Talk:Music Canada

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 one external links on Music Canada. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.cria.ca/gold/0410_g.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.cria.ca/gold/1010_g.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.cria.ca/gold/0403_g.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.cria.ca/gold/0807_g.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.cria.ca/gold/0610_g.php

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 11:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified (February 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Music Canada. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130730182722/http://musiccanada.com/About.aspx to http://www.musiccanada.com/About.aspx
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050302215309/http://cria.ca/news/210904_n.php to http://cria.ca/news/210904_n.php
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101019181724/http://cria.ca/gold/0806_g.php to http://www.cria.ca/gold/0806_g.php
 * Added archive https://www.webcitation.org/66ClEv1xb?url=http://www.musiccanada.com/ to http://www.musiccanada.com/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 03:14, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

When did Music Canada start certifying records Gold, or Platinum?
According to the Music Canada website, under Gold/Platinum we read...
 * "Music Canada’s Gold/Platinum Certification Program was launched in 1975 to celebrate milestone sales of music in Canada."

However, searching through old publications, two stand out. (And I'm quite sure that there are many others...)

First, from Cashbox 1970-09-26, Page 49.... Under the Heading '''Canadian Gold For WB, Atl. LP's''', we find out that TWELVE albums from the Warner Brothers/Atlantic family of labels have been certified Gold in Canada(50 000 sales). And this is from 1970.

Second, from Cashbox Cash-Box-1972-01-28-OCR-Page-0051.pdf, Page 51..., we find out that...


 * "The Guess Who is Canada's biggest selling record group, with seven gold records plus a platinum disk to their credit.". And this is 1972.

I'm sure further investigation of old publications will reveal many more records that received Canadian certification BEFORE 1975.

This is reminiscent of French Certification, where Gold Certification began in 1973. But the website snepmusique.com only goes back as far as 1976, and even though omits dozens of certified records from the 70's and 80's. 197.83.246.171 (talk) 15:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)


 * And here's Canadian Gold Record awards being mentioned in 1968...


 * Self-reply: It appears that since 1963 Canadian Gold Record Awards were 100,000 copies for a single, and 50,000 copies for an album. These were not in-house label awards. In order to qualify for Canadian Gold, the sales data had to be presented to Canadian Music authorities who would then audit it. For some reason, Music Canada only recognises Music Sales Certification Awards since 1975. Old publications from 1963-1975 are full of announcements of these Awards being presented. It is unfortunate that these are not "officially" acknowledged by Music Canada today.


 * And now here says 1969. Which seems to be backed up by . So, was it 1963? Or were those in-house record label awards, and CERTIFIED Canadian gold record Awards only began in 1969? Either way, it is clear that Canadian Gold record Awards existed years before 1969...