RIAA Gold 45 Single award for Van Halen "Jump". The track, which became Van Halen's only Gold single over their career, was released in Dec. 1983 in advance of their upcoming 1984 album. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on April 3, 1984 for 500,000 copies sold.
The album was the group's fifth and last with David Lee Roth in the line up and the track became Van Halen's only #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It also went to #1 on the Mainstream Rock Singles chart. It also helped drive the album to #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart and also did well in many other countries. By 1999 the album had gone to 10x Multi-Platinum, becoming a rare Diamond certified album, and matched their debut as one of VH's two best selling releases. See image above for RIAA sales certification of this single*.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Gold 45 single award
- In VG condition
- First presentation award from 1984
- Presented to Warner Bros. Records executive
- Known as a late "strip plate" award, they were made from 1982-85
- Award measures 10" x 15" (unusual undersize award)
- Great collectors item for any Van Halen fan
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- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a first presentation RIAA Gold 45 single award that would have been manufactured in 1984. That makes this award around 39 years old. It is presented to Marylou Badeaux, who was Warner Bros. VP of Black Music (working closely with Prince, who was also on the Warner Bros. label at the time) and later Special Projects.
This award is in VG condition with only some very minor wear to the frame and plexiglass. It is an unusual undersize award and is most likely a "grey area floater" award made in the 80s by an unknown manufacturer. Some collectors believe that it was made possibly a former staffer from Fitzgerald Hartley, who was about to become a new RIAA manufacturer around this time, but this cannot be confirmed. Many Van Halen and Prince Warner Bros. awards from the mid-1980s share these characteristics (i.e. no manufacturer label and at times odd characteristics, such as the smaller size of this award, which is not the standard size of RIAA stip plate 45 awards). For more information on awards such as these, see the section on "floater awards"in our record award guide here.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com