Music Canada’s Gold & Platinum program celebrates 50 years - Music Canada

January 9, 2025, TORONTO, ON: Music Canada’s Gold & Platinum certification program is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2025. For half a century, this system has marked the milestone gross sales and streaming accomplishments of artists in Canada – making the distinctive Gold and Platinum plaques probably the most recognizable image of business success within the music trade.

Since 1975, the Gold & Platinum program has acknowledged well-liked music in Canada, offering a novel historic timeline of the music Canadians have beloved over the previous 5 many years.

“As we glance again on 50 years of this system’s historical past, you may see the affect and attain of songs that outlined generations, hit singles that captured the tradition of the day, and all of the ways in which totally different applied sciences have influenced how we eat the music of our lives,” says Patrick Rogers, CEO of Music Canada. “There is no such thing as a better benchmark of success than a Gold & Platinum certification, as a result of it displays what Canadians take heed to and love.”

In its first yr, this system issued 27 Album and 7 Bodily Single certifications. The Program’s first-ever certifications, which have been issued on August 1, 1975, have been:

Paul Anka	Anka	Platinum Album
Bachman-Turner Overdrive	4 Wheel Drive	Platinum Album
Beau Dommage	Beau Dommage	Platinum Album
Paul Anka	Emotions	Gold Album
Jim Croce	Biggest Hits	Gold Album
John Denver	Again Residence Once more	Gold Album
John Denver	Night with John Denver	Gold Album
George McCrae	Rock Your Child	Gold Album
The Guess Who	The Better of Vol. 2	Gold Album
Paul Anka	“I Don’t Prefer to Sleep Alone”	Gold Bodily Single

This system has all the time mirrored how individuals take heed to their favorite songs and albums, starting with vinyl albums and 45 rpm vinyl singles, then cassette tapes, CDs, digital downloads, ringtones, audio streaming and most not too long ago, video streaming. Because the trade continues to evolve, the Gold & Platinum program will develop alongside it and proceed to have a good time the music that Canadians select to take heed to, wherever they select to take heed to it.

In the present day, the genres of music and the artists discovering business success are broader and extra various than ever earlier than. In 2024, this system licensed 1,025 Singles and 211 Albums, together with:

Benson Boone	“Stunning Issues”	Diamond Single
Tate McRae	“you broke me first”	Eight Instances Platinum Single
Sabrina Carpenter	“Espresso”	Seven Instances Platinum Single
Dax	“Pricey Alcohol”	Double Platinum Single
Josh Ross	“Hassle”	Double Platinum Single
Koriass, Jay Scøtt	“Matusalem”	Gold Single
Preston Pablo	“Dance Alone”	Gold Single
Cameron Whitcomb	“Quitter”	Gold Single
Charlotte Cardin	99 Nights	Platinum Album
Karan Aujla	Making Recollections	Gold Album

Music Canada will have a good time the fiftieth anniversary of the Gold & Platinum program all year long with particular occasions, playlists and shows. And to formally mark the anniversary, every new Gold & Platinum program plaque introduced in 2025 to artists and their groups will embrace a commemorative fiftieth Anniversary pin.

Observe Gold & Platinum on Instagram and X for weekly posts celebrating this system’s wealthy historical past, and contribute to the dialog with #GoldPlat50.

About Music Canada

Music Canada is the commerce affiliation representing Canada’s main report labels: Sony Music Leisure Canada, Common Music Canada and Warner Music Canada. Like its members, Music Canada is a companion to the trade, working with artists, impartial labels, publishers, platforms, associations and others, in advancing forward-looking insurance policies to make sure a dynamic and profitable Canadian music ecosystem which returns worth to music creators.

For extra data:

Regan Reid

rreid@musiccanada.com

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