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??

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

Thanks i didnt know what the exact numbers were to be certified what

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.

haha awesome thanks :cheer:

You're welcome.

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

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 The certification levels are way out of date IMHO.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:

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 The certification levels are way out of date IMHO.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.

why the singles need more to be certified than albums???

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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