Gotye, Nicki Minaj Among Big Names Scoring Platinum Records in June

11:46 AM PDT 7/12/2012 by Erik Pedersen

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The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas set an all-time mark, Carrie Underwood scores a fourth gold album, and Eric Church and Florence + The Machine join the million-seller club.

June was a record month for RIAA gold and platinum certifications, and chances are even the most casual music fan would recognize the top honorees.

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The Black Eyed Peas become the first group to have a digital single go eight times platinum with “I Gotta Feeling.” Their 22 million career certified d-singles are the most of any group.

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Meanwhile, Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” which spent eight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 this year, becomes the fastest digital song to reach quintuple-platinum status, selling 5 million downloads in less than six months of release.

A pair of female pop megastars also mined heavy metal with their albums in June. Nicki Minaj scored her second platinum platter with Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, and Carrie Underwood struck gold with Blown Away. It’s the 2005 American Idol winner’s fourth gold album.

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Fans of the late Whitney Houston continue to snap up her albums. Whitney: The Greatest Hits reached the five-times-platinum level. That brings her combined U.S. album count past 57 million, moving her past Van Halen to become the 19th-biggest-selling act of all time in the U.S.

Elsewhere, a pair of rising acts scored their first platinum album as Florence + The Machine’s 2009 debut Lungs – which earned the group a best new artist Grammy nomination -- and Eric Church’s 2011 third disc Chief hit the mark. Church’s “Springsteen,” a No. 1 country single that crossed over to the pop Top 20, also was certified platinum.

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In all, the RIAA certified 61 digital singles and 12 albums as gold or platinum during June.z

Watch a live version of "I Gotta Feeling" below.