Avenged Sevenfold‘s vocalist M. Shadows and guitarist Synyster Gates have landed a new gold single, albeit outside of their work with their aforementioned multi-platinum alternative metal band. Instead, their 2007 collaborative single with Good Charlotte, “The River“, has just gone gold in the United States.
That song was first launched back in early 2007 as the first single from the also newly gold-certified Good Charlotte record, “Good Morning Revival“. Both of the aforementioned certifications were handed down by the RIAA on June 20th.
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.
