RIAA Gold LP award for Bad Company album Straight Shooter. Released on April 2, 1975 on the Swan Song label, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA on May 5, 1975 for 500,000 copies sold. Remember Bad Company's Boz Burrell (1946-2006) and Mick Ralphs (1944-2025) with this award.
The album, the group's second, featured the singles "Feel Like Makin' Love" which went to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Good Lovin' Gone Bad", which went to #36 on the same chart, along with fan favorite "Shooting Star". The album rose to #3 on both the Billboard Top 200 Albums and UK Albums charts and was later certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA on Sept. 30, 1991 for three million copies sold.*
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Gold Album award
- Award from 1975
- Presented to Atlantic Records
- In VG condition
- All original parts with some restoration
- Award measures approx. 17" x 21"
- Known as a "floater" award because the components appear to "float" above the matte, they were made from 1975-1981
- RIAA "floater" awards numbered only 25-50 plaques worldwide for any given single/album
- Great collector's item for any Bad Company fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a RIAA Gold album award from 1975, making it approx. 51 years old. It is presented to Atlantic Records, who distributed Swan Song in the U.S.
The award has had its' frame and matte replaced with a correct period New York Frame & Picture Co. gold frame and correct style charcoal pebble matte. It is possible that the album miniature was redone, but otherwise all components are original. The award has been rebacked due to the restoration work.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com
