Alternative rockers The Smashing Pumpkins are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1996 box set “The Aeroplane Flies High” with a new vinyl reissue. That platinum-certified set served as a companion piece for the band’s hit 1996 double album “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness“. This new pressing is scheduled to arrive on December 18th, and pre-orders for it are available through smashingpumpkins.lnk.to/TheAeroplaneFliesHigh5LP.
In other news, today, October 02nd, also saw the band land some new certifications in the United States. The diamond-certified “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness” has newly graduated to 11x platinum status. That marked its first certification since hitting diamond status back in August of 2012. Meanwhile, the group’s 1993 sophomore album “Siamese Dream” has newly been certified 7x platinum. It was last certified 4x platinum back in January of 1996.
At the moment, the band are out on the road celebrating 30 years of “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness” on their ‘The Rats In A Cage Tour‘.
*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. 150 streams of a song also equate to a track-equivalent unit.
