Before Summer Walker’s CLEAR 2: Soft Life EP drops later this week, the singer receives 33 new awards from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Walker’s 2018 single “Girls Need Love” is now certified 5x multi-platinum with more than five million copies sold.
The breakout song is Walker’s best-selling single and holds the title as the most certified-song release from her debut project, Last Day of Summer, which just topped the gold mark for sales, surpassing 500,000 equivalent units sold.
Walker’s other Last Day of Summer platinum awards include: “Deep” (platinum); “CPR” (platinum); and “Karma” (platinum).
The latter track became a sleeper hit, thanks to a TikTok boost last summer. “Karma” is No. 3 at urban radio at the time of publication.
“Playing Games,” the lead single from Walker’s 2019 debut album, Over It, is now 4x multi-platinum.
The song marked her first Hot 100 entry in September 2019, eventually peaking at No. 16 a month later. It also earned Walker a top 10 hit among several R&B/hip-hop-centric charts.
Walker’s first album, Over It, last certified at platinum in May 2020, has been upped to 2x multi-platinum. It’s Walker’s highest-selling project to date.
Here are the other new certifications for the Over It album:
- “I’ll Kill You” feat. Jhené Aiko, 2x multi-platinum (2 million copies sold)
- “Come Thru“ feat. Usher, 2x multi-platinum (2 million copies sold)
- “Tonight,” platinum (1 million copies sold)
- “Body,” platinum (1 million copies sold)
- “Stretch You Out“ feat. A Boogie wit da Hoodie, platinum (1 million copies sold)
- “Just Might,” platinum (1 million copies sold)
- “Anna Mae,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Drunk Dialing…LODT,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Like It” feat. 6LACK, gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Nobody Else,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Off of You,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Potential,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Fun Girl,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Over It,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Me,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
Walker’s sophomore LP, Still Over It, has been certified gold. The album was released in November 2021 and became the first R&B album by a woman to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Solange’s A Seat at the Table.
Still Over It racked up a total of six fresh single sales certifications that include the following:
- “No Love” feat. SZA, platinum (1 million copies sold)
- “Ex For A Reason” feat. JT of City Girls, gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Insane,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Constant Bullsh*t,” gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Unloyal” with Ari Lennox, gold (500,000 copies sold)
- “Toxic” feat. Lil Durk, gold (500,000 copies sold)
Walker extended the SZA collaboration “No Love” with an intro verse from rapper Cardi B in March 2022. She later scored her second No. 1 on R&B radio and Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart with the song “Unloyal” featuring Lennox.
“My Affection” with PARTYNEXTDOOR and “White Tee” with NO1-NOAH are newly gold certified. Both tracks appear on Walker’s Life On Earth EP, released in July 2020.
Walker gained a platinum award for her debut song, “Session 32,” released in 2018. She also scored a gold certification for her 2019 standalone single “Something Real” featuring Chris Brown and London On Da Track.
As mentioned above, Walker is gearing up to release her CLEAR 2: Soft Life EP on May 19 via LVRN/Interscope Records. The EP’s official tracklist includes a guest contribution from Childish Gambino and production credits from Solange, Steve Lacy and John Kirby.
CLEAR 2 is the sequel to CLEAR, which arrived three months after her debut project, Last Day of Summer.
