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rca’s regal in-house gold record award for “all shook up”

BE­FORE THERE WERE RIAA GOLD RECORDS, sim­ilar awards were presented to artists by their record com­pa­nies. Col­lec­tors dif­fer­en­tiate be­tween these two types of awards by re­fer­ring to com­pany awards as “in-house” whereas RIAA awards are “of­fi­cial.” While searching the in­ternet, I found an RCA Victor award for an Elvis record on the Rock­hurst Auc­tion website. [Read more] “rca’s regal in-house gold record award for “all shook up””

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riaa certifies elvis for 18 new gold and platinum awards

WELL BLESS-A MY SOUL! The folks at Sony/RCA are acting wild as a bug and may, in fact, be all shook up. Why? Be­cause the RIAA just pre­sented them with more Gold and Plat­inum Record Awards for Elvis and the two or­ga­ni­za­tions are sending mixed sig­nals on the In­ternet. [Read more] “riaa certifies elvis for 18 new gold and platinum awards”

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the original RIAA gold standard was based on units of one million

THE ORIG­INAL RIAA GOLD RECORDS were in­tro­duced in 1958, and there were only two awards: a Gold Record for sin­gles, and a Gold Record for LPs. To qualify, a single must have sold a min­imum of 1,000,000 copies, while an LP album must have sold $1,000,000 at the man­u­fac­tur­er’s whole­sale price. [Read more] “the original RIAA gold standard was based on units of one million”

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about those elvis gold and platinum record awards

IN A PRE­VIOUS AR­TICLE here on A Touch Of Gold I stated that Elvis died with a mere twenty-eight RIAA Gold Records col­lected during his ca­reer. It also pointed out that he didn’t have a single RIAA Plat­inum Record Award on his wall! He had plenty of awards from RCA Victor and re­lated com­pa­nies from around the world, but only twenty-eight of the most valu­able and im­por­tant awards. [Read more] “about those elvis gold and platinum record awards”

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elvis’ riaa gold record awards 1958-1975 (while he was alive)

ELVIS DIED WITH ONLY 28 “OF­FI­CIAL” GOLD RECORDS. That is, he col­lected only twenty-eight RIAA Gold Record Awards during his ca­reer from 1956 to 1977. Nei­ther he nor Colonel Parker nor RCA showed any en­thu­siasm for the awards while he was alive. But since his death, an­other 150 of his records have been newly certified! [Read more] “elvis’ riaa gold record awards 1958-1975 (while he was alive)”