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!!!

That's wrong. In Europe each country has its own Numbers, not as you said 100.000 for platinum in Europe. The Numbers for Germany are (population about 80.000 inhabitants to about 255.000 in the USA)

Albums:

Double platinum 600.000
platinum 300.000
gold 150.000

The Numbers were reduced back in 1999. Before 1999 the Numbers were the same as for singles that are still:

Double platinum: 1 Mill.
Platinum 500.000
Gold 250.000

It's my life got double platinum here for example.

Does anybody know the number for other european countries?

albums Singles

Silver 60,000 Silver 200,000
Gold 100,000 Gold 400,000
Platinum 300,000 Platinum 600,000
Thats the uk ones.

Well.... That certainly cleared things up :wink:

FRANCE
gold: 50,000
platinium: 100,000
silver : 500,000
diamond : 1,000,000

Thank you all!

Wondering what the numbers in India could be.
Gold 2.000.000? :D

30 000 = gold
60 000 = platinium

I'm not 100 procent sure about this...