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In order to become a gold record the album has to sell at lest 500,000 copies.

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How any copies of an album needs to be sold for it to go gold?

The RIAA has established the benchmark for a Gold Record as the sale of 500,000 units (with 1,000,000 sales being a Platinum Record and 10,000,000 being Diamond).


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Does Adam Lambert have a gold or platinum record?

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How any copies of an album needs to be sold for it to go gold?

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