Linkin Park‘s debut album “Hybrid Theory” turned 20 this year and the band have plans to release a 20th anniversary edition of the record on October 09th (get the details here.) Ahead of that however comes word that the album has newly gone 12x multi-platinum in the United States as of September 11th, 2020. It was previously certified 11x multi-platinum on August 15th, 2017. 10x multi-platinum alone is considered diamond status in the United States.
A platinum album in the United States represents 1,000,000 units, while gold signifies 500,000 units. Outside of traditional physical/digital sales, the certifications factor in digital streams/downloads 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.
