Worldwide album sales

Have seen that Chart Masters information, confirms Maiden should have many more gold, platinum and multi platinum singles and albums from US and Canada.

Def Leppard have virtually no new certs from North America in 30 years, recent press release for documentary says Hysteria 14p, Pyro 11p in US, RIAA website says 12 and 10.

When bands make claims about 110 million albums sold, official certifications often suggest less than half that. Recertify!
 
edward creighton said:
In US certifications don't happen automatically, bands need to apply for it and pay the fee.

Would imagine SIT, Powerslave, LAD, Seventh Son should be double platinum, NotB and PoM maybe triple platinum. Fear, IM platinum.

Singles Trooper, RttH, Beast, Fear should be at least gold in US.

In UK singles certifications happen automatically. UK higher thresholds for singles relative to US, given US population 5 times larger. UK silver 200k, gold 400k, platinum 600k for singles, in US gold 500k, platinum 1 million.

In US double albums count as 2 for certification purposes, so number of others could be gold.
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That’s information I didn’t have.

All the 50th anniversary tour press releases mentioned 100 million copies sold, but it’s been a long time since the RIAA last updated the figures in the US.
 
I think you can take that with a pinch of salt, as they are obviously not just including streams, but the bulk of the figures would be made up of streams. Which are meaningless.
 
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