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RIAA To Present Taylor Swift With Top Ranking Digital Sales Award
RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Bainwol will present Swift with the award at tonight’s sold-out concert at the Verizon Center, featuring special guests Kellie Pickler and Gloriana.
“We are thrilled to present Taylor with this award celebrating her stunning success in the digital space,” said Bainwol. “She is a great example of what it takes to make it in today’s music business – talent, brains, persistence, personality – all coupled with her signature grace that wins her fans the world over. She continues to wow audiences with high-powered performances that showcase her award-winning musical skills. We congratulate her on this unprecedented career milestone.”
No stranger to Gold and Platinum recognition, the Big Machine Records’ musical icon earned her inaugural Gold single award for “Tim McGraw” in 2007 and her first Platinum nod for “Teardrops on My Guitar” in 2008. In 2009 Swift earned her first two multi-Platinum single awards for “Our Song” and “Love Story,” the latter of which remains her best selling single ever – at 4x multi-Platinum – to commemorate more than four million paid downloads. More recently in January, Taylor’s hit song “Today Was a Fairytale” went Platinum, selling more than one million downloads.
Officially launched in 1958, the RIAA’s Gold and Platinum program expanded in 2004 to include a Digital Sales award to recognize the significant sales of the digital music market.
All certifications are calculated by Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman. Complete lists of all album, single, mastertone and video awards can also be accessed at www.riaa.com.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade organization that supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies. Its members are the music labels that comprise the most vibrant record industry in the world. RIAA® members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate recorded music produced and sold in the United States.
In support of this mission, the RIAA works to protect the intellectual property and First Amendment rights of artists and music labels; conduct consumer, industry and technical research; and monitor and review state and federal laws, regulations and policies. The RIAA® also certifies Gold®, Platinum®, Multi-Platinum™ and Diamond sales awards as well as Los Premios De Oro y Platino™, an award celebrating Latin music sales.
Contact:
Jonathan Lamy
Cara Duckworth
Liz Kennedy
202/775-0101
