Kanye West can Anchorwoman A XXX Parodyadd another platinum record to the wall and another "first" to his trophy case. "The Life Of Pablo" has gone platinum, the first album to reach that status through streams.
SEE ALSO: Kanye West realizes no one man should have all that power, deletes Trump tweetsThe milestone, first reported by Pitchfork, was confirmed to Mashableby a spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Tuesday afternoon. The RIAA also gave Kanye a shoutout on a platform he knows all too well: Twitter.
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According to the RIAA's criteria, it takes "1,500 on-demand audio and/or video streams" to equal a single "unit" towards an album's status. With over 3 billion streams worldwide and 1.5 billion in the U.S., per The Verge, the album officially crossed the RIAA's platinum barrier. All seven of Kanye's studio albums and his Watch The Thronecollaboration with Jay-Z have all gone platinum now.
The RIAA has yet to update Kanye's info on their Gold and Platinum website to reflect the new stats, though.
A few weeks after TLOP's release in February 2016, Kanye said he was done putting music on CD and was going to only release music online.
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Kanye's kept a pretty low profile after a bad 2016 but things are going much better, if a bit quieter, so far in 2017.
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