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RIAA adds digital streams to its calculations for gold and platinum certification

article published on 11 May, 2013

For the fith time since the 1950s, the RIAA has changed the way they calculate gold and platinum certification for single tracks. Under the new system, 100 streams of a track will count as one digital download. To go gold, you need to have 500,000 downloads (or physical copies), one million for platinum, and 2 million or higher for multi-platinum. The RIAA says they will accept ... [ read the full article ]

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DarkJello
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_ 		11. May 2013 @ 16:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Not including torrent downloads for some reason? lol
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snardos
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_ 		13. May 2013 @ 08:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So that means that Gangnam Style has gone well past multi-platinum. It has almost 1.6 billion views which converts to almost 16 million downloads.
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Ryberg360
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_ 		13. May 2013 @ 09:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Anyone of us can make it on the charts, just have to go viral!
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Interestx
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_ 		13. May 2013 @ 11:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's about time all the TV companies started doing similar, that way we might not see so many decent shows cancelled befoire their time.
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