It was the first rap group to have a Top 10 album on the pop charts, the first to have a gold and platinum album, and the first nominated for a Grammy.

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With this increased exposure, the song vaulted into the national Top Five, and the album went platinum.

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The album reached platinum last year and currently sits at more than 1.3 million copies sold.

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Every now and then there's a juggernaut that's the perfect mix of huge commercial success ( the album recently went quadruple platinum) and critical acceptance.

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The album went triple-platinum, and Mayer won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Your Body Is a Wonderland" at last year's Grammy Awards.

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Eventually they shed the hardcore aesthetics and focused on hip-hop, and in 1986 they released their debut album, the multi-platinum Licensed To Ill.

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Hancock, along with producer David Rubinson and Steve Pond (author of Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album) recently reflected on Head Hunters' creation, as well as its long-lasting impact.

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Her latest album, Femme Fatale, was certified platinum in the U.S. and the ensuing tour accounted for the bulk of her bucks.

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Steve Jobs never wrote a hit song, he never made a multi-platinum album, and he never started a record label to push talented musicians into the spotlight: Yet in the last decade the Apple co-founder became the most important figure in the music world.

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