{"id":64907,"date":"2016-07-09T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=64907"},"modified":"2016-07-09T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:54:24","slug":"muses-black-holes-2nd-law-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2016\/07\/09\/muses-black-holes-2nd-law-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse&#8217;s &#8220;Black Holes &#038; Revelations,&#8221; &#8220;Resistance,&#8221; &#8220;Absolution&#8221; Certified Platinum In US; &#8220;2nd Law&#8221; Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to RIAA certifications, June 28, 2016 was a very fruitful day for Muse.  Three of the band&#8217;s albums were crowned platinum in the United States, and an additional release ascended to gold status.<\/p>\n<p>The platinum certifications were issued to &#8220;Black Holes and Revelations,&#8221; &#8220;The Resistance&#8221; and &#8220;Absolution.&#8221;  Muse&#8217;s &#8220;The 2nd Law&#8221; earned the gold certification.<\/p>\n<p>Gold and platinum certifications respectively confirm US unit totals of 500,000 and 1 million.  One unit is equal to 1 album sale, 10 track sales or 1500 track streams.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned four releases are the only Muse albums with US certifications.  Muse also holds single certifications for &#8220;Madness&#8221; (platinum), &#8220;Supermassive Black Hole&#8221; (platinum), &#8220;Starlight&#8221; (platinum), &#8220;Uprising&#8221; (platinum), &#8220;Knights of Cydonia&#8221; (gold) and &#8220;Time Is Running Out&#8221; (gold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[183,1047],"tags":[6807,6805,3849,6806,6808],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Muse&#039;s &quot;Black Holes &amp; Revelations,&quot; &quot;Resistance,&quot; &quot;Absolution&quot; Certified Platinum In US; &quot;2nd Law&quot; Gold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When it comes to RIAA certifications, June 28, 2016 was a very fruitful day for Muse. 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