{"id":2315,"date":"2024-11-29T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/lee-greenwoods-god-bless-the-u-s-a-has-been-certified-2x-platinum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:03:04","slug":"lee-greenwoods-god-bless-the-u-s-a-has-been-certified-2x-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/lee-greenwoods-god-bless-the-u-s-a-has-been-certified-2x-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The U.S.A.” Has Been Certified 2x Platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is still a good tune – even as we still believe that “truth matters and character counts” still holds for all professing Christians – especially for our President-elect!<\/p>\n

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Lee Greenwood\u2019s \u201cGod Bless The U.S.A.\u201d Has Been Certified 2x Platinum on Nov 07, 2024<\/p>\n

\"Lee\u201cGod Bless The U.S.A.\u201d Proves Its Status As A Timeless Song Lee Greenwood\u2019s iconic patriotic hit, \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.,\u201d has been certified 2x Platinum\u2026exactly 40 years after its release. Greenwood wrote \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d entirely on his own. He released the track as a single in 1984, and it reached the 7th spot on the Hot Country Songs chart. \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d reentered the chart in 2001 following the 9\/11 attacks. It peaked at the 16th spot and claimed the same position on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 . The song made another chart appearance in 2020, reaching the #1 spot on the U.S. Digital Songs Sales chart. \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d has experienced a resurgence in popularity in 2024, surely due to its use throughout Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign. Greenwood performed the song at multiple events, including the RNC. He also sang upon Trump\u2019s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of his first assassination attempt.<\/p>\n

Lee Greenwood\u2019s \u201cGod Bless The U.S.A\u201d Earns 2x Platnium Certification From The RIAA Now, shortly after Trump was elected as the 47th President of the United States, Greenwood\u2019s \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d has reached an incredible milestone. On Thursday (November 7), the RIAA certified the song 2x Platinum. A single must sell a total of 1 million units to be certified Platinum. Each subsequent Platinum certification is issued every time a single sells an additional 1 million units. The RIAA states, \u201cEach permanent digital download counts as 1 Unit for certification purposes. 150 on-demand audio and\/or video streams will count as 1 Unit for certification purposes.\u201d \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d earned its first Platinum certification in 2015. Now, as Greenwood celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song\u2019s release, it is 2x Platinum. Greenwood recently released a rock version of \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d with singer Drew Jacobs. The duo\u2019s remake was an immediate success, claiming the #1 spot on the iTunes Rock chart. At the time of this writing, the song still sits at #1 on the iTunes Rock chart and also tops the all-genre iTunes chart. Greenwood\u2019s original rendition of \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d sits at #5 on the all-genre iTunes chart. Watch Greenwood and Jacobs perform the rock version of \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d in the video below.<\/p>\n

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This is still a good tune – even as we still believe that “truth matters and character counts” still holds for all professing Christians – especially for our President-elect! Lee Greenwood\u2019s \u201cGod Bless The U.S.A.\u201d Has Been Certified 2x Platinum on Nov 07, 2024 \u201cGod Bless The U.S.A.\u201d Proves Its Status As A Timeless Song […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-Bl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Lee-Greenwoods-God-Bless-The-U.S.A.-Has-Been-Certified-2x-Platinum.png?fit=1200%2C620","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}