The first official designation of a "gold record" by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was established for singles in 1958, and the RIAA also trademarked the term "gold record" in the United States. Gold record presented to Artie Schroeck for his arrangement on " Can't Take My Eyes Off You", 1967 Other recording artists received special and symbolic recognitions, including Raphael with a " Uranium disc" granted by Hispavox and SGAE in 1980, and Luis Fonsi received the " Plutonium disc" from Universal Music Group recognizing the global sales of " Despacito" in 2017. In the late 1980s, the certification thresholds for singles were dropped to match that of albums. In 1999, the diamond certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. For instance, the recording by Van Cliburn of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto from 1958 would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this would not happen until two decades after its release. No album was certified platinum prior to this year. The platinum certification was introduced in 1976 for the sale of one million units for albums and two million for singles, with the gold certification redefined to mean sales of 500,000 units for albums and one million for singles. For albums in 1968, this would mean shipping approximately 250,000 units for singles the number would be higher due to their lower retail price. These sales were restricted to U.S.-based record companies and did not include exports to other countries. The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA Victor to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso (1956), the first album to sell over 1,000,000 copies in RCA's reckoning.Īt the industry level, in 1958 the Recording Industry Association of America introduced its gold record award program for records of any kind, albums or singles, which achieved one million dollars in retail sales. Another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for one million units sold of his single " Don't Be Cruel" or Decca’s gold record to Jerry Lewis for " Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody". The first gold disc was awarded by RCA Victor (under division imprint Bluebird Records) to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942, celebrating the sale of 1.2 million copies of the single, " Chattanooga Choo Choo". The first silver disc was awarded by Regal Zonophone to George Formby in December 1937 for sales of 100,000 copies of " The Window Cleaner". The original gold and silver record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. " Uranium disc" granted to Raphael by his label Hispavox in 1980
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