Golden History

It's been a long tradition in the music industry to present to musical artists discs of various denomination to recognise sales. But where did this all start?

The original gold record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicise the achievement of 1,000,000 sales. The first of these was awarded by RCA to Glenn Miller in February 1942, celebrating 1,200,000 sales of "Chattanooga Choo Choo". Another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for 1,000,000 sales of the single "Don't Be Cruel." The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso (1956), the first album to sell over 1,000,000 copies. Awards were introduced at the industry level in 1958 with the RIAA's Gold Award Program. 1958 was also the year that the first classical LP went platinum, pianist Van Cliburn's RCA recording of his cold-war prise winning Tchaikovsky performance.

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(thanks to - wikipedia)