RIAA Platinum Award for Billy Joel album The Nylon Curtain. Released on Sept. 1, 1982, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on Dec. 7, 1982 for one million copies sold.
Highlights on the album certainly included "Allentown", which spent six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and which peaked at #17, along with "Pressure", which topped out at #20. The album also included the amazing and epic 7m 4s track "Goodnight Saigon". The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and also did well in many other countries. It was also nominated for Album Of The Year at the Grammy awards. By 1994 the album was certified 2x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for two million copies sold. See image above for the RIAA sales certification of this album*.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum award
- In VG condition
- Award from 1986
- Presentation to record label executive
- All original with manufacturer sticker
- Known as a "flower hologram" award, they were made from 1986-89
- Award measures 17" x 21"
- Beautiful collectors item for any Billy Joel fan
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Detailed Item Description: This RIAA Platinum award would have been manufactured around 1986 making it approx. 38 years old. The award is presented to Tony Zetland, then a record executive at Columbia Records.
The award is in VG condition with minor wear on the frame and a few mars on the plexiglass. It is all original with Fitzgerald Hartley manufacturer sticker.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com