BTW, Going gold is selling 500,000 albums, Platinum is 1,000,000.
I think the number was just quoted as an example. You're wrong anyway, there isn't one standard. The numbers vary from territory to territory.
I think the number was just quoted as an example. You're wrong anyway, there isn't one standard. The numbers vary from territory to territory.
can you provide an example?
According to this: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goud_(muziek)
...In the Netherlands a music album is considered "gold" right now after 30,000 CD's sold... And that has apparently been adjusted over time as well: 1999 you still needed 50,000 copies to make gold, but now it's less thanks to the general decline in CD sales in favor of online downloads.
Platinum is currently 60.000 sold (used to be 100,000)