Gold (certification)
Pronunciation: /go-old/
Also known as: Gold selling, Gold status, Gold single, Gold album, Certified gold
What does Gold mean?
500 thousand (500,000) copies of a single or an album sold.
Other music certifications: Platinum, Multi-Platinum, Diamond
Example sentence: “Wow that song went gold so fast.”
Gold in songs:
“I’m on the sixth record off the album going gold” – Big Sean, What A Year.
“Now I’m fresh up in the game, and I already went gold” – Russ, I’m Here.
“Only rapper went gold without a verse from Hov” – Meek Mill, All The Way Up (Remix).