Creedence Clearwater Revival Scores Several New Platinum Hits
Creedence Clearwater Revival earns new RIAA certifications, including platinum upgrades for 'Green ... More River' and 'Born on the Bayou' and first-time gold wins for three classics. UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Creedence Clearwater Revival Photo by MichaelCreedence Clearwater Revival is one of perhaps dozens of legacy musical acts that remain on the Billboard charts week after week after week. The group hasn't released new music in decades, but the albums and singles the musicians left behind remain popular enough to continually rack up streams and sales throughout the United States. All that consumption doesn't only help the rock outfit remain on important tallies in America, but also allows it to continually collect new platinum and gold singles and albums.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has bestowed several new awards on Creedence Clearwater Revival's catalog, with multiple smashes earning certifications – some for the first time.
Two of Creedence Clearwater Revival's beloved tracks, 'Green River' and 'Born on the Bayou,' move from gold to platinum status. Songs and albums in the U.S. are certified gold after reaching 500,000 equivalent units between streams and sales, and they move up to platinum when they've shifted one million.
"Green River" first went gold in 1990, so it waited 35 years to double its sum. "Born on the Bayou" needed less than a decade to reach the same milestone.
Three other Creedence Clearwater Revival tracks become gold-certified wins for the first time. "Travelin' Band," "Lodi," and "Midnight Special" all earn their initial certifications from the RIAA this week, as they've officially moved half a million units.
These new honors mark the first certifications for Creedence Clearwater Revival since September 2023. That month, the group's Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits advanced from diamond — awarded at 10 million units — to 12-times platinum status.
Some of the newly-certified tracks rank among Creedence Clearwater Revival's highest-charting releases on the Hot 100. Both "Green River," taken from the album of the same name, and "Travelin' Band," which appears on Cosmo's Factory, stalled in the runner-up spot on the ranking of the most consumed tracks in the U.S.
Despite releasing generation-defining smashes, Creedence Clearwater Revival never reached No. 1 on the Hot 100, but at least seven of its tunes peaked at No. 2. "Lodi" rose as high as No. 52, while both "Midnight Special" and "Born on the Bayou" never made it to the Hot 100, but it looks like they have managed to stand the test of time.
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