Talk:RIAA single certification

Wikipedia avoids abbreviations when possible (see Manual of style); note that "double platinum is indeed used commonly (see, for example,, , , but I found many, many more). --Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 11:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

And I agree we should not use abbreviations when possible;this is not one of those times. I know double platinum is relatively common, but for other multi-platinum singles, it's more common to spell it out as 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, etc. So they keep it consistent, double platinum should be spelled out with the more common chart term of 2x. OmegaWikipedia 19:08, 2 August 2005 (UTC)


 * 1) Not using abbreviations is possible in the more common cases (the same applies to other cases, such as numbers).
 * But in this case, it doesn't really work out and looks very akward.

Etitis| &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; )]] 20:37, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) The article doesn't explain why or how "ships" is different from "sells", so if it's important the gap should be filled. Can you do it? --Mel Etitis  ([[User talk:Mel

Gold album should be merged with this article, or this one with it. Does anyone have any preference? The other is more useful, as it offers more detailed information in place of a list of certified albums (something that should be in a separate article).

I note, incidentally, that Gold album has the gold-standard at 500,000 sales, so I'll change that back here too. --Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 21:57, 2 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, that article is wrong too. When we're talking about physical albums and singles, certification is given when a unithas shipped 500,000 copies (meaning 500 K are shipped out to the stores and such) Maybe it has sold 500,000 copies, but most of the time, if its shipped 500 K, it mostly likely has sold less like around 350 K.

For digital singles, there is no physical media for it. Everytime you buy one, a new copy is downloaded, so there is an unlimited supply. So for digital singles, there is never a shipment, because of the unlimited quantity, and certification is based on sales there.22:43, 2 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Please supply a citation for this claim. I'm afraid that your other edits are of such poor quality that I'm not prepared to trust you on this. --Mel Etitis  ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 13:34, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Look at RIAA.com OmegaWikipedia 01:16, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Former U.S. single certification numbers
The source I gave under "Guidelines" referring to certification being double pre-1989 is the only decent file I could find online; I do remember that, naturally, there were many articles in Billboard_magazine around the time of the switch. Mapsax 20:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

List of digital single certifications
What source is being used for the list of certified digital singles? I did some research via the RIAA's gold and platinum database search, and it failed to return any digital single certifications for Madonna, and it didn't find any digital single certifications above gold for Mariah Carey, Shakira, or Nickelback. Also, Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" was only listed as having achieved platinum status, not 8x platinum, and the same was true for Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" (all of her other certified digital singles only achieved gold status). And those are only the artists that I have searched for as of this moment. — Charity 02:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Horribly incorrect article
I have never seen a song going 11 times platinum in U.S. This whole article is wrong. So many songs with 5 times and above platinum. I will faint. Luxurious.gaurav 18:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Digital cert standards changed over a year ago
This article needs to be updated. The certification standard for digital singles was raised to 500,000 Gold, 1,000,000 Platinum -- the same as for physical singles -- around September of 2006. The previous awards still stand -- the RIAA doesn't take awards back -- but digital singles previously certified at 5X Platinum have been downgraded to 1X Platinum in the RIAA's online database. So the statement about "Fergalicious" going Platinum in one week is inaccurate, since 200,000 was no longer the Platinum digital standard by January of 2007.superbu 21:50, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Merged

 * merged to RIAA certification

(I did not merge the list of singles certified because it was unsourced and the objections raised above.) RJFJR (talk) 15:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)