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Multi-Platinum means 2,000,000+ certification units; From 2004 through July 2006, the certification level was 100,000 downloads for Gold and 200,000 for Platinum. When the RIAA changed the certification standards to match retail distribution in August 2006, all Platinum and Multi-Platinum awards for a digital release were withdrawn.
Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for at least 20 million units, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been certified at least 10 times platinum but with sales figures lower than 10,000,000.
An album that becomes Platinum twice over, for example, an album which has sold 2,000,000 copies in the United States, is said to be "Double Platinum", or sometimes "Multi-Platinum". Since 2013 in the U.S., [ 13 ] and 2014 in the UK [ 22 ] and Germany, [ 23 ] streaming of songs counts towards certification of singles with 150 streams being the ...
Physical albums only; when combined with digital sales, thresholds are 15,000 for Gold and 30,000 for Platinum, whereby the digital sales are counted as 1/10 actual digital sales (10 downloads = 1 unit). ^ VII For Mexican sales, albums add physical, digital and streaming sales, for singles digital and streaming sales are taken into account. It ...
Michael Jackson's Thriller has become the first album ever to be certified 30 times multi-platinum for U.S. sales.
Reflecting growth in record sales, the Platinum award was added in 1976, for albums able to sell one million units, while singles qualify upon selling two million units. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The Multi-Platinum award was introduced in 1984, signifying multiple Platinum levels of albums and singles. [ 17 ]
Neil Diamond released three multi-platinum live albums in the ‘70s, but the most famous one is Hot August Night, perhaps in part because of Diamond’s hilariously strange pose on the album cover.
Big Ones is a compilation album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on November 1, 1994 [1] by Geffen Records. Big Ones features 12 hits from the band's three consecutive multi-platinum albums, Permanent Vacation (1987), Pump (1989), and Get a Grip (1993), as well as the hit "Deuces Are Wild" from the compilation The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience (1993), and two new songs, "Blind Man ...