CLOSE TO YOU dvd is GOLD!!

[cam83]

Hi All,
CONGRATULATIONS to the Carpenters! Their CLOSE TO YOU: REMEMBERING THE CARPENTERS DVD is now GOLD by the RIAA. I think that is great news!!!

Cameron

[enigma]

Yes congrats on the gold status on CTY DVD this is not surprising this is a great DVD.

[karen69roland]

;D Yesssssssss!!!!!!!!!!

I love you Karen...

Roland C.

[Rick Henry]

Excellent!

Does anybody know how many copies a DVD has to sell to be certified GOLD?

...Hoping "Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition" will soon be certified GOLD.

[Rick Henry]

Dave said:

Rick;
The "gold" benchmark "used to be" 500,000. Platinum "was" 1,000,000. I put the qualifiers in quotation marks because I may be showing my age and they might be outdated.

Hey Dave, thanks for the info. But i believe those are the stats for ALBUM certifications. I think DVD certifications are lower.

[Rick Henry]

Hi Dave, for some reason I knew certifications were lower than 500,000 and 1,000,000. But I thought for sure it was higher than 50,000 and 100,000. anyway it's great the C's have sold over 50,000 copies of Remembering The Carpenters... Maybe with this success more DVD's will follow.

[enigma]

Dave you are right about the Gold and Platinum Certifications these are for albums, dvds, videos etc but not singles
I just want to add a footnote here previous to 1983 (I believe) gold was considered one million units and previous to 1975 there were no platinum (2 million+ units was Platinum) awards (they did not exist) so all The Carpenters (as well as other artists) albums that went gold were million sellers before 1975 some records (not The Carpenters) even qualified for platinum but were not awarded that certification. Singles remain the same gold being one million units and platinum 2 million+ units. I did not learn this until recently so the Carpenters were all the more impressive when I saw all their Gold awards they got.

[Rick Henry]

The Carpenters' albums from 1970 to 1975 for the longest time were listed as being certified GOLD only but in 1996 the RIAA finally updated their ceritifications and now several of Carpenters' album are Platinum.

as for certification for singles from 1958 to 1988 to be certified GOLD a single had to sell a million copies, and in 1989 it was changed to 500,000 copies for GOLD.

for PLATINUM single the certification from 1976 to 1988 was 2 million copies, in 1989 it was changed to 1 million copies for PLATINUM.

At this point the Carpenters are listed as having 10 GOLD singles. But if the RIAA were to update the Carpenters' single certifications it would be 10 PLATINUM singles and 3 or 4 additional GOLD singles.

Below is the current list of certifications the C's have been awarded:

CARPENTERS, THE (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU 08/12/70 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN 11/13/70 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE CLOSE TO YOU 11/13/70 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE FOR ALL WE KNOW 04/12/71 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE CARPENTERS 06/07/71 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE RAINY DAYS & MONDAYS 07/21/71 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE SUPERSTAR 10/18/71 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE HURTING EACH OTHER 02/29/72 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE A SONG FOR YOU 07/10/72 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE SING 05/17/73 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE NOW & THEN 06/07/73 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE YESTERDAY ONCE MORE 08/13/73 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE TOP OF THE WORLD 12/11/73 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE THE SINGLES 1969 - 1973 12/11/73 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE PLEASE MR. POSTMAN 02/11/75 A&M GOLD SINGLE

CARPENTERS, THE HORIZON 06/17/75 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE A KIND OF HUSH 07/14/76 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT 01/16/81 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE THE SINGLES 1969 - 1973 11/13/91 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE THE SINGLES 1969 - 1973 11/13/91 A&M MULTI PLAT (3 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE THE SINGLES 1969 - 1973 11/19/92 A&M MULTI PLAT (4 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE YESTERDAY ONCE MORE 04/16/98 A&M MULTI PLAT (2 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE YESTERDAY ONCE MORE 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE YESTERDAY ONCE MORE 04/16/98 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE THE SINGLES 1969 - 1973 04/16/98 A&M MULTI PLAT (7 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE NOW & THEN 04/16/98 A&M MULTI PLAT (2 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE NOW & THEN 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE HORIZON 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CLOSE TO YOU 04/16/98 A&M MULTI PLAT (2 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CLOSE TO YOU 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CARPENTERS 04/16/98 A&M MULTI PLAT (4 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CARPENTERS 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE A SONG FOR YOU 04/16/98 A&M MULTI PLAT (3 TIMES) ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE A SONG FOR YOU 04/16/98 A&M PLAT ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE VOICE OF THE HEART 07/24/98 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE A KIND OF HUSH 07/29/98 A&M PLAT. ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS 08/11/98 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE LOVE SONGS 06/12/00 A&M GOLD ALBUM

CARPENTERS, THE CLOSE TO YOU: REMEMBERING THE CARPENTERS 03/25/03 MPI HOME VIDEO GOLD VIDEO LONGFORM