I'm still not here for the streaming addition to RIAA certifications, but she can get a pass because she actually SOLD 2M+ copies at $15.99 - 80,000 within the first 3 hours.
Well for it to be certified Columbia or Bey/Parkwood would have to get off up their asses and pay the certification fee, which seems to be impossible on their part
Wait how? DIL sold 1.9m, Partition ~1m, and the rest let's say another 1m.
That's around 4m. which is extra 400k.
2.3 + .4 = 2.7k with TEA
Now that means it needs 1.3m in SEA. That's literally 1.95B in streams.
1. BEYONCE doesn't even have that amount WW I think and 2. It's only U.S