RIAA Platinum Album award for Dire Straits album Brothers In Arms. Released on May 13, 1985, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on August 13, 1985 for one million copies sold. Hard to find Dire Straits award.
A seminal album from Dire Straits, it featured the Billboard Hot 100 #1 single "Money For Nothing" with a cameo from Sting, "So Far Away", "Walk of Life", "Your Latest Trick", and the title track, which was memorably featured in one of the most highly rated episodes of Miami Vice, helping to fuel massive success of the release. The album itself reached #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and also topped the charts virtually around the world. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Album Of The Year and won for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical, and also won Brit and Juno awards. By 1996 it was certified an impressive 9x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for nine million copies sold.*
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum Album award
- In VG condition
- Award from 1985
- Presentation to mastering engineer
- All original with manufacturer sticker
- Known as a RIAA "flower hologram" award, they were made from 1986-1989
- Award measures approx. 17" x 21"
- Great collectors item for any Dire Straits fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a first presentation RIAA Platinum Album award that would have been manufactured in 1985, making it approx. 40 years old. It is presented to well-known mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, 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. Ludwig won a Grammy award in 2006 for his mastering of the surround sound version of the album.
This award is in VG condition with only very minor mars on the plexiglass and frame. The award has its original backing board with Creative Glassics manufacturer sticker.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com