Ayra Starr’s “Rush” has been certified Platinum in the United States, with the RIAA Gold and Platinum database dating the award November 5, 2026. It is her first US Platinum single, arriving four years after the song was first released in September 2022.
A US Platinum single represents one million units, counting sales and streaming equivalents. The certification is listed to Mavin Global Holdings, the label behind Starr’s debut era, and it closes a long certification run for a song that has already collected plaques on three continents.
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Ayra Starr Rush platinum plaque is her first in America
The RIAA award, reported by DancehallMag, makes “Rush” the first song in Starr’s catalogue to reach Platinum in the United States. For an Afrobeats single released in 2022 to still be crossing certification lines in late 2026 says as much about the song’s staying power as any chart peak. Most singles earn their plaques in their first year. This one is still earning them in its fifth.
A 2022 single that never stopped moving
“Rush” was released on September 16, 2022, and later added to the deluxe edition of Starr’s debut album, 19 & Dangerous. It spread first through TikTok, then through charts: No. 24 on the UK Singles Chart, two weeks at No. 1 on the UK Afrobeats chart, and a No. 1 peak in Sweden. Barack Obama included it in his favourite music of 2022. The TG Omori directed video has now passed 620 million views on YouTube, according to Kworb’s tracking, which makes it one of the most watched Afrobeats videos ever released by a female artist.
The certification shelf keeps growing
The song also carried Starr to her first Grammy nomination, for Best African Music Performance at the 66th Grammy Awards, where she was the first and youngest Nigerian female artist nominated in the category. “Rush” went Platinum in the United Kingdom in 2025, earned a Diamond certification in France, and had already reached Platinum in Canada and New Zealand before the US award landed.
That sequence matters. Canada was one of the early markets to certify the song, and the United States, the market that usually leads, is the one catching up. For a Nigerian singer who was 20 years old when the single dropped, the RIAA plaque is less a finish line than a marker of how completely “Rush” has become a permanent part of the global pop catalogue.
