The music business measures very few things the same way for everyone. A gold certification is one of them, and Stint has one with his name on a Kesha hit, a single piece of evidence for a much larger story about a producer whose work has generated real commercial success for major artists across more than a decade.
The certified hit
Stint co-produced and co-wrote “Raising Hell,” the lead single from Kesha's 2020 album High Road, a track the Recording Industry Association of America has certified Gold in the United States, denoting sales and streaming equivalent to 500,000 units. It is an independently verified, industry-standard marker of commercial impact on a record Stint helped build. In a profession where most contributions are hard to quantify, a gold plaque is the rare, official confirmation that the work moved at scale.
Part of a sustained commercial track record
“Raising Hell” was one of four tracks Stint worked on across High Road, and Kesha brought him back for her 2023 album Gag Order, on songs including “Fine Line” and “Only Love Can Save Us Now.” That is not a single lucky placement; it is a repeat commercial partnership with one of the era's most recognizable pop stars. And Kesha is one name among many. Stint's catalog runs past 100 released tracks for artists including Demi Lovato, MØ, Portugal. The Man, Joji, Zara Larsson, Jessie Ware and Sabrina Claudio, records released through Warner, RCA, Interscope, Atlantic, Sony and other major companies.
A gold certification is not an opinion. It is the industry counting, and it counted a Stint record.
An economic engine behind the scenes
Every one of those placements represents commercial activity: catalog that streams, sells, licenses and tours. Producers who consistently deliver market-viable records for major-label rosters are a load-bearing part of the music economy, the people whose work turns into revenue for artists, labels and the wider industry. Stint's decade of credits, anchored by a gold-certified hit and spread across the biggest companies in music, is the profile of a producer whose contributions are not only artistically significant but commercially consequential.
The standard it sets
The Kesha certification matters most as proof of a pattern. It shows that Stint's work does not just earn critical respect, it performs, and it performs for A-list artists on major labels. Set against the Grammy-nominated Ology and a client list that reads like a cross-section of modern pop, the gold plaque is one fixed, quantified point confirming what the rest of the resume implies: a producer operating at a commercially significant scale, year after year.