Godsmack‘s self-titled 1998 debut album has just landed its fifth multi-platinum certification in the United States. The early success of that album, which first went gold in April of 1999 and was certified 4x multi-platinum by December of 2001, helped establish the explosive upward career trajectory for the hard rock outfit. Since then their catalog has delivered a string of gold and platinum certifications.
“Voodoo“, the third single to be launched from that self-titled effort, was the only one to bring home hardware, having itself gone gold and platinum in March of 2015. The RIAA handed down this latest multi-platinum certification today, November 20. That debut bow remains the most decorated in terms of sales accolades among the band’s catalog.
A platinum album/single 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.
