Industrial Rock Sales and Awards - Other Certifications

Other Certifications

These below are the sales figures and certifications gathered from sources other than the official Music Industry Associations sites and Nielsen Soundscans.

• Burton C. Bell said that Fear Factory earned two gold records in Australia, but he doesn't specify which two were certified. On Raymond Herrera's LinkedIn profile, though, it is revealed that these awards went to the Demanufacture (1995) and Obsolete (1998) records.

• In an 2003 interview, Sascha Konietzko told The Culture Shock site that KMFDM's Soundscan sales rounded up to about 2 million units sold in the US.

• Other sources point out that Oomph's Augen Auf! is actually a platinum certified single in Germany and its parent album, Wahrheit oder Pflicht (2004), has already reached the gold status.

• Prick's self-titled debut (1995) sold about 66,000 units and its follow-up, The Wreckard (2002), sold over 3 thousand copies.

• Rammstein received a gold award in Belgium for 2001's Mutter. They also received a platinum award for Rosenrot (2005) in the Czech Republic.

• Though mysteriously absent from Germany's IFPI database, Rammstein's Rosenrot went platinum one month after its release. By the end of the year, the said record went 2x platinum.

• Rammstein received a Word Sales Award in December 2005 for selling over 10 million copies around the globe. Their current sales number worldwide has surpassed the 14 million mark.

• Rob Zombie has sold more than 15 million records worldwide, according to Roadrunner's news site.

• The RIAA's internet database might not be entirely accurate. Other sources point out that White Zombie's Astro Creep: 2000 has gone 3x platinum and Rob's American Made Music to Strip By has already reached gold status.

• According to Soundscan numbers, NIN's With Teeth should have been certified platinum by now.