“Baby, It’s Gold Outside”
About those RIAA Gold and Platinum Record Awards
MUCH OF THE “INFORMATION” on the Internet about RIAA Gold and Platinum Record Awards is crap — especially if the information concerns awards made prior to 1989. By “crap” I mean that is so factually incorrect that it useless and implies that the writer is effectively clueless about the awards. This applies to the vast majority of websites, not merely the teeny-weeny sites like my own blogs. As I write this, factually incorrect data can be found on platforms such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, and — get this — the RIAA’s own website!
I would think the sites of business giants such as this would require a greater level of research and fact-checking from its representatives, but in a world where millions of people are content with “fake news” about wars and politics, who worries about “fake facts” about something as relatively trivial as the entertainment industry?
And Wikipedia is in a world of its own regarding this matter — I don’t think I have seen a single reference to an RIAA Award that was factually correct in an entry on popular music in years. But then, factually incorrect entries about rock & roll and rhythm & blues musicians and records on that platform are so common that they deserve an article or two of their own. And of course, I will get around to publishing…
