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Effective Feb. 1, RIAA will include on-demand audio and video streams and a track sale equivalent in Gold & Platinum (G&P’s) Album Award. The modernization of the program’s album rule follows a similar update made to digital single certifications in 2013, when the RIAA first added on-demand streams to its Digital Single Award. Collectively, this now means that the program’s iconic benchmarks – 500,000 (Gold), 1,000,000 (Platinum) and 2,000,000 plus (multi-Platinum) – will count both sales and streams for single and album certifications.
Jamaica: Congratulations is order to dancehall artist Popcaan
Unnu can’t chat to Popcaan again He is the second Jamaican artist to sell out the Crystal Palace Bowl in London. The first Jamaican reggae artist was none other than…
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