HW: For sale

[M Holmes]

Doug Pearson writes:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:30:41 +0100, Captain Bl at ck <starfield at SUPANET.COM>
> wrote:
> >Anybody know how many records you have to sell to get a platinum disc?
>
> In the USA, it's a million copies (1,000,000).  Obviously, it makes sense
> that it would be a smaller number for the smaller UK market (as described
> in Si's post).  I certainly can't imagine Hawkwind being a platinum-
> selling band (except perhaps in the list's collective dreams), though.  The
> theory that it's a silver album, not a platinum one, makes lots of sense to
> me ...

I thought I could remember a platinum Warrior for sale at one point but
perhaps I dreamt it.

FoFP