| Queen Awards |
 RIAA (Usa) How to recognize a US award. Record Awards are the original Gold and Platinum awards presented to music industry individuals for their help and support in breaking or developing an artist. The industry has created a few different formats for the presentation of these awards over the years. RIAA certified formats are as follows: White Matte
Floater
  A beautiful example of USA gold 45 RIAA award. Presented to Freddie Strip Plate Strip plate format is typical of 1981- 1984. This format is similar to the “Floater” format described above, except the LP mini is on the same plate that the presentation and RIAA seal is on and the RIAA logo is printed or stamped on the plate.
Hologram
Custom award, especially in USA are special awards made by RIAA with different size or with special promo picture inside. They are very beautiful and very rare, usually made for special occasion like group's conferences etc..  Unique ANATO set of 5 custom awards: one for each band member and one presented to the gropu. They feature special ANATO print and additional picture of each member inside. One of the most beatiful set of awards. Thanks to Bas Asselbergs for picture.  RIAA Innuendo customized award. This one of the most beutiful Queen awards. It came with signatures from all the band. One of the last item signed by Freddie.  This special custom award was presented by RIAA to important radios in the USA which helped Innuendo get Gold status airing the LP . It come with a Queen Production headed letter in which Queen thanks american support. Letter is signed by all four dated June 1991. Again one of the very last Freddie's official signatures.  The above is a custom RIAA award made to commemorate all the Queen Sale in USA. It was issued in a certain number of copies and sometime it appears on sale on ebat. It's from 2005. There are also record company "In house" awards that do not bear the RIAA logo. Most have the relevant record company logo in it's place.In-house style can vary. BPI UK BPI (The British Phonographic Industry) certified
awards were originally introduced in April 1973 to measure the
performance of individual records based on sales to the trade each
week. Qualification for albums was initially on the basis of revenue
received by manufacturers, and probably in January 1979 the BPI abolished the
old monetary system for albums and replaced it with a unit system. This
brought album awards into line with singles and also with other
countries where qualification levels are based on unit sales. Multi
platinum awards, introduced in February 1987, are any multiple of the
platinum level, e.g. album quadruple platinum status = 1.2m.  Jazz "UK BPI award" presented to Paul Prenter (Queen Management)
 Bycicle Race UK BPI award presented to EMI  I Want to Break Free UK BPI gold presented to Freddie
In house UK original Record award can be found. The are not commissioned by BPI but from the Record Company or the band/artist. They were produced from the same company which did the bpi ones. So same frame, same plaque same everything-- the only thing missing is the BPI logo but they are genuine items.  Flash Gordon "UK In House award" presented to Alan Douglas (Mix down engineering for the album) Remember that it's quite sure that UK awards have the original records coated while RIAA (usa ones) may use also a different record but with the original label. OTHER COUNTRIES Of course also different countries in the world issued their record award to comemorate the sale of a band within their borbers. The are very diificult to find!! They rarely follow a scheme in the structure of the award. So there are often customized award wihc are really fabolous.  Crazy Little thing called love presented to EMI Records Holland.. Very nice customized award  A kind of Magic gold record from Japan. Presented to Freddie, this was offered on auction some yrs ago and it came directly from Freddie's house.
See other wonderful Queen awards ... page two.. For more information on USA RIAA award check the official link (history, database etc) If you want to know more about UK BPI award click here |
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