This can be either very inspir­ing, or very depress­ing for the strug­gling band. I won’t go into the his­tory of record sale cer­ti­fi­ca­tion here, I’m just inter­ested in giv­ing a sense of scale of record sales. The Wikipedia page has a good run­down on the par­tic­u­lars of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for the curi­ous. These num­bers come from the RIAA’s web­site, the Wikipedia’s List of Best Sell­ing Records.

Tags: Music Business, Promotion, Record Companies, RIAA

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