RIAA Platinum Album Award for Semisonic album Feeling Strangely Fine. Released on Mar. 24, 1998, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA for one million copies sold exactly a year later on Mar. 24, 1999.*
The Minnesota group's second album featured the hit "Closing Time", which topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and charted well in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. It was also nominated for a Grammy award for Best Rock Song and the track was also featured in television's The Office. The album itself reached out at #43 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum Album award
- In VG to Excellent condition
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Made in 1999
- Presented to record promotion company
- Letter of provenance included
- All original with manufacturer sticker
- Known as a "RIAA serial number hologram" award, they were made from 1998 to present
- Award measures approx. 15" x 25"
- Great collectors item for any Semisonic fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This RIAA Platinum Album award is a first presentation award that would have been manufactured in 1999 making it approximately 25 years old. It is presented to Songlines, a record promotion company founded by Sean Coakley, an independent record promoter that worked with many record labels and who had also worked for ATCO/Atlantic and Arista Records. A notarized letter of provenance from the recipient is included with this award (see image).
The award is in VG to Excellent condition, with only a couple of very minor mars on the frame. The award is all original with Jewel Box Platinum manufacturer sticker.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com