RIAA Gold Album award for Corey Hart album Boy In The Box. Released on June 14, 1985, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA a couple of months later on Aug. 21 for 500,000 copies sold.*
Hart's second studio album featured the hit "Never Surrender", which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart along with MTV airplay. It also won the 1985 Juno Award for "Single of the Year". Second single "Every Thing In My Heart" reached #30 in the U.S. while topping the Canadian Singles chart. The album peaked at #20 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Gold Album award
- In VG condition
- Award from 1986
- Presentation to mastering engineer
- All original, rebacked
- Known as a RIAA "flower hologram" award, they were made from 1986-1989
- Award measures approx. 17" x 21"
- Great collectors item for any Corey Hart fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a RIAA Gold Album award that would have been manufactured in 1986, making it approx. 39 years old. It is presented to well-known mastering engineer Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, who mastered this album along with those from many other artists from AC/DC to Def Leppard and Grateful Dead to Toto, Rush, the Rolling Stones and many others.
This award is in VG condition with only very minor mars on the plexiglass and frame. The award was rebacked at some point and two minor tears have been taped.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com