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The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA. The albums released prior ...
A Gold record is a song or album that sells 500,000 units (records, tapes, and compact discs). The award was launched in 1958; [5] originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1 million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). [6]
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Diamond has sold 49.5 million albums in the United States. [ 4 ] Diamond is the only artist to score a top 20 hit in each decade since the creation of Billboard ' s Adult Contemporary chart .
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) ' s billboard for its 50th anniversary.An early example of an expensive album. The following is a list of the most expensive albums made with a recorded sum of over $1 million, sorted by the most money spent in promotional campaigns and album covers.
Out of more than 100 diamond-certified albums, only a handful are by women or female-fronted bands. Katy Perry is the most recent addition.
For albums released between September 25, 1999, and December 31, 2002, the thresholds are 150,000 for Gold and 300,000 for Platinum. Also, for Jazz albums, the thresholds are 10,000 for Gold and 20,000 for Platinum. Diamond-award is applicable to titles released on/after January 1, 2013. [19] ^ IV Hungarian sales figures provided refer to "Pop ...
The weight of a diamond is one of these variables that determines a diamond’s worth and is what the general public is most familiar with. The unit of measurement, called the carat, equals 200 ...
The Daily Mirror and other sources reported a Rare Record Price Guide story in April 2015 that a David A. Stewart 'Test' 78 from 1965 was worth £30,000. A copy of Joseph Beuys' 100-only 'multiple' reel-to-reel edition of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee album from 1969 was valued at over £30,000. [21]