Which Aretha Franklin studio album was her first and only RIAA platinum-certified studio album?

Aretha Franklin’s first and only RIAA platinum-certified studio album was Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Released by Arista Records on July 9, 1985, it marked a major commercial revival after a quieter period in her career.

Franklin worked mainly with producer Narada Michael Walden, pursuing a younger, more contemporary sound influenced by dance-pop, synth-pop, and modern R&B. The album became her highest-charting release since Young, Gifted and Black, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard 200.

Its platinum certification reflected distribution of more than one million copies in the United States. The album’s biggest hit, “Freeway of Love,” spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and won Franklin a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.

A common mix-up is Lady Soul, one of Franklin’s most celebrated 1960s albums, or Jump to It, her previous major Arista comeback. Neither was her first and only RIAA-platinum studio album; that distinction belongs to Who’s Zoomin’ Who?.