RIAA Platinum maxi-single award for Timmy T track One More Try". Released on Oct. 24, 1990, the maxi-single went Platinum for one million copies sold on April 12, 1991. Becoming one of the few tracks released on an independent label (Quality Records) to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the...

Guns N' Roses RIAA 18x Multi-Platinum album award for their debut album Appetite For Destruction, which was released on July 21, 1987. The album was certified 18x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA on Sept. 23, 2008 for 18 million copies sold. This album topped the Billboard Top 200 Album chart and...

Donna Summer "I Feel Love" Casablanca label "gold" 45 single award. This hit from Donna Summer's fifth studio album I Remember Yesterday was released on July 2, 1977. While this is not a RIAA award, the single was in fact certified Gold by the RIAA on Nov. 9, 1977 for 500,000 copies...

RIAA Platinum LP award for Richard Marx album Rush Street. Released on Oct. 28, 1991, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on July 22, 1992 for one million copies sold. The release contained "Keep Coming Back" and "Hazard", both of which topped the Adult Contemporary chart, along with...

Columbia Records label award recognizing success of the Barbra Streisand & Don Johnson duet "Till I Loved You" . The track appeared on Barbra Streisand's 1988 album of the same name. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #16 in the UK and charted in numerous other countries as...

RIAA 29x Multi-Platinum Award for Michael Jackson album Thriller presented to Michael Jackson. This classic album was released on Dec. 30, 1982 and is currently the second best-selling album in U.S. history and the best-selling album in the world with sales estimated at 70 million. This RIAA award celebrates the...

CRIA Gold Album award for Simple Plan album Get Your Heart On! Released on June 21, 2011, it was certified Gold by the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) on July 15, 2011 for 40,000 copies sold (in a country of then 34 million population). The album featured some notable collaborations with...

RIAA Gold album award for Winger's debut album, which was released on Aug. 10, 1988. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on Jan. 27, 1989 for 500,000 copies sold. "Seventeen" and "Headed for a Heartbreak" powered the album to #21 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and significant...

Here's an interesting item. In 1992 Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx decided to seek a new singer to replace Vince Neil, who had quit in February of that year (or been fired, it is not clear which). The remaining three members auditioned various promising singers. This is...

RIAA Combo Platinum Award for 2Pac/Jon B. track "Are U Still Down/They Don't Know" and Cool Relax album presented to Tupac Shakur. The single "Are U Still Down", by Jon B. featuring 2Pac was released on Jan. 2, 1998 and was certified Platinum for one million copies sold by the RIAA on...

RIAJ (Recording Industry Association of Japan) 500,000 Sold Album Award for Lenny Kravitz album Circus. The album was released on Sept. 12, 1995 and certified 500,000 sold by Japan's RIAJ. The album included "Rock and Roll Is Dead", "Circus", "Beyond the 7th Sky" (which award recipient Craig Ross co-wrote with...

RIAA 8x Multi-Platinum Award for Vanilla Ice album To The Extreme. Released on Sept. 3, 1990, the album was certified 7x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for five million copies sold on Jan. 9, 1991. While the award states eight million sold, the RIAA database shows it has topped out at...