Edge of Seventeen is really gold but will it ever be certified?

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by David

(The idea, for example, that a double album would actually be certified as having sold twice as many as it did just because there are two pieces of vinyl is grossly dishonest and misleading, and shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone outside the record company.)

Originally Posted by vivfox

Which is why TUSK really only sold 2 million copies, not 4.

This may be a trivial distinction, but I don't think they really claim that it sold more units, just that there are different certification standards. Generally 500,000=gold, and 1 million=platinium, but a double album (which presumably is a tougher sell to casual fans) only has to sell 250K to go gold and 500K to go platinum.