This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Album Certification for Christians
Aug
19
2010
RIAA certifies numbers of albums sold and gives awards for various levels of achievement.
If an album sells more than …
- 500,000 copies, it is certified Gold.
- 1,000,000 copies, it is certified Platinum.
- 10,000,000 copies, it is certified Diamond.
What is the Christian equivalent to RIAA certification?
It’s not the GMA Dove Awards, as those are vote-driven not sales-driven.
The closest thing I found was the CMTA SoundScan, but you have to buy a subscription if you want to know the sales numbers. So I don’t know the Christian music sales numbers, nor do I know if there are awards at various stages of sales achievement.
The RIAA people don’t give awards that are explicitly Biblical. Christians need an equivalent to the worldly awards. There are Christian music associations, so why not more Christian awards?
Therefore, I propose a Biblical rating system for album sales. If an album sells more than …
- 200,000 copies, it is certified Gold.
- 500,000 copies, it is certified Frankincense.
- 1,000,000 copies, it is certified Myrrh.
Notice I made the numbers smaller too. That wasn’t done to be more Biblical; that was done so that musicians in the GMA/CMTA realm could make the cutoff.
I’ll keep you, loyal reader, updated if anything ever comes of my proposal.
After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew 2:11
