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2 Responses to “Billboard Update 06/23/07”

1. 1 Pam Jun 18th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

   I have to disagree with what you are saying at what point the arist goes gold for digital downloads. Acoording to ,

   “The RIAA certifies tracks gold recognizing 100,000 legal downloads, platinum for 200,000 downloads and multi-Platinum for 400,000 and following in increments of 200,000 thereafter.

   This means that both Blake and Jordin qualify for Gold certificaton on the digital downloads side.

   Once you hit 400k, you are considered platinum not gold, which was indicated in Kelly Clarkson’s #’s of over 500K

2. 2 Kirsten Jun 18th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

   The RIAA changed their certification rules for downloads last June. Here is what Nevada posted in last week’s number’s thread:

   From the RIAA:

   New Thresholds for Digital Single Certifications - As the digital music marketplace continues to mature, we recognized a need to raise the existing sales criteria for the Digital Gold and Platinum program to meet the physical sales levels that we have recognized since the program was created in 1958. As such, effective immediately, new certification levels for the RIAA Digital Single Gold & Platinum Program will be:

   Gold = 500,000
   Platinum = 1,000,000
   Multi-Platinum = 2,000,000 (in increments of 1,000,000)

   The new certification levels for the RIAA Digital Gold & Platinum program are effective immediately. All pending requests for digital single certification will be completed under the original certification levels and then adjusted to the proper category under the new system. In the next week, all digital singles currently certified at Gold, Platinum, 2x Platinum, 3x Platinum, and 4x Platinum will be converted to Gold status. All 5x - 9x Platinum digital singles will be converted to Platinum status.

   But you still see the old certification numbers posted in a lot of places.

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