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Test your music knowledge with the RIAA Most Certifications By Year Quiz. Name the albums with the highest total RIAA certifications based on their release year.

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RIAA Most Certifications By Year

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Name the albums based on the year they were released with the highest total RIAA certs. Each platinum cert counts as 1 and gold counts as 0.5. Ties are included. Total certs and year shown. (GH) refers to a greatest hits album, (Live) refers to a Live album – name the artist for these. (Various) refers to a compilation album by various artists. (ST) refers to a soundtrack, name the film/production.

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Klinkhamer

2 years ago

This one could be expanded to -for instance- top 25 certifications by year 🙂

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