Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” with Billy Ray Cyrus is now the most certified song in RIAA history. The viral rap star shared on Twitter that the single, released in 2019, reached 14x Platinum, replacing “All of Me” by John Legend and “Despacito” by Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi and Justin Bieber, both 13x Platinum certified.
The RIAA’s single certification guidelines were revised in 2013 to account for flows for Gold and Platinum awards. In 2019, “Old Town Road” broke the record for almost every week as number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, staying in first place for 19 weeks in total before being knocked down by Billie Eilish’s “bad guy”. in his debut 7 EP. Last year, he released the single “Holiday”, produced by Take a Daytrip.