{"id":8035,"date":"2017-06-23T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2017-06-23T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:39:38","slug":"dark-side-gold-record-sells-for-25k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2017\/06\/dark-side-gold-record-sells-for-25k\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dark Side&#8221; gold record sells for $25k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gold-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gold record for Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; recently sold for $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>The record, signifying $1 million in sales and once owned by Floyd&#8217;s <strong>Rick Wright<\/strong>, was sold at auction by <strong>Nate D. Sanders Auctions<\/strong> in Los Angeles. Minimum bid for the item was $20,000. The winner&#8217;s identity was not made public.<\/p>\n<p>The framed record included a letter of authenticity from Wright&#8217;s first wife, Franka.<\/p>\n<p>Wright&#8217;s platinum RIAA album for &#8220;The Wall&#8221; sold in 2005 for more than $40,000.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with its inception in 1958, an album&#8217;s gold status was determined by $1 million in sales. That criterion was later amended to also require 500,000 units sold.<\/p>\n<p>Album platinum status, created in 1976, indicates 1 million units sold.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best-selling records in history, &#8220;Dark Side,&#8221; ironically, only achieved platinum status in 1990, because it was released three years before the platinum designation.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, 1998, the RIAA certified it 15\u00d7 platinum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gold record for Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; recently sold for $25,000. The record, signifying $1 million in sales and once owned by Floyd&#8217;s Rick Wright, was sold at auction by Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles. Minimum bid for the item was $20,000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-merchandise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}