Brave New World Certified Gold in Britain
According to BPI.co.uk, the British record industry's trade association, 'Brave New World' (2000) has finally received the gold certification (100,000 copies sold) in Britain on February 18.All Maiden studio albums, except 'The X-Factor (1995) and 'Virtual XI' (1998) have gone at least gold in the UK.
'Dance of Death' (2003) was certified silver after four days and got its gold certification one and a half month after its release.
Many thanks to matteo of the Maiden BB
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Edited a little and added some nice info.
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QUOTE(Shadow @ Feb 21 2005, 05:57 PM)
All Maiden studio albums, except 'The X-Factor (1995), 'Virtual XI' (1998) -and 'Best of the Beast' (1996)- have gone at least gold in the UK.
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Thats because Maiden weren't around at that time it was some other band who put out those albums
It is a remarkable coincidence though don't you think? Even the best of album not going gold - almost as if EMI just didnt promote the band under Blaze?
QUOTE(Real World @ Feb 21 2005, 09:40 PM)
Thats because Maiden weren't around at that time it was some other band who put out those albums It is a remarkable coincidence though don't you think? Even the best of album not going gold - almost as if EMI just didnt promote the band under Blaze?
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It is a remarkable coincidence though don't you think? Even the best of album not going gold - almost as if EMI just didnt promote the band under Blaze?[right][snapback]98334[/snapback][/right]
BOTB not being Gold is quite strange knowing that ETG is.
As you say, the label didn't promote the band a lot. Still, I'm sure TXF has more than 50'000 in the UK, for it sold well at the beginning when people were (at least) curious.
Anyway, there might be a ban on the Blaze years coming either from the label or the 'reunion' contract
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QUOTE(The Saint @ Feb 21 2005, 08:57 PM)
BOTB not being Gold is quite strange knowing that ETG is.
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BOTB is gold, it was certified in 2002
QUOTE(juju @ Feb 21 2005, 11:35 PM)
BOTB is gold, it was certified in 2002
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Checked, you're right.
Altered the news with that info... Thought it was only silver...Cheers
Strange how DOD was certified so much quicker than BNW.
QUOTE(Maiden_Patrick @ Feb 22 2005, 10:23 AM)
Strange how DOD was certified so much quicker than BNW.
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yes, strange
whereas DOD sales are half size of BNW in US
Certification is the result of an audit asked by the record company. So, it could just be that EMI never asked for an audit on BNW, whereas the album got the 100'000 sales much earlier.
Check the BPI page and you'll see that some 80s albums were certified kind of late as well.
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QUOTE(The Saint @ Feb 22 2005, 08:54 AM)
Certification is the result of an audit asked by the record company. So, it could just be that EMI never asked for an audit on BNW, whereas the album got the 100'000 sales much earlier.
Check the BPI page and you'll see that some 80s albums were certified kind of late as well.
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Check the BPI page and you'll see that some 80s albums were certified kind of late as well.
Cheers
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What's more when you ar certified gold it doesn't mean that you have sold 100000 but that you shipped 100000 in stores. When DOD was certified gold it sold around 75 000 if I remember and probably reached the 100000 months later
Brave new world had already seld gold here in sweden when maiden visited us on the metal 2000 tour 