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In Australia, music recordings can go gold or platinum weeks in advance before their release. All ARIA require are wholesale purchase receipts for auditing purposes.
In case anyone is wondering what this image is, it's supposed to be Guy Sebastian - the winner of Australian Idol - being received digitally. Oh the imagination of newpaper artists... Not that non-Australians would want to know, of course.;)
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Returns are never factored into sales awards by ARIA. So no, gold or platinum statuses cannot be reduced.
In Australia, music recordings can go gold or platinum weeks in advance before their release. All ARIA require are wholesale purchase receipts for auditing purposes.
In case anyone is wondering what this image is, it's supposed to be Guy Sebastian - the winner of Australian Idol - being received digitally. Oh the imagination of newpaper artists... Not that non-Australians would want to know, of course. ;)
One wonders where we would be today with the WWW if Tim had chosen to patent his invention?