Posted January 2, 200817 yr Does anybody know if Leon Jackson's single has been certified anything (Gold, Platinum, ect). He's got the 4th best selling single of the year, should it have something??
January 2, 200817 yr It's basically done 400,000 sales so its Gold at the moment. I think it needs an extra 200,000 sales in order to go platinum
January 3, 200817 yr For anyone who doesn't know: Singles: Silver 200,000 Gold 400,000 Platinum 600,000 Albums Silver 60,000 Gold 100,000 Platinum 300,000.
January 3, 200817 yr For anyone who doesn't know: Singles: Silver 200,000 Gold 400,000 Platinum 600,000 Albums Silver 60,000 Gold 100,000 Platinum 300,000. Don't you think its a bit stupid how albums need less to go platinum than singles. I mean Take That would of gone almost 7xPlatinum
January 3, 200817 yr Don't you think its a bit stupid how albums need less to go platinum than singles. I mean Take That would of gone almost 7xPlatinum That's because singles used to sell way more albums. The certification levels are way out of date IMHO. If anything they need to be swapped around. :lol:
January 4, 200817 yr That's because singles used to sell way more albums. The certification levels are way out of date IMHO. If anything they need to be swapped around. :lol: I don't - albums are more expensive than singles. Think the levels are fine.
January 4, 200817 yr For anyone who doesn't know: Singles: Silver 200,000 Gold 400,000 Platinum 600,000 Shows how certification doesn't mean that much anymore Originally in the 60s-70s both singles & albums certification was: Bronze = 250,000 - Silver = 500,000 - Gold - 1,000,000 In the 80s it changed to: Silver = 250,000 - Gold = 500,000 - Platinum - 1,000,000 Edited January 4, 200817 yr by Euro Music
January 4, 200817 yr And about 10 years ago: For singles: Silver: 200,000 Gold: 400,000 Platinum 600,000 For Albums: Silver: 100,000 Gold: 200,000 Platinum 300,000
January 4, 200817 yr Shows how certification doesn't mean that much anymore Originally in the 60s-70s both singles & albums certification was: Bronze = 250,000 - Silver = 500,000 - Gold - 1,000,000 In the 80s it changed to: Silver = 250,000 - Gold = 500,000 - Platinum - 1,000,000 I'm not sure that is right the current classifications have been around since at least the early 80s.
January 4, 200817 yr Shows how certification doesn't mean that much anymore Originally in the 60s-70s both singles & albums certification was: Bronze = 250,000 - Silver = 500,000 - Gold - 1,000,000 In the 80s it changed to: Silver = 250,000 - Gold = 500,000 - Platinum - 1,000,000I don't know where you got this information from but it's not correct. Official certifications began in April 1973 with singles sales levels being: Silver 250,000 Gold 500,000 Platinum 1,000,000 and albums certifications were based on monetary values until the current sales levels (60,000, 100,000 and 300,000) were introduced in 1978. In 1989 the levels for certification for singles changed to what exists now, 200,000 for silver, 400,000 for gold and 600,000 for platinum. Prior to 1973 awards were not official, they were first introduced by Disc magazine in the late 50s to copy the US system of certifications. There was no real auditing system and were seen more as a bit of fun. In addition, the awards were not at those levels you mention nor for "bronze" discs - I don't know where you got that one from. 250,000 was silver, the idea being that the UK market was 4 times as small as the US and so the award level was set at 4 times less than that of the US (where you had to sell 1,000,000 records to get a Gold disc. Disc newspaper settled on the idea of making the award Silver rather than Gold. At some point in the 60s a Gold disc for 500,000 sales seems to have appeared. The official awards system began in 1973 when the BPI was formed.
January 5, 200817 yr I don't - albums are more expensive than singles. Think the levels are fine. I agree. Think they're just right as they are now. Albums sell a lot more.
January 5, 200817 yr On Dotmusic, they used to go against the BPI's qualifying levels, and had this on their albums chart pages:- Silver- 100,000 Gold- 200,000 Platinum- 300,000 Sounds a lot better than the official one :), but the certification icons on the chart entries seemed to go by BPI qualifications. Edited January 5, 200817 yr by Marcus
January 5, 200817 yr On Dotmusic, they used to go against the BPI's qualifying levels, and had this on their albums chart pages:- Silver- 100,000 Gold- 200,000 Platinum- 300,000 Sounds a lot better than the official one :), but the certification icons on the chart entries seemed to go by BPI qualifications.I was never quite sure where Dotmusic got those levels from but I do remember them appearing on the chart page. I think someone emailed the admin in the end, but I can't remember if the levels were ever corrected.
January 6, 200817 yr Some record companies gave their artists gold discs for one million UK sales of their singles. The first award was probably to Paul Anka for Diana. EMI gave 5 Gold discs to the Beatles. In his Book of Golden Discs Joseph Murrrells states: "The million selling discs listed in this book were either reported as having reached that figure by the manufacturers themselves to various musical magazines and newspapers or the information appeared in the general press. Since only some of the sales figures have been certified by actual audit the compiler cannot verify the listings, but has passed on such information as many years of research have led him to believe is derived from acceptable reports."
January 6, 200817 yr I'm not sure that is right the current classifications have been around since at least the early 80s. Off topic but what spent 6 weeks at #7 :o LOL
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