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2. Music recording certification - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. List of music recording certifications - Wikipedia

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   It should also be noted that Mexico awards incremental gold certifications even after platinum has been achieved, so an album may be, for example, certified 2× Platinum + Gold. ^ VIII Dutch sales figures provided refer to "Popular" albums. A separate scale is used for jazz, classical, and world music albums: sales exceeding 10,000 and 20,000 ...

4. RIAA certification - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. List of highest-certified music artists in the United States

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   Drake Rihanna Eminem Beyoncé Kanye West. The following is a list of 50 highest-certified digital singles artists in the United States, based on song downloads and streams. As album sales suffered in the 21st century, the RIAA introduced Digital Single Award in 2004 to better recognize "artists' commercial success in a transformative music marketplace". [67]

6. 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records ...

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   Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 2 peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. [2] It was certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for a Gold Record Award (based on $1,000,000 in wholesale sales) on November 1, 1966. It was certified for a Platinum Record Award for sales of one million copies in the US on March ...

7. List of accolades received by Elvis Presley - Wikipedia

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   Presley was posthumously recognized for his contributions with the first retrospective American Music Award of Merit in 1987, and the first Golden Hat Award by the Blues Music Awards in 1984. He won additional awards for his performance in films, including Laurel Awards and Photoplay Gold Medal Awards , while became the first "Double-Triple ...