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How are Gold/Platinum/Diamond record awards awarded?
If the sales threshold for a Gold record in one country is 500,000 (like America), and in another country is 100,000 (like the UK), and an album's sales exceeds both thresholds in both countries, does that album then get awarded a Gold award from both the RIAA in America and the BPI in the UK? Because there are loads of countries, each with their own different sales thresholds, so if this is the case then couldn't an artist get dozens of awards for a single album?
Also because each country has different thresholds, if an album doesn't exceed the required amount of sales in America for a Gold award, then it might do so in another smaller more obscure country. So because that album did achieve a Gold award (just in a different country), is that album then recognised in America as achieving a Gold award even though it did poorly there?
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- L. E. GantLv 71 year ago
Sometimes, I wonder...
At times, I think it's meaningful to measure success that way -- it would vary from country to country, depending on the population. So, yes, it could be as low as 10,000 in a small country with a small recording industry, and 100,000 in the USA (it used to be 1,000,000, but I think that's gone by the board). The "awards" are really only earned in the country, rather than world-wide
But I suspect that the awards of gold record or platinum or whatever are rather like the "#1 NY Times Bestseller" -- more a publicity stunt than a real accolade for the number of copies sold.
