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title: Beyonce's 'Lemonade' Goes Platinum
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![Beyonce "The Formation World Tour" - Chicago](https://img.money.com/2016/06/gettyimages-534795298.jpg)
*Entertainer Beyonce on stage during "The Formation World Tour" at Soldier Field on May 27, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois.*

Beyonce's album *Lemonade* became the singer's sixth album to go platinum, the Recording Industry Association of America announced Wednesday.

"#LEMONADE is Platinum, @Beyonce! Congratulations!," the RIAA announced in a [Tweet](https://twitter.com/RIAA/status/740557360221949952) on Wednesday.

After coming in an #1 on the *Billboard* Top 200 chart, *Lemonade* hit the one-million mark less than two months after its April 23 release. The RIAA [began including](http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10888364/gold-platinum-albums-count-streaming-riaa-change) streams in its count earlier this year, counting 1,500 audio or video streams as equivalent to an album sale, but *Billboard* said most Beyonce fans are outright buying *Lemonade*.

***Read More: [Beyonce Follows Lemonade With Watermelon Investment](https://money.com/beyonce-watermelon-juice-investment/)***

In the album's first week, "It sold 653,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music. Pure album sales comprised 485,000 of that," [*Billboard*](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7350372/beyonce-earns-sixth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-lemonade) said. *Lemonade* topped units and sales in the first week of its release.

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