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2014 is first year ever with ZERO platinum-certified records
While there were certainly a number of great albums you need to have from this year, 2014 will mark the first year since its inception in 1976 that no artist’s album will be certified as platinum from sales. The award is given by the RIAA to mark one million units sold, and with only a few weeks remaining in the year, no album is even remotely close to making the threshold.
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I love this! That's because music has SUCKED for a LONG time...and kids are waking up to that fact. Screw you, record companies, and shitty musicians...get on the ball and DO BETTER WORK!
And many people were buying entire albums for that 1 good track they heard on the radio or at a party, while the rest was filler. Nowadays you can just buy the single track for a dollar and be done with it.