Text DFW to 24042 to join 97.9 The Beat’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions) Follow The Beat On Twitter:  Check out the West coast blue team banger BlueFace Baby, celebrating his latest accomplishment. Thotiana turned out to be bigger than he thought based off the dance moves.

Follow The Beat On Twitter: The 20 year old Florida native Kodaq Black, may have made more than just a hit record. As of February 22nd according to the RIAA Website “Roll in Peace” went certified platinum. He has even inspired the vocalist to take a swing at it. Up and coming artist Layton Greene […]

Follow The Beat On Twitter: Congrats to Texas very own Khalid, who’s smash single “Location” has been certified platinum.   Watch the “Location” music video below. Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

Can we say…“Sit Down, Be Humble”   It took less than 3 weeks for “DAMN.” to sell 1 million units. Kendrick Lamar’s fourth studio album DAMN. has been certified platinum. The album sold 603,000 units in its first week, the highest first week total of any 2017 album to date, and sold 238,000 in its second week. […]

Follow The Beat On Twitter: Back like he never left…Big Sean’s “Bounce Back” Certified Double Platinum This week Big Sean has hit another milestone with “Bounce Back.”  

The RIAA has announced that Drake‘s VIEWS is certified 4x platinum based off albums sales and streams.  Congrats to Drizzy!

Fat Joe & Remy Ma have been missing in action for a while now, with Remy Ma serving time in prison for six years. Fat Joe also disappeared from the public eye shortly after garnering a lot of success from his work with the Terror Squad. Sign Up For Our Newsletter![sailthru_widgetfields=”email” sailthru_list=”Rickey Smiley Subscribers”] In […]

Young Thug’s gets his first platinum single with “Best Friend,” which was officially released last November. RIAA has now confirmed that his Slime Season track “Best Friend” has moved 1,000,000 copies. “Best Friend” was released on September 14 of last year as a video.

  It took “Views” six weeks to sell 2 million records. Drake‘s VIEWS has officially been certified double platinum by the RIAA. It only took the album one week to sell one million records. It took six weeks to sell two million. Drake’s domination of the charts is been absolute. As he happily pointed out on Instagram, “One Dance” has […]

Beyoncé's sixth studio album, Lemonade, is now certified platinum.

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Rihanna is back on the road to complete domination. Her latest achievement came yesterday when the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) tweeted Rihanna has become the ‘1st artist in Gold & Platinum history to earn 100M song awards & #ANTI is #Platinum.’ The tweet includes a pic of Riri with her plaques. She cosigned the announcement […]