{"id":807858,"date":"2020-05-28T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/simple-plans-im-just-a-kid-has-been-certified-platinum-in-the-us"},"modified":"2020-05-28T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:27:00","slug":"simple-plans-im-just-a-kid-has-been-certified-platinum-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/simple-plans-im-just-a-kid-has-been-certified-platinum-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Plan\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m Just A Kid\u2019 Has Been Certified Platinum In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>An absolute classic reaching a massive milestone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/simpleplan_imjustakid.jpg\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simple Plan&#8217;s classic tune &#8216;I&#8217;m Just A Kid&#8217; has been certified Platinum in the US, 18 years after its release.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the equivalent of 1 million sales, which is absolutely huge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The song, that was actually the band&#8217;s debut single, has become a viral sensation over on TikTok with people trying to recreate old photos with the song as the soundtrack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears on the band&#8217;s debut album &#8216;No Pads, No Helmets&#8230;Just Balls&#8217; which was certified Double Platinum back in 2005. That&#8217;s the equivalent of 2 million sales, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the video remains just as iconic all these years later:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_GOR5gvQwDI\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s frontman Pierre Bouvier performing the song as part of our Shower Sessions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kb6t-Pl0lOs\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lovely stuff!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like the look of this Simple Plan tee? It&#8217;s available from our mates at Impericon right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impericon.com\/uk\/simple-plan-college-t-shirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/simpleplan_college_lg.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/simple-plans-im-just-a-kid-has-been-certified-platinum-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An absolute classic reaching a massive milestone. Simple Plan&#8217;s classic tune &#8216;I&#8217;m Just A Kid&#8217; has been certified Platinum in the US, 18 years after its release. That&#8217;s the equivalent of 1 million sales, which is absolutely huge.&nbsp; The song, that was actually the band&#8217;s debut single, has become a viral sensation over on TikTok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 03:16:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}