{"id":20481,"date":"2017-05-05T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=20481"},"modified":"2017-05-05T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:05:16","slug":"kendrick-lamars-damn-goes-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=20481","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s DAMN. Goes Platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15172 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kendrick_reebok.png?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kendrick_reebok.png?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kendrick_reebok.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Congrats to Kendrick Lamar. His latest album <strong>DAMN.<\/strong> has just gone platinum. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>DAMN., which was just released last month, spent two weeks (so far) at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and dominated the Billboard Hot 100 with the single &#8220;Humble,&#8221; which hit No. 1 last week. Now the hip-hop innovator has even more to celebrate: His latest LP has been certified platinum by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick\u2019s label, Interscope Records, posted the platinum announcement on social media &#8212; which means Damn. has earned 1 million equivalent album units &#8212; along with a clear message: \u201cDamn. Is now PLATINUM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAMN. has had the biggest week for an album of 2017 (so far), earning 603,000 equivalent album units in its first week. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Congrats to Kendrick Lamar. His latest album DAMN. has just gone platinum.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[676,807],"class_list":["post-20481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-5kl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kendrick_DAMN_full_ohsodj.jpeg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20482,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions\/20482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}