/Warner Bros. Nashville
George Strait/Troubadour/MCA Nashville
Sugarland/Settlin’/Mercury
The Band Perry/You Lie/Republic Nashville
Chris Young/Tomorrow/RCA Nashville

Platinum Album
Zac Brown Band/You Get what You Give/Homegrown/Atlantic
Rascal Flatts/Nothing Like This/Big Machine

Gold Albums
Rascal Flatts/Nothing Like This/Big Machine
Chris Young/The Man I Want To Be/Mercury

Multi-Platinum Single
Shania Twain/You’re Still The One/Mercury (2X; released 1/27/1998)