Deep Dive: RIAA Certifications

Dec 17, 2019

∙ Paid

RIAA AWARDS

GOLD - 500,000 UNITS (Est. 1958)

PLATINUM - 1,000,000 (Est. 1976)

DIAMOND - 10,000,000 (Est. 1999)

As the RIAA explains on their website, the Album Award counts album sales, song sales and on-demand audio and/or video song streams at the formula of 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.

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