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RIAA certifications for Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lynyrd Skynyrd on display at Julien's Auctions. A Gold record is a song or album that sells 500,000 units (records, tapes, and compact discs).
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States". [1]
RIAA equalization is a specification for the recording and playback of phonograph records, established by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The purposes of the equalization are to permit greater recording times (by decreasing the mean width of each groove), to improve sound quality, and to reduce the groove damage that would ...
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music video) and by nation or territory (see List of music recording certifications ).
The Recording Academy, the RIAA, the National Music Publishers Association and virtually every major music organization has written to Congress to ask for releief for the music community due to ...
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. The standard certification awards ...
The U.S recorded-music industry posted record revenue of $8.7 billion based on solid streaming and vinyl numbers, according to the RIAA’s mid-year report, but growth was just 4% — half of the ...
Latin music revenue in the United States outpaced the general music market for a second consecutive year, hitting a new high of $1.4 billion and representing 16% growth over 2022. The Recording ...