A GIANT recording honour/award for The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip may be done as a recording and touring unit–there can’t be a Hip without Gord–but they continue to be as popular as ever with Canadians.
Last week, the band was presented with a 4X Diamond Award (sales of four million copies) for the 37-track Yer Favourites compilation (all tracks were selected by fans).
As far as I know, this is the only time any Canadian album has been given that award. To put things into perspective, this is equal to 14x Platinum. Nice.
Yer Favourites has seen over half a billion streams globally. It’s also the second-best selling compilation in Canadian history. Only The Beatles’ 1 collection has sold more.
The Tragically Hips 4x Diamond Award would be great. However , are you sure that it isn’t 4x Platinum? Depending on the year of release that is either 90,000 units or 100,000 units sold for 1 x Platinum.
4x Diamond sounds unbelievable. I can only think of 2 Canadian artists that have 2x diamond. Alanis and Twain.
Just checking? Thanks for the article. Regan from Tweed Ontario
Diamond in Canada equals 1 million sales of an album. In the US, it’s 10 million.
Are you sure that isn’t for an award for 4 million in total sales for The Hips , whole catalog. ? I can see Yer Favourites , maybe being 2x Diamond because double albums are counted as 2 in the count , causing it to be 4 times Diamond.
However , the last time I checked the sound scan Canada it said that Yer Favourites was , 4x Platinum? Maybe it was recently updated. ?
Still. I know that the Hip sold 3 million units of their whole catalog 20 years ago.
I also know that THE HIP has 3 Diamond albums.
Up To Here , Road Apples and Fully Completely. Just that single double album being
Yer Favourites , being 4x Diamond world be great but that doesn’t sound possible? I hope that I am wrong. Lol…