RIAA Digital Download awards
p2pnet.net News:- You’ve known it for years, but now Big Music has finally figured it out.
Online music has arrived.
How can you tell?
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is to include music downloads in its gold and platinum record awards.
“While working with the United States Justice Department to track down people illegally sharing music on the internet, the (RIAA) has announced that their program for awarding gold and platinum records for sales will be extended to digital music,” says Canada’s SoulShine here.
“The program will launch in late August. The RIAA will calculate the sales of music downloaded from the various legal download sites.”
The RIAA’s Gold and Platinum awards were launched in 1958 with a Gold album award for the sale of 500,000 copies.
“As the industry grew, other awards were developed,” says the Big Music’s US enforcer and PR mouthpiece. “The Platinum award (1,000,000 sold) was created in 1976 and with the advent of the compact disc and the subsequent increase in sales, the Multi-Platinum award was created in 1984. On March 16, 1999, the RIAA launched the Diamond Awards, honoring sales of 10 million copies or more of an album or single.”
Of course, this digital awards will apply only to plastic music from the plastic music sites supplied and supported by the Big Five record labels.
If they were based on real-life downloads from independent sites and the p2p networks, they’d have to launch another category with Diamond as the start point.
July 8th, 2004 at 1:38 am
Again I ask, as I have with each of the few outlets that have picked up this story, isn’t this the same thing that DEMO (d-e-m-o.com) has had for about 2 years?
July 8th, 2004 at 2:37 am
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July 8th, 2004 at 4:06 am
You know, BigChampagne.com needs to start publicising its own music awards for P2P downloads. I like their Band Battle page, it lets you get a history of each artist’s P2P download popularity. When it comes to real music downloads and their stats, BigChampagne is where it’s at.
July 8th, 2004 at 4:55 am
Again nothing for INDIES!!!!! What if an Indie group had millions of downloads on Itunes do you think they would get an award!!!!! Hell no the only thing that Indie group would get is an offer to sign with a Major Label!!!! In other words Big Music would like to Screw you somemore Indie group!!!!!! As far as awards go it’s only Big music ’s way to show us how good they are at Brainwashing people with Pop crap Payola schemes!!!!!
July 8th, 2004 at 4:04 pm
Excellent point, could not agree more!
July 8th, 2004 at 4:20 pm
The reality in all of this is – the labels totally missed the boat and now they are doomed. Adding downloads to their totaaly useless awards will not make any difference to anything. They are gone.