certified gold
Verified as valuable
Certified gold describes a music recording that has reached a sales threshold verified by an industry organization, typically 500,000 units in the United States: Their debut album went certified gold within six months.
The certification comes from bodies like the RIAA, lending official status to commercial success.
By extension, certified gold describes anything proven excellent or authentic: That recipe is certified gold.
- bullionPrecious metal in bulk
- karatGold purity unit
- assayCompositional evaluation procedure
- hallmarkDistinguishing characteristic or mark
- ingotCast metal block
Fort Knox · purity · verified · authenticated · stamped · 24k · bar · vault · Swiss bank · refinery · mint · troy · ounce · precious · investment · standard · genuine · tested
- music industryalbum, albums, singles, record label, record labels
certified golddiamond
Crystallized carbon gemstone
multi-platinum · uncertified · certified platinum · double platinum · triple platinum
certified goldflop
Complete commercial failure
bomb · tanked · uncertified · dead on arrival · underperformer
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