It’s been a tough year in the music business with nary a country album certified Platinum by the RIAA, until now. Broken Bow Records superstar Jason Aldean joins only Sam Smith and Taylor Swift as artists who scored Platinum RIAA Certifications for albums released in 2014.
The superstar’s latest Old Boots New Dirt opened with 280k scanned and now has enough copies in stores to garner the certification from the RIAA (which tracks album sales to retail and digital retailers and not just to retail consumers who buy physical and digital media) and also earned a Gold certification from the RIAA in the December RIAA newsletter.
“We put so much time and passion into choosing the best songs for this album, and this brings a lot of hard work full circle for me,” said Aldean. "It’s like Christmas came early! I couldn’t do it without the best country music fans in the world, who never stop believing in what I do and always follow me, even if I may take a creative left turn every now and then."
Old Boots, New Dirt joins each of Jason Aldean’s previous albums — all five of them — as platinum or multi-platinum albums, with over 10 million albums sold in his career. The album’s lead single “Burnin’ It Down” is a Platinum-certified, multi-week #1 hit and current rising hit “Just Gettin’ Started.”
Joe
What a LIE! It has NOT sold over 1 million. It might be certified but them so should The Outsiders. Church has sold 100,000+ more and isn't platinum yet. Don't care how Aldean's team tries to spin it.
Matt Bjorke
But it HAS sold 1,000,000 copies. Just that there's a few hundred thousand of them out in stores to be bought by consumers. RIAA goes by those shipments to stores, not to consumers for their Certification procedures. UMG hasn't certified yet but the album likely has enough copies in stores to satisfy RIAA rules but until labels submit to RIAA, the stuff doesn't get certified.