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RIAA Best Selling Debut Albums

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Name the debut albums to achieve at least 3x platinum certification by the RIAA. In a handful of cases the artist may have released an album before that couldn’t have qualified (i.e. only in their country, not released in the US). First two words of album name acceptable for longer names. Number of certs, year of release, and type of artist shown.

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TTOMO

2 years ago

Facelift by Alice In Chains just went triple platinum last year.

Klinkhamer

3 years ago

Tool’s debut LP is now 3x Platinum so an update is justified 🙂

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darin

3 years ago

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done.

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