Posted February 18, 200718 yr Brits nominees highlighted in IFPI Platinum Awards February 14, 2007 Arctic Monkeys and Snow Patrol, both prominent nominees for the Best Album and Best Group titles at this year’s Brit Awards, feature among the latest IFPI Platinum Award winners list. The awards are given to artists whose albums have sold more than one million copies in Europe. Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not by the Arctic Monkeys has been nominated for Best Album at the Brits and picks up its first IFPI Platinum Award today. The four-piece band from Sheffield shook the music scene in 2006 with songs such as I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor and When The Sun Goes Down which both shot to the top of the singles charts. Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not has gone on to win a plethora of awards including the 2006 Mercury Prize and the band scooped Best British Breakthrough Act at the last year's Brit Awards. Snow Patrol's Eyes Open, nominated for Best Album at the 2007 Brit Awards, gains its second Platinum Award as sales pass the two million mark. Originally from Northern Ireland, Snow Patrol were stalwarts of Scotland's indie rock scene in the late 1990s before finding mainstream success with their top five hit Run in 2003. Released in May 2006, Eyes Open went onto become the biggest selling album of last year in the UK. The band also picked up four awards earlier this month at the 2007 Irish Music Awards including Best Album, Best Band, Best Live Performance and Most Downloaded Song for Chasing Cars. Norah Jones gains an IFPI Platinum Award for her third album Not Too Late, which sold more than a million copies across Europe within its first two weeks of release. Following the success of her previous two albums Come Away With Me and Feels Like Home, her latest offering set the record for the most pre-ordered album on Amazon.com over its 11 year history. Sean Paul, the Jamaican reggae and dance hall artist, picks up the first IFPI Platinum Award for his third album The Trinity, the highly anticipated follow up to his Grammy-winning album Dutty Rock. His latest offering has been a top ten hit in countries across Europe such as the UK, France and Austria and features smash hit singles such as (When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me and We Be Burnin'. Nirvana, the eponymous album from the rock band whose work shaped the rock music scene of the early 1990s, scoops its second IFPI Platinum Award. The album is the third from the band to be released following the death of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in 1994. It includes the previously unreleased You Know You're Right, a song recorded during the band's final studio session in January 1994, as well as a selection of the group's most popular songs from throughout their career. U2 also pick up their second IFPI Platinum Award for their retrospective U218 Singles, which contains 16 of the bands best known songs as well as the new track Window in the Skies and a cover version of The Saints Are Coming in collaboration with Green Day. U218 Singles picked up its first Platinum Europe Award in December 2006 after selling more than one million copies within its first month of release and has proved to be a worldwide hit. The Irish group released their first album in 1980 and have gone on to become one of the world's biggest bands. ARTIST ALBUM TITLE COMPANY AWARD LEVEL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARCTIC MONKEYS WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT DOMINO RECORDING 1 NORAH JONES NOT TOO LATE EMI 1 SEAN PAUL THE TRINITY WARNER MUSIC 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIRVANA NIRVANA UNIVERSAL 2 SNOW PATROL EYES OPEN UNIVERSAL 2 U2 U218 SINGLES UNIVERSAL 2
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