List of certified albums in Canada
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This is list of albums that have been certified Gold, Platinum, and Diamond by Music Canada. Certification is based on the following table:
| Certification | For releases before May 1, 2008[1] | For releases after May 1, 2008[1] |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | 50,000 | 40,000 |
| Platinum | 100,000 | 80,000 |
| Diamond | 1,000,000 | 800,000 |
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Gold[edit]
- 0304
- 21 at 33
- A Night to Remember
- Ace Frehley
- Agents of Fortune
- The Album
- Alive III
- Alive!
- All Jacked Up
- All Shook Up
- All Things Must Pass
- All You Can Eat
- American Gangster
- American Saturday Night
- Angel Clare
- Asylum
- Attack & Release
- A Year Without Rain
- Bananaphone
- Bare
- Better Be Home Soon
- Black Butterfly
- Blonde
- Blue Moves
- Born to Fly
- Box Car Racer
- Brainwashed
- Brave New World
- British Steel
- Brushfire Fairytales
- Buckcherry
- Burlesque
- Busted
- Ceremonials
- Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
- Charmbracelet
- Chickenfoot
- Come What(ever) May
- The Concert in Central Park
- Curb
- Currents
- Dangerous Acquaintances
- Dark Sky Island
- Death of a Bachelor
- Debut
- Deftones
- Disclaimer II
- Dive
- The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
- Double Live Gonzo!
- Double Platinum
- Dreaming of You
- Dreaming Out Loud
- Eagles Live
- Echo
- Escapology
- Evanescence
- Everywhere We Go
- Faceless
- Fear Inoculum
- Feeling Strangely Fine
- Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces
- Fire of Unknown Origin
- Flowers in the Dirt
- The Foundation
- Free-for-All
- Gene Simmons
- Get Closer
- Get Happy!!
- Godsmack
- God's Son
- Going Back
- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
- Graffiti Bridge
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits
- The Greyest of Blue Skies
- Harem
- Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago
- Hesitation Marks
- Hit and Run
- Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
- Hooked
- Horizon
- Horse of a Different Color
- The House of Blue Light
- I Care 4 U
- If You See Him
- Illmatic
- Innuendo
- Inside Job
- Introducing Joss Stone
- Irresistible
- It's Not Me, It's You
- It Was Written
- Joy to the World
- Karma and Effect
- Kiss
- Kiss Symphony: Alive IV
- Kiss & Tell
- Last of the Ghetto Astronauts
- Led Zeppelin Boxed Set
- Les chemins de ma maison
- Lick It Up
- Life Is Peachy
- Lights and Sounds
- The Listening
- Live: Right Here, Right Now
- Lonerism
- Lotus
- Love Always
- Love on the Inside
- Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits
- Lungs
- Machina/The Machines of God
- Melt
- Mélanie
- Memory Almost Full
- Milk and Honey
- Modern Day Drifter
- My Aim Is True
- My Kinda Party
- Musicology
- Nastradamus
- Neon Bible
- Now for Plan A
- Now or Never
- Au cœur du stade
- Ocean Avenue
- Off the Ground
- Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
- On and On
- Once Bitten
- Painkiller
- Part II
- Paul Stanley
- Peter Criss
- Pinkerton
- Plastic Beach
- Playing the Angel
- Poses
- Pray for the Wicked
- Pretty Hate Machine
- Priest...Live!
- Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
- Psycho Circus
- Ram It Down
- The Red Shoes
- Release the Stars
- Reptile
- Reveal
- Revenge
- Royal Blood
- Say You Will
- Scream Dream
- The Screen Behind the Mirror
- See You on the Other Side
- Sempiternal
- The Sensual World
- Simply Deep
- Smile and Wave
- Soul Searchin'
- Songs from the West Coast
- The Sound of Madness
- State of Shock
- Sticks and Stones
- Still I Rise
- Stillmatic
- Storm in the Heartland
- Street's Disciple
- Stronger
- Symphony
- Tailgates & Tanlines
- Talk on Corners
- Tango
- Ted Nugent
- Teeth and Tissue
- That's the Spirit
- This Year's Model
- Time Well Wasted
- Title of Record
- Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
- Torches
- Twice the Speed of Life
- Twisted Angel
- Under the Desert Sky
- Unmasked
- The Very Best of Prince
- Vessel
- Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter
- Vulgar Display of Power
- Watermark
- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
- What My Heart Already Knows
- Whatever and Ever Amen
- When the Sun Goes Down
- White Pony
- Who Needs Pictures
- The Whole Story
- Wild Life
- A Winter Symphony
- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon
- You Get What You Give
- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
- The Youth of Today
Platinum[edit]
- 10,000 Days
- 15
- 1999
- 808s & Heartbreak
- À l'Olympia
- Ænima
- Aerial
- Alanis
- Alive II
- All Eyez on Me
- All I Ever Wanted
- All the World's a Stage
- Amore
- Andrea
- Animalize
- Appeal to Reason
- Aria: The Opera Album
- Armed Forces
- Artpop
- Awake
- B'Day
- Back to Black
- Believe
- Belinda
- The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere
- The Best of Sade
- The Big Picture
- The Black Album
- The Black Parade
- Black Sabbath Vol. 4
- Bleed American
- The Blueprint
- The Blueprint 3
- Bounce
- Bridges to Babylon
- Broken
- Broken English
- But Seriously, Folks...
- C'mon, C'mon
- Cat Scratch Fever
- Cheek to Cheek
- Chuck
- The Circle
- Classics
- The College Dropout
- Come On Over
- The Concert
- Counterparts
- Crazy Nights
- Damita Jo
- Dangerously in Love
- Day & Age
- Defenders of the Faith
- Defying Gravity
- Different Stages
- Dirt
- Diver Down
- The Documentary
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles
- Eden
- The Ego Has Landed
- Emancipation
- Endgame
- Elvis' Golden Records
- Everything Now
- Exit... Stage Left
- Eye to the Telescope
- Fair Warning
- Fantasies
- Far Beyond Driven
- A Farewell to Kings
- Feels Like Today
- Femme Fatale
- A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
- Finger Eleven
- Fly by Night
- For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
- Freedom (Akon album)
- Get It on Credit
- Girls' Night Out
- Grace Under Pressure
- The Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits, Etc.
- Greatest Hits: 18 Kids
- Green
- Hail to the King
- Have a Nice Day
- Head On
- Heaven Tonight
- Hemispheres
- Here for the Party
- Hold Your Fire
- Hot Fuss
- Hot in the Shade
- Hounds of Love
- How the West Was Won
- Hymns of the 49th Parallel
- I Am... (Nas album)
- I Look to You
- I Need You
- The Id
- In Color
- Indestructible
- Iowa
- Is This It
- It's Your Call
- Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
- JoJo
- Journeyman
- The Kick Inside
- The Last Temptation
- Lady Antebellum
- Lap of Luxury
- LeAnn Rimes
- Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
- Life Starts Now
- Lionheart
- Live It Out
- Lookin' for Trouble
- Love Hurts
- Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New
- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
- La Luna
- Made in Heaven
- Magna Carta Holy Grail
- Make Believe
- Me and My Gang
- Mechanical Animals
- The Memory of Trees
- Mended
- Mercury Falling
- Metals
- Music from the Edge of Heaven
- My December
- Never for Ever
- A New Flame
- Nightmare
- No Fixed Address
- No Line on the Horizon
- Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
- ...Nothing Like the Sun
- The Nylon Curtain
- Off the Wall
- One of These Nights
- Out of the Blue
- Own the Night
- Peace
- Perfect Strangers
- Permanent Waves
- Picture of Health
- Pipes of Peace
- Planet Pit
- Play On
- Power Windows
- Presto
- Prism
- Quelqu'un m'a dit
- Racine carrée
- Ram
- Recovery
- Red Rose Speedway
- Return of Saturn
- Revival
- Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
- Rock of the Westies
- Rock Steady
- Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!
- Roll the Bones
- Rule 3:36
- Runaway Horses
- Savage
- Screaming for Vengeance
- See Forever Eyes
- Sentimento
- Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
- A Show of Hands
- The Sickness
- Signals
- A Single Man
- Siren Song of the Counter Culture
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Slipknot
- Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
- Smells Like Children
- Smoke + Mirrors
- Songs of Faith and Devotion
- Soul
- The Soul Cages
- The Soul Sessions
- Spirit
- The State
- Still Crazy After All These Years
- Still Waters
- Stronger Than Pride
- The Sufferer & the Witness
- Synthetica
- Taylor Swift
- Tellement j'ai d'amour...
- Ten Summoner's Tales
- Ten Thousand Fists
- Thank Me Later
- Thankful
- Them vs. You vs. Me
- Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
- Three Days Grace
- To the Sea
- Too Low for Zero
- Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
- Trench
- Turbo
- Turn Blue
- U218 Singles
- Unchained Melody: The Early Years
- Under Rug Swept
- Underdogs
- Undertow
- Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
- Venus and Mars
- Verdi
- Very
- The Very Best of Cher
- The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
- Viaggio Italiano
- Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
- Watch the Throne
- Weekend Warriors
- Weezer (Green Album)
- Wings Greatest
- With Teeth
- Working on a Dream
- The Works
Multi-platinum[edit]
Two times[edit]
- 2112
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Adore
- A Head Full of Dreams
- Animal
- Antichrist Superstar
- Aquarius
- Armageddon
- As I Am
- Awake
- Back to the Egg
- Be Here
- Bedtime Stories
- Best Of – Volume I
- Beautiful Midnight
- The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
- Brand New Day
- By the Way
- Cieli di Toscana
- Collision Course
- The Cross of Changes
- Crush
- D'elles
- Diamond Life
- Diamonds and Pearls
- Dion chante Plamondon
- Diva
- Dynasty
- The End of the Innocence
- Evolve
- Fever
- The Fragile
- From Under the Cork Tree
- Funeral
- Ghost Stories
- Golden Road
- Graduation
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits Volume Two
- Heaven on Earth
- Here and Now
- Highway to Hell
- I Am... Sasha Fierce
- Incognito
- Ingénue
- Issues
- It Won't Be the Last
- Ixnay on the Hombre
- J.Lo
- Late Registration
- Lateralus
- Legend
- Live After Death
- Live à Paris
- Loud
- Made in England
- Marc Anthony
- MCMXC a.D.
- Medusa
- Most Wanted
- My Love: Essential Collection
- New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- Nothing But The Beat
- A New World Record
- Older
- One Love
- One-X
- Oral Fixation Vol. 2
- Parachutes
- PCD
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Piece of Mind
- Powerslave
- Reg Strikes Back
- ReLoad
- Revenge
- The Rhythm of the Saints
- Rock 'n Soul Part 1
- The Seeds of Love
- The Singles 1992–2003
- Sleeping with the Past
- The Slim Shady LP
- (Songbook) A Collection of Hits
- Sorry for Party Rocking
- Storm Front
- The Suburbs
- The Sweet Escape
- These Days
- Toto IV
- Toxicity
- True Colors
- Tubular Bells
- ...Twice Shy
- Until the End of Time
- Us
- Van Halen II
- The Very Best Of
- Violator
- Vuelve
- We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
- Who Are You
- Women and Children First
- You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs
Three times[edit]
- 5150
- All Saints
- Back to Basics
- Balance
- Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
- Batman
- The Best of 1990–2000
- Better Dayz
- Billy Talent
- Billy Talent II
- Blue
- Britney
- Brothers
- Circus
- Discovery
- Doo-Wops & Hooligans
- The Downward Spiral
- Dream Police
- The Emancipation of Mimi
- Follow the Leader
- Funhouse
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits
- In Between Dreams
- Into the Fire
- An Innocent Man
- The Massacre
- Mylo Xyloto
- Mystery Girl
- Need You Now
- The Number of the Beast
- On How Life Is
- On ne change pas
- One Heart
- The One
- Pain Is Love
- Reflektor
- River of Dreams
- Sans attendre
- Shakin' Like a Human Being
- Shepherd Moons
- Sheryl Crow
- Some Hearts
- Speak Now
- Stripped
- Teenage Dream
- Time to Say Goodbye
- Tuesday Night Music Club
- Under the Mistletoe
- Vagabond Heart
- Watermark
- Wintersong
Four times[edit]
- 52nd Street
- Adrenalize
- Blurryface
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Crazy Love
- El Camino
- Enema of the State
- Fearless
- Red
- Greatest Hits
- Heart of Stone
- Loved Me Back to Life
- The Marshall Mathers LP 2
- Metamorphosis
- Moving Pictures
- No Angel
- Only by the Night
- Parallel Lines
- Pearl
- A Rush of Blood to the Head
- Siamese Dream
- Sign o' the Times
- S'il suffisait d'aimer
- Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
- Taking Chances
- Van Halen
- Weezer (Blue Album)
Five times[edit]
- 1100 Bel Air Place
- 1984
- 8 Mile
- Breakaway
- Cheap Trick at Budokan
- ELV1S
- Escape
- Forty Licks
- Glass Houses
- Guilty
- I Dreamed a Dream
- Laundry Service
- A Little Bit of Mambo
- The Long Road
- Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
- The Razors Edge
- Sogno
- Songs in A Minor
- Spirits Having Flown
- Tango in the Night
- Under My Skin
- The Very Best of Sheryl Crow
- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
- X&Y
Six times[edit]
Seven times[edit]
Eight times[edit]
Nine times[edit]
Diamond[edit]
- 1
- 1962–1966
- 25
- All the Way... A Decade of Song
- Americana
- Appetite for Destruction
- Aquarium
- ...Baby One More Time
- Back in Black
- Backstreet Boys
- Backstreet's Back
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Breakfast in America
- Brothers in Arms
- Celine Dion
- The Colour of My Love
- Cross Road
- Dirty Dancing
- The Eminem Show
- Falling into You
- Gold: Greatest Hits
- Hotel California
- Hysteria
- Led Zeppelin
- Let's Talk About Love
- Like a Virgin
- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- Metallica
- Millennium
- Nevermind
- Reckless
- Romanza
- Ricky Martin
- Saturday Night Fever
- Some Gave All
- Savage Garden
- Spice
- The Sign
- Spiceworld
- Supernatural
- These Are Special Times
- The Joshua Tree
- Tragic Kingdom
- True Blue
- Unplugged
- Use Your Illusion I
- Waking Up the Neighbours
Double diamond[edit]
Triple diamond[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Music Canada. "Certification Definitions". Music Canada. Retrieved 2011-07-24.