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Three days earlier, &#8220;Magic&#8221; went platinum.<\/p>\n<p>The digital single certifications respectively confirm US unit totals of 2 million and 1 million.  One unit is equal to 1 paid download or 100 streams.<\/p>\n<p>As it had only been certified gold prior to Monday, &#8220;A Sky Full Of Stars&#8221; retroactively received a platinum certification.  &#8220;Magic&#8221; had not been certified at all &#8212; and thus retroactively received a gold distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Both songs appear on the band&#8217;s 2014 album &#8220;Ghost Stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[2464,1873,2144,2098],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coldplay&#039;s &quot;A Sky Full Of Stars&quot; 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