Should The Idea Of “Gold Records” Be Sent To The Scrap Heap?

noah | December 12, 2006 2:25 am

USA Today blogger Ken Barnes made a list of last month’s gold and platinum album certifications today, and he gave his readers a bonus: hard-and-fast sales numbers. (Since RIAA certifications are given to the number of albums shipped, not the number of albums sold, there are often discrepancies between accolades and reality–for example, Scott Stapp’s craptastic The Great Divide was certified gold and platinum shortly after its release in late 2005, even though it’s only moved around 350,000 copies to date.) We noticed that there were a lot of certified-gold albums that seemed a little silvery to us; take a look at these certified-gold albums, and let us know which one has the best chance of really reaching the 500,000-sale mark:

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RIAA: November gold and platinum (and actual sales) [Listen Up]