{"id":153008,"date":"2025-11-27T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153008"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:06:36","slug":"twice-becomes-the-first-kpop-girl-group-to-go-platinum-in-the-u-s-with-a-non-collaboration-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/twice-becomes-the-first-kpop-girl-group-to-go-platinum-in-the-u-s-with-a-non-collaboration-song\/","title":{"rendered":"TWICE Becomes the first Kpop girl group to go platinum in the U.S. with a non-collaboration song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TWICE<\/strong> has been making huge waves in the United States since the release of the iconic animated film, <em>\u201cKpop Demon Hunters.\u201d<\/em> The girls released special versions sung by them for the film, which contributed to their popularity in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>On November 26, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) made a special announcement for TWICE. The 2024 hit, <strong><em>\u201cStrategy\u201d,<\/em><\/strong> earned an o<strong>fficial platinum certification<\/strong> for over 1 million units sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sz_wWzgh-vQ&amp;list=RDSz_wWzgh-vQ&amp;start_radio=1\" title=\"TWICE \u201cStrategy (feat. Megan Thee Stallion)\u201d M\/V\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sz_wWzgh-vQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new certifications grant TWICE the title o<strong>f the first Kpop girl group in RIAA history to earn a platinum certification for a non-collab single<\/strong>. Even including collaborations, \u201cStrategy\u201d becomes the second single by a Kpop group to earn the certification, following League of Legends\u2019 virtual group, K\/DA\u2019s 2018 hit, <em>\u201cPOP\/STARS.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWICE has been making huge waves in the United States since the release of the iconic animated film, \u201cKpop Demon Hunters.\u201d The girls released special versions sung by them for the film, which contributed to their popularity in the territory. On November 26, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) made a special announcement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":153009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1353,2264,16],"tags":[62],"class_list":{"0":"post-153008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charts","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-twice"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}