Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” has gone platinum.
The Recording Industry Association of America announced on Thursday that the track by Donald Glover’s rap persona has been certified platinum. Since its May 7 release, “This Is America” has reeled in more than 147 million track streams and 216 million video streams, along with over 1.3 million track equivalents sold in the U.S. and 2.6 million track equivalents sold worldwide.
Childish Gambino debuted the song during his stint hosting and performing on “Saturday Night Live,” and it quickly rose to the top on Spotify’s global and U.S. charts, and reached No. 1 on iTunes in 45 markets. Additionally, the track continues to hold the No. 1 spot on the overall streaming chart for three weeks in a row.
The Hiro Murai-directed video is currently No. 1 on YouTube’s U.S. top music videos and U.S. top songs charts, and had the biggest first-week debut of any video this year, with 85.3 million views. Filmed in a large warehouse, the video features a shirtless Glover dancing during scenes that alternate between humorous and disturbing, including one where he pulls out an assault rifle and shoots both a hooded captive and a gospel choir.
“This Is America” has been praised for its cultural relevance, and marks the first new music from Childish Gambino since his Grammy-nominated album “Awaken, My Love!” in 2016. The rapper recently left Glassnote Records for RCA and is expected to release a new album later this year.
With a tour, a new record deal, a new video and two brand-new songs performed on “Saturday Night Live,” it looks like Childish Gambino’s forthcoming forth album may be arriving sooner than later. Gambino — a.k.a. Donald Glover — turned his appearance on the show into a multi-faceted promotional vehicle, serving as both host and musical guest and appearing in nearly every skit on the show (including a mock-horror sketch about Kanye West’s tweets and another in which a rap trio styled on Migos — who, in another connection, have appeared on Glover’s popular television show “Atlanta” — are in a therapy session.
The photo of Glover that appeared directly before he performed his new song “Saturday” was clearly styled on the cover of Stevie Wonder’s 1971 album “Music of My Mind,” and that reference was likely no accident: The combines a Caribbean feel with a strong early-‘70s vibe reminiscent of Wonder songs like “Boogie on Reggae Woman” and “Golden Lady.” He was introduced by Zoe Kravitz — Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet’s daughter — who then joined a group of partying people surrounding Glover and his band, who sipped drinks from red plastic cups, danced and played dominos. The song concluded with a heavy percussion breakdown while Glover danced.
Later in the show he performed another new song, “This Is America,” for which he dropped a politically-tinged new video directed by Hiro Murai (who has worked on previous Gambino videos and also directed several episodes of “Atlanta”). Filmed in a large warehouse, the video features a shirtless Glover dancing comically between scenes that alternate between humorous (his dancing and facial expressions) and disturbing (he pulls out an assault rifle and shoots both a hooded captive and, apparently, a gospel choir). In the video’s closing moments, SZA (or someone who looks an awful lot like her) makes an appearance, sitting on a car and looking briefly at the camera.
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Glover recently left Glassnote Records for RCA and is expected to release a new album later this year. He will head out on tour in the fall with special guests Rae Sremmurd and Vince Staples; he is also performing at a new installment of his elaborate Pharos festival in New Zealand in November. Glover has said that the next Childish Gambino album he releases will be his last, explaining, “I think endings are good because they force things to get better.”
Childish Gambino has embarked on his final tour, Donald Glover stated during a performance last night (Sept. 6) at the Infinite Energy Arena in Atlanta.
'Number one, if you're at this show, then you know this is the last Gambino tour ever,' he told the crowd, according to fan video. 'I love you forever for supporting me and coming out for this shit.'
The gig was the first installment on Gambino's This Is America Tour announced in March. Rae Sremmurd join as guest artists for a 14-show run across the United States and Canada wrapping on Sept. 30, after which Vince Staples will open five additional Gambino shows in October.
The rapper, actor, writer and producer hinted near the end of his 2017 Governor's Ball set last June—six months after the release of Awaken, My Love—that he would retire Childish Gambino. 'I'll see you for the last Gambino album,' he said.
Given Glover signed a record deal with RCA in January, plus his recurring emphasis on the 'Gambino' part of his goodbyes, many fans speculate he will continue recording music under his legal name.
Under the moniker famously produced by an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator, Gambino has officially released three songs this year: the chart-topping 'This Is America' and the 'Summer Pack' singles 'Summertime Magic' and 'Feels Like Summer.' The latter track recently received an animated music video.
Gambino this week also emailed two songs titled 'Algorhythm' and 'All Night' to people who purchased tickets to the tour. 'These songs are not complete, but it is important for u to be familiar with them in order to participate, and therefore fully enjoy the experience,' he reportedly wrote.
You can watch footage of Childish Gambino's Sept. 6 performance in Atlanta below.
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Over the weekend, Childish Gambino held his Summertime Starts Here pop-ups in New York, Los Angeles and London. As an added bonus for those who attended, the rapper offered fans the chance to purchase an alternate edition of his 2016 Grammy-nominated album, Awaken, My Love.
The new version of the project features the same photo of model Giannina Oteto wearing a white beaded headdress but features the album's original title, Operation Highjump. Photographer and Atlanta writer Ibra Ake shared a video of the three different covers on Instagram, which feature Operation Highjump written in 1960s and 1970s-esque album fonts.
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'We changed the name to 'awaken my love' last minute,' Ake revealed on Instagram. 'Before that we called the album a different name and it was gonna look like this. pick yous up at lovebox today.'
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While fans wait for Gambino's next album, the 'This Is America' rapper recently released a two-song project featuring the songs 'Summertime Magic' and 'Feels Like Summer.' Produced by Ludwig Goransson, the summer-infused songs feature laid back instrumentals mixed with Gambino's smooth crooning.
Up next for Gambino, the Atlanta star has been added to the 2018 iHeartRadioMusic Festival lineup and will be performing at the Sept. 21 and Sept. 22 event. The festival will be held at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and also includes performances by Rae Sremmurd and Logic. Tickets are on sale now. Binary data file.
Check out the alternate edition of Awaken, My Love below.
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