Disturbed‘s latest album “Immortalized” has officially been certified platinum by the RIAA for ‘sales’ in the United States. The 2015 release was officially certified on January 25th. The album was propelled by its included mega-hit cover of Simon And Garfunkel‘s “The Sound Of Silence“, which itself was certified 3x multi-platinum this past November. That cover has since gone on to be the band’s most popular song on Spotify with 195,739,884 streams as of press time, roughly a cool 25 million more than the band’s defining track, “Down With The Sickness“.
Likewise the official music video for the cover has racked up nearly 337 million views on YouTube, with a live performance of the song from an episode of ‘Conan‘ also claiming over 74 million views. Currently Disturbed are in the studio with Kevin Churko working on the follow-up to the aforementioned opus.
A platinum album in the United States represents 1,000,000 units. The sales certification factors in digital streams/downloads into their awards with 10 permanent track downloads counting as 1 unit and 1500 on-demand audio/video streams from a particular album also counting as as a unit.
