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

Only one British album released since the start of 2020, Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, has sold the 300,000 copies required to be awarded a platinum disc.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2021

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

Cream sold 35 million albums between 1966 and 1968 and were awarded the world’sfirst platinum disc for their album Wheels of Fire.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2014

Skipped school to get a recording contract at the age of 15 and earned her first platinum disc three years later.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2012

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 Scherzer, Karl Ritter von