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A congratulations are in order for Panic! At The Disco! The band's track “Nine In The Afternoon” has been certified 2x Platinum by RIAA after selling 2 Million units. Read more: Brendon Urie says new Panic! At The Disco album is recorded The track is taken from the band's 2008 album Pretty. Odd., and it still happens to be one of […]

A massive congratulations are in order for Twenty One Pilots: Blurryface is the first album ever to have every individual song on the album certified Gold, Platinum or multi-Platinum. Read more: All Time Low, Brendon Urie and Josh Dun hung out, our hearts are so full The band's 2015 album reached this certification with the recent Gold certification of “Hometown.” As […]

A congratulations are in order for Twenty One Pilots! The band's track “Goner” has been certified Gold by RIAA after selling 500,000 units. Read more: All Time Low, Brendon Urie and Josh Dun hung out, our hearts are so full The track is taken from the band's 2015 album Blurryface, and it still tears at our heartstrings today. The […]

Congrats to Blink-182! The band's recent album California has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association Of America, along with another Gold record for that album's lead single, “Bored To Death.” The means both the 2016 full-length and its first single have moved over 500,000 units. Read more: Watch Lil Peep cover Blink-182's “Dammit” […]

Twenty One Pilots have had quite the year so far as they've won their first Grammy for “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance” with “Stressed Out” and they've also been killing it on The Emøtiønal Røadshow tour. Now the band has a new accomplishment to add to their huge trophy case, Blurryface has been officially certified 3X Platinum by the […]

In 2015 U.S. vinyl sales earned more money than the recording industry made from advertisements on all free streaming services like YouTube and Spotify combined, according to the RIAA. Vinyl LP and EP sales are currently at their highest level since 1988, with a recent increase of 32% last year alone to $416 million. This […]

“Radioactive,” the popular tune from Imagine Dragons' debut album Night Visions (2012) is now RIAA certified Diamond, joining only four songs that have ever accomplished that feat: Lady Gaga's “Bad Romance,” Justin Bieber's “Baby,” and Eminem's “Not Afraid” and “Love The Way You Lie.”  Prior to scoring diamond status, “Radioactive” received a Grammy and was the longest-running […]

The RIAA have announced via Billboard Biz that they will begin counting streams from services like Spotify, Vevo, YouTube, Rhapsody and more toward gold and platinum record certification, marking the first time the RIAA have recognized a non-sales format in thier 55-year history. Every 100 streams of a track will now be weighted as one digital […]

The RIAA has claimed defunct file-sharing service LimeWire owes it $72 trillion in damages for some 11,000 violations of copyright infringement from users distributing and downloading pirated music. Via Computer World: “In a scathing ruling filed earlier this month, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York flatly […]