Teen Pop sensation
Justin Bieber’s
smashing hit ‘Baby’ has become the highest-certified single in US history.
The 19-year-old’s ‘Baby’ has now gone 12 times platinum as it overtook Elton John’s ‘Candle in the Wind/Something About the Way You Look Tonight’, reported E! Online. John’s tribute went 11 times platinum in 1997.
Bieber has benefited from a recent change made by the Recording Industry Association of America that incorporates on-demand streaming data when it comes to measuring gold and platinum success. 100 streams is considered equal to one download.
Although, ‘Baby’ has only sold 3.9 million copies compared to ‘Candle in the Wind/Something About the Way You Look Tonight’ selling 33 million, the Bieber track has been viewed over 857 million times on Vevo. (PTI)
