Additional Information

Gold award, for 500.000 copies sold. Funny anecdote: 1 of these Gold Awards is hanging in Hotel Monaco, Chicago, in the “WXRT’s “Party Like A Rock Star” Suite”. Check out Monaco Hotels and read “The sitting room features a regal red velvet couch, dramatic zebra-striped carpeting, a display of eight gold records by artists such as the Smashing Pumpkins and the Bare Naked Ladies, and a fully-loaded TouchTunes jukebox, the world’s first digital jukebox that stores songs on a computer hard drive.”. We are trying to get a pic of that…

Info from RIAA.com:

“The RIAA® Gold® and Platinum® Awards program was launched in 1958 in an effort to create a standard by which to measure sales of a sound recording.

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.”