MIRANDA
LAMBERT’S ALBUM
‘THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS’
CERTIFIED PLATINUM BY RIAA
THE AMBITIOUS 24 SONG ALBUM
CERTIFIED PLATINUM BY RIAA
‘THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS’
CERTIFIED PLATINUM BY RIAA
THE AMBITIOUS 24 SONG ALBUM
CERTIFIED PLATINUM BY RIAA
Updated: 13 July 2017
Nashville, TN -- Vanner Records/RCA Records Nashville GRAMMY
Award-winner Miranda Lambert’s sixth studio album The Weight of
These Wings is now certified PLATINUM (1-million
units) by the RIAA.
Released on November 18, The Weight Of These Wings arrived at No.1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart with 121,766 copies sold and No.3 on the Billboard Top 200 all genre Chart with 133,000 total consumption. Now, 33 weeks after its release, The Weight of These Wings is PLATINUM.
Released on November 18, The Weight Of These Wings arrived at No.1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart with 121,766 copies sold and No.3 on the Billboard Top 200 all genre Chart with 133,000 total consumption. Now, 33 weeks after its release, The Weight of These Wings is PLATINUM.
* NOTE * Platinum = 1-million units
Gold = 500,000 units
Note: For ALBUM certifications, the RIAA base their figures on the number of units SHIPPED together
with, track sales and on demand audio/ video stream units and NOT
based purely on traditional retail sales.
1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales =
1 album sale.
150 on-demand streams = 1 track download
On the latest Billboard Top Country Albums chart THE WEIGHT OF
THESE WINGS (Vanner/ RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) rose 21-20 (144-135 Billboard
200 all genres) selling 2,082 copies (down 9%). It actually has sold 366,282 in pure
retail sales in its first 32-weeks.
The Weight of These Wings which has been praised by critics from NPR, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Associated Press, The New Yorker, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly to name a few and was awarded the ALBUM OF THE YEAR at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards this past April.
In addition, the first song released from the now PLATINUM album, “Vice,” hit the Country Radio airwaves almost a year ago to date, when it released on July 18, 2016. The debut single was just an early taste from what fans would eventually come to know as The Weight Of These Wings also received multiple GRAMMY and ACM Award nominations on its own.
The Weight Of These Wings features 24 songs and was produced by Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf, and Eric Masse.
Double Albums Double Weighted and some!
The USA RIAA certification
process counts a Double Album sales
as two albums sold (Two discs
in the same package)
Double
albums are counted twice as the consumer is buying 2 discs.
Technically a double album only needs 500,000 units (based on units actually sold + units shipped (unsold)
+ track sales and on demand audio/ video stream units). Miranda’s “Vice”
>> Vevo
video has reached nearly 26 million streams.
WEIGHT OF
THESE WINGS is counted as two units for certification because it's a double
album over 90 minutes long so it has shipped 500,000 copies thus earning
a platinum certification
However, an album project rarely costs twice that of a single CD
these days. The Weight of These Wings physical 2-CD is currently priced at $15.88 in US Amazon.com / £11.99 in UK Amazon UK, and £10.99 on iTunes so can hardly be considered twice as difficult
to sell with a higher price!
Extract:
“A double album 10 or 20
years ago most times was kind of ridiculous,” said producer Frank Liddell. “These days, EPs are even too long,
and here we got a double record in 2016.”… It’s in
that context that Lambert’s album will be evaluated. It’s an hour and 40
minutes long, a major commitment for a listener in an era when attention spans
are notably short. “People are very focused on singles and streaming, so it was
a very big creative risk that she took,” said John Osborne of Brothers Osborne, who toured with Lambert in 2016. “But if you know Miranda
Lambert at all, she’s not afraid to take big creative risks.” In fact, the
creativity — not the size of the project — was the driving force behind The Weight of
These Wings…. She reportedly wrote
about 60 songs, then recorded more than 30 during a period of a year. From that
pool, they removed anything that didn’t seem to fit, then settled on the two
dozen that appear on discs titled “The Nerve” and “The Heart,” images derived
from the hook of the final song on disc one: “I don’t have the nerve to use my
heart.” The “Heart” songs, says Liddell, reflect her core being, while the
“Nerve” tracks are more about the outer shell she has created for herself…. In fact, where rock artists recorded plenty of
double-disc albums, most multiple-disc country releases — such as George Strait’s Strait Out of the Box or George Jones’ Anniversary: 10 Years of
Hits — have been
compilations.
Multiple-disc studio albums of new
material have included Garth Brooks’ covers project Blame It All
on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences, Vince Gill’s Grammy-nominated four-disc
set THESE DAYS and three volumes of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band series WILL THE
CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN, featuring
a stream of guest artists. Jim Lauderdale fashioned a two-disc Americana effort, SOUL
SEARCHING, and Marty Stuart built SATURDAY
NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING. There are
certainly others, but they’re few and far between, and with good reason. “That’s
a lot of songs to have to live up to a certain standard,” says Cassadee Pope. “But if there’s one person that can do it, it’s Miranda.”….(SOURCE:
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OF NOTE: Vince Gill's 4-CD Box set THESE DAYS was released by MCA Nashville on October 17, 2006 and
debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200 selling 42,187 copies in its first week
(chart dated Nov 4, 2006). It was certified GOLD on Nov 21, 2006 and then certified PLATINUM on Dec 11, 2006 for
1 Million units. On the US Billboard
Charts (dated Jan 6, 2007) it was placed at #88
having sold 40,984 with a 10-week pure
sales total of 214,274. (214K + units shipped x 4 = 1 million)
Jamey Johnson released a
double album THE GUITAR SONG
(Mercury Nashville) on Sept 14, 2010 which opened at #1 on Top Country Albums and
No.4 on the Billboard 200 selling 62,778 copies (chart dated Oct 2, 2010). The album was divided into two parts; a
12-track CD; titled "Black Album" and a 13-track CD titled
"White Album".
On Nov 17, 2010 is was certified GOLD (0.5 Million units)
for albums sold plus shipped to retail. In its 9th chart week (dated Nov 27, 2010)
it was #72 on the Billboard 200 with actual total sales of 182,026. As of the chart dated Feb 19, 2011, the album
had sold 263,000 copies in the US. The Weight of These Wings which has been praised by critics from NPR, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Associated Press, The New Yorker, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly to name a few and was awarded the ALBUM OF THE YEAR at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards this past April.
In addition, the first song released from the now PLATINUM album, “Vice,” hit the Country Radio airwaves almost a year ago to date, when it released on July 18, 2016. The debut single was just an early taste from what fans would eventually come to know as The Weight Of These Wings also received multiple GRAMMY and ACM Award nominations on its own.
The Weight Of These Wings features 24 songs and was produced by Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf, and Eric Masse.
Miranda earned her
first No.1 on the Billboard Top 200
Album Chart (BB200) with the debut of PLATINUM
(RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville; released June 3, 2014). The set, her fifth release sold 179,646 copies in
the week ending June 8, 2014 according to Nielsen SoundScan. "Platinum"
also easily scored Lambert a fifth straight No.1 debut on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
That sum was Miranda’s best sales week to date and the largest for
an album from a female country artist since the week ending Dec. 30, 2012. That
week, Taylor
Swift's RED sold 241,202 copies in 10th chart week (3x Platinum; Total
3,107,249), nine weeks after it debuted at No.1 with 1,208,290 copies million. By
September 2016, PLATINUM had sold
850,000 copies in the US.
Lambert was only the 11th female country artist to top the
Billboard 200, which became a regularly published list in 1956.
Each of Lambert's albums had started with successively larger
debut weeks:
KEROSENE (released March
15, 2005, bowed at No.18 on the Billboard 200 in 2005 with 40,000.
CRAZY
EX-GIRLFRIEND released May 1, 2007 (Billboard 200 No.6 debut with 53,000),
REVOLUTION released Sept
29, 2009 released (Billboard 200 No.8 debut with 65,875 copies;
chart Oct 17, 2009) As of the chart dated January 28, 2012, the REVOLUTION had sold 1,598,987 copies in the
US
FOUR THE RECORD released November 1, 2011 (Billboard 200 No.3 debut with 133,223 copies). The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 10, 2014, and by September 2014, it had sold 1,014,000 copies in the US.
FOUR THE RECORD released November 1, 2011 (Billboard 200 No.3 debut with 133,223 copies). The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 10, 2014, and by September 2014, it had sold 1,014,000 copies in the US.
About Miranda Lambert:
Vanner Records/RCA Records Nashville singer/songwriter Miranda Lambert is the
reigning ACM Female Vocalist of the Year, having been bestowed this honor for
eight consecutive years. Her accolades include 2 Grammy Awards, 12 (CMA)
Country Music Associations Awards, and 28 (ACM) Academy of Country Music Awards
as well as many other honors, including the prestigious Harmony Award from the
Nashville Symphony.
The Texas native released her most recent effort, a double album titled The Weight of These Wings in November 2016, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.
She touts six studio albums to her repertoire; Kerosene (2005), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007), Revolution (2009), Four The Record (2011) and Platinum (2014), the latter earning Lambert a GRAMMY Award for Best Country Album, in addition to her previous GRAMMY win for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2010 for “The House That Built Me.”
The first song released from The Weight Of These Wings, “Vice,” received multiple Grammy and ACM Award nominations. Her third single, “Tin Man”, is currently at Country Radio.
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The Texas native released her most recent effort, a double album titled The Weight of These Wings in November 2016, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.
She touts six studio albums to her repertoire; Kerosene (2005), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007), Revolution (2009), Four The Record (2011) and Platinum (2014), the latter earning Lambert a GRAMMY Award for Best Country Album, in addition to her previous GRAMMY win for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2010 for “The House That Built Me.”
The first song released from The Weight Of These Wings, “Vice,” received multiple Grammy and ACM Award nominations. Her third single, “Tin Man”, is currently at Country Radio.
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