Gunbot wrote:Is there still no Gold certification? Are they too cheap to do the audit?
"Certification is not automatic; for an award to be made, the record label must pay a fee to have the sales of the recording audited. The audit is conducted against unit shipments (most often an artist's royalty statement is used), which includes albums sold directly to retailers and one-stops, direct to consumer sales (music clubs and mail order) and other outlets. Shipments that could potentially be returned to the label can not be counted."
Journey is up to
775,186, but this count is likely slightly
lower than the actual count. (Hence the need for the audit.) I think the actual number is closer to 800,000.
With this count, Journey has to sell
14,051 albums each week for the next 8 weeks for the album to go platinum (1,000,000 CDs) by the end of the tour. The fact that Journey in August is playing a lot of the bigger venues should provide some support for album sales. A well-timed t.v. appearance or other marketing effort could probably inject a healthy boost into sales that would help over the next few weeks .......
It's very possible that Journey won't pay for the certification until they think it has gone platinum. That's often the case with other albums now. In that scenario, "Revelation" will go gold and platinum simultaneously.
HOPE THEY DO BETTER NEXT WEEK!!