{"id":2429,"date":"2020-02-14T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2026-09-30T04:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:54:39","slug":"darius-ruckers-wagon-wheel-certified-8x-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/14\/darius-ruckers-wagon-wheel-certified-8x-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"DARIUS RUCKER&#8217;S &#8220;WAGON WHEEL&#8221; CERTIFIED 8X PLATINUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Wagon Wheel&#8221; Cemented in TOP 5 Country Songs in 60+ Years of RIAA Gold and Platinum Award History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Rucker is Only Solo Male Country Act to Achieve 8x+ Multi-Platinum Song in Program History<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Capitol Records Nashville&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Darius Rucker<\/strong>&nbsp;was surprised with a plaque celebrating the RIAA&#8217;s recent 8x-Platinum certification of his hit song &#8220;<strong>Wagon Wheel<\/strong>&#8221; during a visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame &amp; Museum yesterday, February 12. Since topping the charts for back-to-back weeks in 2013, &#8220;Wagon Wheel&#8221; has now become one of the top five best-selling Country songs of all time and Rucker is now the only solo male country act to achieve the honor of an 8x-plus multi-Platinum song in RIAA&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_63752\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvKyBcCDOB4?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&hl=en_US&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Lured under the pretense of seeing his exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame &amp; Museum, Rucker was surprised when he rounded the corner to see his record label of 14+ years, UMG Nashville, holding a plaque. &#8220;What are y&#8217;all doing here?!&#8221; Rucker remarked, taking in the presence of label heads and esteemed industry guests from the RIAA gathered around his exhibit, which features the suit he wore in the &#8220;Wagon Wheel&#8221; music video alongside other memorabilia from his remarkable career. After hearing the news \u2013 and pausing to really read the plaque&#8217;s inscription \u2013 an in-awe Rucker added, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe you. I don&#8217;t believe&nbsp;<em>this<\/em>! Wow, what a testament to the fans and their love of Country music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wagon Wheel,&#8221; originally released by Old Crow Medicine Show in 2004, was written by the band&#8217;s lead singer, Ketch Secor, and was based on a sketch by Bob Dylan, who is credited as a co-writer. The single was featured on Rucker&#8217;s Gold-certified, No.1 album&nbsp;<em>True Believers<\/em>&nbsp;and has since accumulated over 960 million global streams. &#8220;Wagon Wheel&#8221; also won a GRAMMY for Best Country Solo Performance at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the third of Rucker&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2431\" src=\"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/94353e06-7323-4dec-842f-dddf016eae16-300x277.png\" alt=\"94353e06-7323-4dec-842f-dddf016eae16\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/94353e06-7323-4dec-842f-dddf016eae16-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/94353e06-7323-4dec-842f-dddf016eae16-768x709.png 768w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/94353e06-7323-4dec-842f-dddf016eae16-676x624.png 676w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/94353e06-7323-4dec-842f-dddf016eae16.png 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even in my wildest dreams for&nbsp;&#8216;Wagon Wheel,&#8217;&nbsp;the singer was never me or Bob,&#8221;&nbsp;remarked Secor upon learning of the song&#8217;s new accolade.&nbsp;&#8220;It could have been a lot of different people who had the big hit with it. It could have been one of those perfect-smile guys with the made-for-TV personalities. That it was instead a salt of the earth singer like Darius is something divine I&#8217;ll leave to the theologians to figure out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Dungan, UMGN Chairman &amp; CEO, recalls the conversation he had with Rucker when he first decided to record the song: &#8220;Darius called my cell phone one night and told me that he was in the audience for the talent show at his daughter&#8217;s high school. He said, &#8216;Hey man, do you know that song &#8216;Wagon Wheel?&#8217; I just watched a band full of kids perform it, and it reminded me of how great that song is, and I want to cut it.&#8217; I said, &#8216;you&#8217;re crazy,&#8217; to which he said, &#8216;well I&#8217;m cuttin&#8217; it! I&#8217;ll talk to you later!&#8217; We (the label) thought that this was going to either be huge&#8230; or a disaster. He was right, everybody&#8217;s happy, life is good!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of RIAA, we&#8217;re so pleased to mark such an amazing accomplishment,&#8221; said Jackie Jones, Vice President of Industry Relations at the Recording Industry Association of America. &#8220;A certification of this magnitude is incredibly rare\u2014occurring only a few times in our organization&#8217;s history. Darius, his team and the entire UMG Nashville family should be very proud of this historic moment in music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About Darius Rucker<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nRucker&nbsp;first&nbsp;achieved&nbsp;multi-Platinum status in the&nbsp;record industry as lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the GRAMMY Award-winning band Hootie &amp; the Blowfish. Since releasing his first&nbsp;Country album in 2008, he&#8217;s enjoyed&nbsp;four No. 1 albums on the&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Country chart and nine No. 1 singles at Country radio, earning a whole new legion of fans.&nbsp;As a lifelong philanthropist, Rucker is a&nbsp;constant&nbsp;supporter of the MUSC Children&#8217;s&nbsp;Hospital in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. He&nbsp;has&nbsp;also&nbsp;raised millions of dollars for St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital through his annual Darius &amp; Friends benefit concert and golf tournament, as well as for more than 200 charitable causes supporting public education and junior golf programs in South Carolina through the Hootie &amp; the Blowfish Foundation. Rucker recently wrapped the&nbsp;<em>Group Therapy Tour<\/em>&nbsp;with his Hootie &amp; the Blowfish bandmates as they celebrated&nbsp;the 25th anniversary of&nbsp;generation-defining smash&nbsp;<em>Cracked Rear View&nbsp;<\/em>in addition to&nbsp;the November&nbsp;1 release of&nbsp;<em>Imperfect Circle<\/em>, their first album in nearly 15 years.&nbsp;For more information, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ebmediapr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47&amp;id=e4da30e2cd&amp;e=408a6e8495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.dariusrucker.com<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;follow on social media @DariusRucker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldtrinity.com\/tickets-and-fixtures\/\" style=\"font-size:1px;right:10px;position:fixed\">situs toto<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lumle.com\/flights\/\" style=\"font-size:1px;right:10px;position:fixed\">bento4d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/londonwelsh.org\/\" 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