Item Details
- Item Category:
- Album, Miscellaneous
- Artist:
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Format:
- Award
- Release Type:
- Certification
- Release Date:
- 1996.01.22
- Release Country:
- United States
- Manufacture Country:
- United States
- Package:
- Frame (wood) with window (plastic)
- Label:
- Release Code:
- 4M Award
- UPC:
- Matrix Code:
- Other Code:
- RPM:
- Amount Pressed:
- Unknown
Additional Information
4 Million award. The pics shown were found on eBay, the seller gave the following info: “The presentee is not a person, but is the company that manufactured the award. They are a custom frame company in Los Angeles, Jewel Box Platinum (www.jewelboxplatinum.com) and are certified by the RIAA to make the awards. The other blotted-out part is not a hologram, but is the logo plaque of the company, including their personal information (their phone #, address, logo, etc… stuff they’d probably appreciate not being posted on eBay.) That section of the plaque reads ‘Under license from the RIAA, Owner of the service marks RIAA & Design’.”
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.”
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