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Also in 1956, Decca's presented a gold record award to Jerry Lewis for the single "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody". At the industry level, in 1958 the Recording Industry Association of America introduced its gold record award program for records of any kind, albums or singles, which achieved one million dollars in retail sales. These ...
Music recording certifications are typically awarded by the worldwide music industry based on the total units sold, streamed, or shipped to retailers. These awards and their requirements are defined by the various certifying bodies representing the music industry in various countries and territories worldwide.
Goldmine, established in September 1974 by Brian Bukantis out of Fraser, Michigan, [1] is an American magazine that focuses on the collectors' market for records, tapes, CDs, and music-related memorabilia. [2] Each issue features news articles, interviews, discographies, histories, current reviews on recording stars of the past and present.
Carlos Martín Ballester (born 1974): 75,000 78 rpm records (carlosmb archive) plus 5,000 78 rpms records and 200 cylinders (private collection). [27] It is the largest collection of 78 rpm records pressed in Spain. Part of the archive is on sale and new items are added regularly. [28] Elton John (born 1947): 70,000 items. [29]
Pink's fifth album, Funhouse (2008), sold over seven million copies worldwide and charted at number one in several countries, including Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It includes her second number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, "So What". In 2010, Pink released her first greatest hits album, Greatest Hits...
Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd — the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album ...
Platinum & Gold Collection — — — — — The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Pointer Sisters — — — — — Hip-O 2009 Playlist: The Very Best of the Pointer Sisters — — — — — Legacy: 2010 Goldmine: The Best of the Pointer Sisters — — — — — Sony Music "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not ...
In the 1970s, the record collecting hobby was aided by the establishment of record collecting publications such as Goldmine, DISCoveries, and Stormy Weather, and in the UK, Record Collector. Price guide books were published, codifying exactly how much certain "rare items" were supposed to be worth.