Renan90 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=&ti=&lab=&genre=&format=&date_option=certification&from=2021-01-01&to=2021-11-08&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbeatxx Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 How the **** was it only platinum 19 years after its release? And now 24x plat? its sales in the soundscan era (1991-) arem’t that impressive… It’s an amzing album tho, Led Zep literally churned out game changing classics in just a few years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Parker Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavish Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Love this album. "When the Levee Breaks" is my favourite track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Show Business Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 The way it jumped from gold to diamond because they didn't update the certs until 1990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainMusic Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 37 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said: How the **** was it only platinum 19 years after its release? And now 24x plat? its sales in the soundscan era (1991-) arem’t that impressive… It’s an amzing album tho, Led Zep literally churned out game changing classics in just a few years! 19 years after its release it was 10x Platinum (the same day it was certified Platinum) and it sold 14x Platinum during the Soundscan, how on earth is that not impressive? Y’all just say anything. OT: Very impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnusualBoy Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Huge numbers, although I've always thought the sales for some of these old acts are kind of fishy considering there wasn't really a good way to measure the sales nor calculating them properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbeatxx Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 minute ago, CaptainMusic said: 19 years after its release it was 10x Platinum (the same day it was certified Platinum) and it sold 14x Platinum during the Soundscan, how on earth is that not impressive? Y’all just say anything. OT: Very impressive Didn’t you read my post? 1990 it went from plat to 10x plat. Well it was very likely undercertified then but what i dont get are those further 14x certs when its sales since 1991 are way lower. Dont remember now exactly, but like 5 million since 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbeatxx Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 9 minutes ago, Kavish said: Love this album. "When the Levee Breaks" is my favourite track. I agree. And black dog and battle of evermore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavish Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 minute ago, blackbeatxx said: I agree. And black dog and battle of evermore Literally my Top 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainMusic Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 8 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said: Didn’t you read my post? 1990 it went from plat to 10x plat. Well it was very likely undercertified then but what i dont get are those further 14x certs when its sales since 1991 are way lower. Dont remember now exactly, but like 5 million since 1991 The day it was certified platinum was the same day it was certified 10x plat, look at the dates. It went from gold to platinum/10x plat because as you said it was very undercertified. But hmm I’m now confused about the sales because I thought it sold a lot more at Soundscan, it sold 3,825,000 as of April 2013 so probably around 4M now. It sold less than 298k at BMG or wasn’t available as it’s not on this list. https://top40-charts.com/mnews.php?nid=4631&cat= That leaves Columbia house which didn’t release numbers, so it must’ve sold 10M there during the 90s, a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbeatxx Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 minute ago, CaptainMusic said: The day it was certified platinum was the same day it was certified 10x plat, look at the dates. It went from gold to platinum/10x plat because as you said it was very undercertified. But hmm I’m now confused about the sales because I thought it sold a lot more at Soundscan, it sold 3,825,000 as of April 2013 so probably around 4M now. It sold less than 298k at BMG or wasn’t available as it’s not on this list. https://top40-charts.com/mnews.php?nid=4631&cat= That leaves Columbia house which didn’t release numbers, so it must’ve sold 10M there during the 90s, a mess. Yeah, that’s what bugging me. the certs in 1990 is obvious now thanks for pointing it out. And obviously i’m a fan, but yeah, the numbers from 90’s later on are….mysterious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renan90 Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 It' a classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 14 hours ago, blackbeatxx said: Yeah, that’s what bugging me. the certs in 1990 is obvious now thanks for pointing it out. And obviously i’m a fan, but yeah, the numbers from 90’s later on are….mysterious Most album certifications got huge increases in the 90s because the RIAA started to include certifications from music clubs and other things that weren't included from previous years. Charmasters explained that in their site. So basically all the music club sales that the album had since 1971 were included after 1994 when the RIAA started to count them https://chartmasters.org/2018/09/a-step-into-club-sales-of-all-time-top-us-sellers/ https://chartmasters.org/2016/08/cspc-led-zeppelin-popularity-analysis/5/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternium Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 17 hours ago, blackbeatxx said: How the **** was it only platinum 19 years after its release? And now 24x plat? its sales in the soundscan era (1991-) arem’t that impressive… It’s an amzing album tho, Led Zep literally churned out game changing classics in just a few years! You pay for each certification. So sometimes labels won’t even pay to fully certify a project. It’s a mess and RIAA needs to fix it to become more accurate. 2 hours ago, Green said: Most album certifications got huge increases in the 90s because the RIAA started to include certifications from music clubs and other things that weren't included from previous years. Charmasters explained that in their site. So basically all the music club sales that the album had since 1971 were included after 1994 when the RIAA started to count them https://chartmasters.org/2018/09/a-step-into-club-sales-of-all-time-top-us-sellers/ https://chartmasters.org/2016/08/cspc-led-zeppelin-popularity-analysis/5/ I wish Columbia House would have pulled a Sony BMG and just released their numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katamari Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 thats a classic most diamond albums from a non beatles rock band i fear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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