Chris Brown‘s Grammy-nominated hit “Residuals” has received an RIAA certification.
The soul-crushing ballad is now certified gold, with over 500,000 equivalent units sold in the U.S.
“Residuals” is lifted from Brown’s Grammy-winning album 11:11 (Deluxe), which was crowned Best R&B Album at the 67th Grammy Awards.
At the same ceremony, Brown was nominated for Best R&B Performance (“Residuals”) and Best African Music Performance (“Sensational” featuring Davido and Lojay).
“Residuals” is the second track from 11:11 to achieve an RIAA cert. In November 2024, the album’s opening track, “Angel Numbers / Ten Toes,” received a gold certification.
“Residuals” isn’t showing any signals of slowing down. It’s still in the running for Outstanding Soul/R&B Song at the 2025 NAACP Image Awards.
Brown is also up for Outstanding Male Artist and Outstanding International Song (“Hmmm” featuring Davido). The NAACP Image Awards airs lives Feb. 22.
On this week’s Billboard charts (dated Feb. 8), “Residuals” re-entered at No. 40 on the Hot 100, following the premiere of its official music video. It’s a new peak for the Eric Hudson and Blaq Tuxedo-produced record. The track first debuted on the Hot 100 in August 2024, shortly after he concluded The 11:11 Tour.
Elsewhere on Billboard, “Residuals” is No. 1 on the R&B Digital Song Sales, No. 3 on Hot R&B Songs and No. 15 on the Adult R&B Airplay charts.
The song previously topped Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay and Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts in late 2024.
Around that time, Brown collected 18 RIAA awards, including a diamond certification for “No Guidance” with Drake. The 2019 collaboration is certified 11x platinum, with 11 million equivalent units sold. It’s Brown’s best-selling single to date.
Circling back to “Residuals,” musical duo Blaq Tuxedo exclusively told Rated R&B about the song’s creation. “‘Residuals’ was supposed to be on the Breezy album,” revealed Darius Logan.
“That was the first song that kicked off the album. He records a lot of songs, so it kind of got buried. We ended up doing ‘Iffy.’ We created that song the same week and he rode with that, which was a blessing. Fast forward, [‘Residuals’] comes back around…”
Dominique Logan chimed in, “We were playing it at a party and he called the next morning like, ‘Yo, I’m putting this on the album.’ He wanted to put it on [Breezy], but it didn’t fit the mood of that music, so the timing was right.”
Regarding the song’s sonic inspiration, Dominique shared, “Prince kind of inspired that song. The chords, when it starts, it was like, ‘Man, it’s Prince stuff.’ Then once we put the bridge on there and the Prince-sounding drums on there, it was like, ‘Oh yeah!'”
Stream “Residuals” by Chris Brown below.
