YES!!not according to the RIAA. He's never had a album of any kind... EVER.... certified as platinum by the RIAA. He's had singles go platinum, never albums.
As of Sep. 2 2012 T.I.'s No Mercy Album has sold over 900,000 copies it is certified platinum by the RIAA.
No. RIAA diamond certification requires sales of over 10 million in the United States. The Massacre has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, but only 5 million in the US.
Yes. The RIAA (Recording Industry of America Association) tracks and will prosecute IP addresses they find violating copyrighted material. One example is at North Carolina State University, where in the Fall of 2007, 32 students received letters from the RIAA asking for $3000 to settle the charge of copyright infringement. The NC State students did not take kindly to this, and will battle the RIAA in court this coming year.
Lil Kim 'Hardcore' sold 1.47 Million respectively- but was certified double platinum by the RIAA for shipping 2 Million copies.
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YES!!not according to the RIAA. He's never had a album of any kind... EVER.... certified as platinum by the RIAA. He's had singles go platinum, never albums.
Elvis Presley's best selling album is Elvis' Christmas Album. It was released in 1970 and has earned an RIAA diamond award.
The Recording Industry Associationof America (RIAA) has just certified Journey's latest album Revelation as Platinum on December, 18, 2008. For more information, please visit the RIAA website: http://riaa.com/goldandplatinum.php
Since the album was RIAA Certified Diamond, that means that the album had at least 10,000,000 sales in the U.S. alone.
The album Red River Blue was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of 1 million copies.
There really isn't that much of a difference. Just the whole structure system.
According to the RIAA, he sold 14 million album in the United States.
Not platinum yet, but on March 5, 2010, the album was certified Gold by RIAA for sales of 500,000 in the US.
As of Sep. 2 2012 T.I.'s No Mercy Album has sold over 900,000 copies it is certified platinum by the RIAA.
According to the RIAA website:The first album to be certified as a diamond album was "Can't Slow Down" by Lionel Richie released in 1983 and certified in 1985 with 10 million sales.The earliest album that has been certified as diamond is "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles, which was released in 1967, but wasn't certified diamond until 1997 with 11 million sales.