Rod Wave is having fun with his well-deserved stardom, for which he continues to be rewarded. And a brand new reward has simply popped up.
On Friday (November 17), the Recording Trade Affiliation of America (RIAA) revealed that the 25-year-old singer’s newest album has moved half one million models.
Having reached 500,000-plus album gross sales and equal streams, the Floridian’s fifth full-length launch has now been licensed gold.
Nostalgia was launched on September 15 of this yr to important acclaim. The 18-track LP, which options visitor contributions from Moist, 21 Savage, and Sadie Jean, made it to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
On the extra disagreeable aspect of issues, Rod Wave’s D.C. live performance final weekend was stricken by a number of automobile break-ins. Although preliminary experiences recommended that greater than 200 vehicles had been focused within the mid-November spree, a spokesperson for the D.C. Metropolitan Police Division (MPD) advised NewsOne that the precise quantity was “roughly 10.”
Quite a lot of these experiences got here from in and across the Capital One Enviornment, which is the place the “Boyz Don’t Cry” singer was performing, however no arrests have been made up to now.
This isn’t the primary time {that a} Rod Wave live performance has made headlines. Final month, a video captured on the Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment in Nebraska caught him performing a daredevil stunt as his set got here to a detailed.
The singer might be seen climbing to a excessive ledge with the usage of a stepstool after which tossing his mic away. He then turned his again to the group, stretched out his arms and took a backward fall right into a pile of smoke as he appeared to vanish.
The soul-trap originator is understood for falling by means of the stage throughout his reveals, although this wasn’t at all times part of his act. In 2020, he was set to carry out at Morris Brown Faculty on Halloween. Seconds after he took the stage on the Traditionally Black Faculty and College, the stage buckled and collapsed, prompting him to stumble as others behind him fell within the newly created crater.