The Circle ~ Certified Platinum
As seen on Bon Jovi's Facebook page:
Last night in Toronto Bon Jovi's The Circle album was certified platinum! Thanks to all the fans who got us here! This is a great honor and achievement!
In the beginning, there was only a Gold album award for the sale of 500,000 copies. As the industry grew, other awards were developed. The Platinum award (1,000,000 sold) was created in 1976 and with the advent of the compact disc and the subsequent increase in sales, the Multi-Platinum award was created in 1984.
On March 16, 1999, the RIAA launched the Diamond Awards, honoring sales of 10 million copies or more of an album or single.
The Circle went gold in the US in January 2010. As of this post, there is no listing on the RIAA for Platinum rating of this record, but they have the awards, so the website is just a little behind. You can keep checking here. A full list of the band's platinum and multi-platinum albums can be found here. On the short list of Diamond albums, Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet was certified as of October, 1995.
Congratulations, Bon Jovi!
Now, not to diminish that amazing accomplishment, but I did a little more poking around RIAA's site. They have an interesting "Top Artists" page, where they list artists by millions of records sold. Now it doesn't say what date these ratings are "as of", but I cringed to see some of the artists that Bon Jovi sold fewer records than. Check it out for yourself.
~ Hath
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2 comments:
It's also interesting to note here that Platinum records are not records sold but shipped...
It's also interesting that there are nameless crew/staff people in the picture, but no Hughie, who played on the damned record.
Where's the love, guys?
~ Hath
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