platinum disc

British  

noun

1. 1. (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies

   2. (in the US) an album or single certified to have sold one million copies Compare gold disc silver disc

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platinum disc

In the albums market, none of the year's new releases were popular enough to be awarded a platinum disc, representing 300,000 sales.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

What I think is a platinum disc turns out to be a 22-times platinum disc: “To commemorate the sale of more than 22 million copies of the album The Wall.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2018

A: I received a platinum disc from my work on the reissue of George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” album.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2015

Last year, her Grammy-nominated collaboration with dance producer Zedd, Clarity, won a platinum disc in the US.

From BBC ● May 29, 2014

When heated on a platinum disc, it burns away with a bright flame, leaving no residuum.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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