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Thread started 05/12/24 4:43pm

TheNewPowerMan

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Did u know "Emancipation" went gold 2013 in UK?

For me it was completely new that "Emancipation" received gold in the UK in july 2013. I mean the album reached only #18 and stayed only 7 weeks in the charts. Here's the link: https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/9323-2697-2

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Reply #1 posted 05/13/24 5:36am

leecaldon

That's news to me, and also hasn't been updated on Wikipedia.

Does the UK certifying system count one sale as three units (like I believe the US does)?

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Reply #2 posted 05/13/24 6:02am

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I did always think that multi disc sets counted as one unit for each disc in the UK but I can't find anything to confirm that at the moment.

UK Gold status does only require 100k sales, so if it's one for each disc, would only need 33,334 sales.


https://en.wikipedia.org/...tification

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Reply #3 posted 05/13/24 8:01am

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Cool. I'd like to see the stats for his other albums in the UK.

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Reply #4 posted 05/15/24 12:15pm

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leecaldon said:

That's news to me, and also hasn't been updated on Wikipedia.



Does the UK certifying system count one sale as three units (like I believe the US does)?



No.
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Reply #5 posted 05/15/24 12:20pm

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EnglishGent2 said:

I did always think that multi disc sets counted as one unit for each disc in the UK but I can't find anything to confirm that at the moment.

UK Gold status does only require 100k sales, so if it's one for each disc, would only need 33,334 sales.


https://en.wikipedia.org/...tification



No.
As of 2018, Emancipation sold 110k copies in the UK.
Surely around 10k more from the 2020 reedition

2 top 20 singles from that album, including Betcha By Golly Wow, who sold more than 100k copies there too.
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