Once and for all.... Please don't ask for definitions again!
Tis is how certifications work in the USA:
PLATINUM: 1,000,000 (one Million records sold)
GOLD: 500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand records sold)
Band is certified Platinum after RIAA acnowledges that one million albums have been PRINTED and SHIPPED.
There is a company called SoundScan that counts actual units sold over the counter and over the internet.
For example, These days shipped over a million copies but only 680,000 were sold.
Europe, Japan and Australia have lower numbers (100,000 for platinum) because of less population than the USA.
Get it, got it, good!!!
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Life-long Jovist, Purist, Critic
BJ album rankings:
These Days, SWW, Jersey, KTF, Crush, HAND, Bounce, Circle, 7800F, Bon Jovi, THINFS, WAN, (then a million mile gap) LH;
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