Guns N' Roses RIAA 18x Multi-Platinum album award for their debut album Appetite For Destruction, which was released on July 21, 1987. The album was certified 18x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA on Sept. 23, 2008 for 18 million copies sold.
This album topped the Billboard Top 200 Album chart and has become the seventh best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. One could argue that "Welcome To The Jungle" changed music, ushering out "hair metal" and bringing a new, harder-edged strain of rock into the mainstream. The melodic guitar lines of "Sweet Child o' Mine" and anthemic "Paradise City" also helped power the album to RIAA certified sales of over 18 million by 2008. See image above for the RIAA sales certification data of this album over the years*.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA 18x Multi-Platinum album award with CDs and album artwork
- In Excellent condition
- Award made in 2008
- Presented to record promotions executive/artist manager
- Original with manufacturer stickers
- Very large and impressive award measures approx. 26" x 43"
- Known as a RIAA "serial number hologram" award, they were made from 1998 to present
- Awesome collector's item for any Guns N' Roses fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S. (a great deal on this large award)
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a first presentation RIAA 18x Multi-Platinum award that would have been manufactured sometime after 2008 when the album was certified by the RIAA at 18 million sold. That makes this award approx. 16 years old. The award is presented to Shawn "The Rainmaker" Barusch, a promotions executive and artist manager.
This large and impressive award is in Excellent condition. It appears to have a suede matte or purposefully uneven black print on its' matte as can be seen in the images. It is completely orginal and was made by Dejay Products, whose manufacturer stickers appear on its backing paper.
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Notes on the condition of all vintage RIAA awards: Please do not buy this item if you want a brand new piece of memorabilia. These are historical artifacts from the year they were produced. As a result they may show signs of wear. Frankly, if you see a 20 to 50-year-old award purported to be in 100% perfect condition, it might be too good to be true. After all, an antique should have "good' wear. If not, you might want to question the piece.
As to where they came from, they could have been displayed in record label offices, recording studios, artist manager's offices, radio stations, private collector's homes and yes, of course, possibly the artist's or songwriter's home. Typically, we don't know all the places they may have been over the years other than what we've stated in the description.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com