gold record
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Martindale, who received a gold record for the recording, performed the piece on Ed Sullivan’s popular Sunday-night variety show.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025
The group has been defiant and prolific, producing 15 full-length albums — one gold record, “Punk in Drublic,” among them — 17 EPs and countless seven-inch records.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
“I Do, I Do” provided his biggest hit single, “My Cup Runneth Over,” a gold record winner in 1967.
From Seattle Times • May 27, 2023
It would be the first of his two holiday-themed albums and would spend four weeks at No. 1, earning gold record status when sales topped $1 million.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2022
The same can be said of the novel after the best-seller, the album that follows the gold record, or the proverbial sophomore jinx.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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