{"id":3548,"date":"2014-10-20T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T02:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2014-10-20T22:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T02:15:47","slug":"no-platinum-albums-in-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"No Platinum Albums in United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no Platinum certified albums in the United States this year, the first time since certification had been established in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently even Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Frozen&#8221; soundtrack didn&#8217;t surpass the one million sales mark in the States, selling only just over 750,000 copies this year because of the popularity of music downloads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/musiccanada.com\/certification\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s Gold and Platinum certification<\/a> was altered to address this issue in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to May 2008 Canadian album releases were given Platinum Status when they reached 100,000 sales. But this was reduced to 80,000.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> : Taylor Swift managed to surpass a million sales with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B00NG5CDLA\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=390961&#038;creativeASIN=B00NG5CDLA&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20\">1989<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-ca.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=musicbymailca-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=B00NG5CDLA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8221; in the first week of November 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no Platinum certified albums in the United States this year, the first time since certification had been established in 1976. Apparently even Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Frozen&#8221; soundtrack didn&#8217;t surpass the one million sales mark in the States, selling only just over 750,000 copies this year because of the popularity of music downloads. Canada&#8217;s Gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[55,197,717,813,835],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}