Wizkid Rain Accolades On Tems As ‘Essence’ Bags Platinum Certification
Popular Grammy award-winning artiste, Wizkid, has attained another feat with his 2020 song, “Essence”, which he featured fast-rising Nigerian artiste, Tems. The song reached the platinum status barely a month after it was certified gold in the US.
According to the BRITS Certified Awards website, songs are given platinum state when they attain 600,000 units of sales. The records are awarded the gold status for 400,000 units and silver for 200,000 units, but this would be determined on Official Charts Company data.
Tems’ manager, Muyiwa Awoniyi, posted a video on his Instagram story, where Tems and Wizkid were collecting the certification plaque. This is exactly after the duo performed “Essence” together for the first time on stage in the United States.
While referring to Tems, Wizkid said, “I love you, baby girl, you’re a superstar. This is your time. This is your moment. This is your time and moment and the world needs to hear this because it is special to me.”
“We have a Platinum record and I just want to say thank you to everyone involved in this from Tems to the producers, Legendary beats, these are my brothers from way back. I want to say we made a good beat.
”Thanks to the whole team for believing in the dreams from early, to my fans I appreciate you all and I pray God blesses all of you.”
‘Essence’ becomes Wizkid’s second to be certified this year after his 2017 song, “Come Closer”, where he featured Canadian rapper, Drake, was certified platinum and gold in the UK and Australia in April.
