Vybz Kartel's 'Fever' Goes Double Platinum in Canada — His First Certification in the Country
Vybz Kartel's 2016 single "Fever" has passed 160,000 units in Canada to earn Double Platinum from Music Canada — his first-ever Canadian certification, skipping straight past Gold and Platinum. The milestone follows his first UK Gold for the same song on July 3, 2026 (400,000+ units), a UK Silver in February 2023 and RIAA Gold in February 2020. Released on 'King of the Dancehall' while Kartel was behind bars, the decade-old song's video has now passed 100 million YouTube views, and its Canadian success follows a sold-out Scotiabank Arena show in Toronto last year.
(ReggaeVibeMedia.com) — Vybz Kartel's "Fever" has gone Double Platinum in Canada, passing 160,000 units to earn the Worl' Boss his first-ever Canadian certification — and he skipped straight past Gold and Platinum to get there.
Music Canada confirmed the milestone on November 5, 2026, a full decade after "Fever" first hit the streets in June 2016 on 'King of the Dancehall.' The song's Canadian plaque follows a busy stretch of certifications overseas: "Fever" earned Kartel his first UK Gold on July 3, 2026, after passing 400,000 units according to the British Phonographic Industry, having already picked up a UK Silver back in February 2023. In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America certified "Fever" Gold in February 2020.
The timing says a lot about how the record has aged. This is not a fresh release riding a launch-week push. It is a song that kept quietly piling up streams year after year until the numbers caught up with the reputation — and the video has now pulled in more than 100 million views on YouTube.
Canada makes sense as the place for this milestone. Toronto holds one of the largest Caribbean communities outside the region, and dancehall has been woven into the city's sound and slang for decades. Kartel saw that support up close when he played a sold-out show at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto last year. Those crowds are not just buying tickets — they are the same listeners keeping "Fever" in rotation on playlists and at parties.
The song's journey is tied to Kartel's own. "Fever" arrived on an album released while he was still behind bars in Jamaica, after his arrest in 2011 and conviction in 2014. For years his catalogue kept moving without him being able to tour or promote it in person. That changed in 2024, when the Privy Council overturned his conviction and he walked free that summer — and the record that had been carrying his name abroad during those years suddenly had its artist back in the picture.
With Gold in the US and the UK and now Double Platinum in Canada, the obvious question is which market moves next. "Fever" is still climbing, and Kartel's wider catalogue is getting a fresh look from audiences who are only now catching up.