RIAA Platinum Album Award for White Zombie album Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head. Released on April 11, 1995 it was certified Platinum by the RIAA on June 19, 1995 for one million copies sold.
The groove metal group's fourth album featured the hits "More Human than Human" and "Super-Charger Heaven"", which received heavy airplay. The tracks propelled the album to #6 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, #25 in the UK, and it also charted in many other countries. The album garnered a pair of Grammy Award nominations, one for Best Engineered Album and one for Best Metal Performance for the track "More Human than Human". By 1996 the album was certified 2x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for two million copies sold.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum Album award
- Award from 1995
- In VG condition
- Presented to artist relations director
- All original
- Known as a RIAA "R hologram" award they were made from 1990-97
- Award measures 17" x 21"
- Great collectors item for any White Zombie fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This RIAA Platinum award was manufactured in 1995, making it about 30 years old. It is presented to Marco Soccoli, who was a drummer and Director of Artist Relations for musical instrument/gear manufacturers Vic Firth, D'Addario, Evans, Promark, Sonor, Mapex, and others.
The award is in VG condition with minor mars on the plexiglass and frame. It is all original with Fitzgerald Hartley manufacturer sticker.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com.