Kranium Mines More Gold, Platinum In Canada
New York-based Dancehall artist Kranium continues to bag more accolades in Canada. We Can, his 2017 collab with rapper Tory Lanez, is now certified Gold, while Nobody Has To Know, first released in 2013, was certified Platinum in the country in August.
On Friday, November 19, Music Canada revealed that Kranium was awarded another Gold Single Award after We Can sold more than 40,000 units in Canada. On August 31, the distribution and record company awarded a Platinum Single Award to the Montego Bay native after his hit Nobody Has To Know sold more than 80,000 units.
Nobody Has To Know remains the 28-year-old’s most successful track, and had led him to a deal with Atlantic Records, which re-released the track in 2015 with an added verse from rapper Ty Dolla $ign. The official video has racked up over 103 million views on YouTube.
In the US, the song peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart before it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2019 for sales of more than 500,000 units.
Nobody Has To Know had also earned a Gold Single Award in Canada in 2019, and a Brit Certified Silver award in the UK earlier this year.
In October 2020, Kranium, whose real name is Kemar Donaldson, earned another Gold Single Award in Canada for Can’t Believe , a collab with Ty Dolla $ign and WizKid.
We Can, featuring Torey Lanez, is now Kranium’s third single to be certified Gold in Canada. The late-night jam, which soundtracked one highlight of Cardi B’s recent Passa Passa party, was produced by Sakpase & DJ Marley Waters and currently has over 23 million views on YouTube.
“I feel like each time when I get a record that goes big it leads more people to the catalogue. Last year we went gold in Canada with Can’t Believe. These records been going gold in different countries. The consistency of the work leads people to the catalogue,” Kranium told the Observer, earlier this year.
“Some people do music for music, but I do music for a cause. I’m representing for dancehall music overseas. When Nobody Has to Know came out, my dream was to make a song that a dancehall artiste can do from America. Not every song works, but I’ve never in my life focused on more than one song at a time,” he told the newspaper.
Kranium’s last big hit was Gal Policy on the Soul Survivor Riddim. The song was later added to his Toxic EP, released earlier this year.
His most recent release, Last Time , arrived last month and was produced by Markus Records on the Different Level Riddim.