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This is the first time digital streams have been included

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has included digitally streamed music to its Gold & Platinum (G&P) Program for the first time.

The RIAA's G&P Program is an awards event created in 1958 to honor artists and their various achievements. Usually this is based on a sales format, but for the first time, the RIAA has recognized digital streaming music as well.

The digital music chosen in the awards came from on-demand services like MOG, Muve Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, Xbox Music, etc. as well as video streaming services like VEVO, Yahoo! Music, YouTube and MTV.com.

The RIAA is awarding 11 Gold, 18 Platinum and 27 multi-Platinum combined Digital Single Awards.

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http://www.dailytech.com/RIAA+Acknowledges+Digital+Streams+for+Artist+Awards/article31526.htm

The weakest artist now has a
better chance of being Pimp Juice.
If they could track/include DL's that
would be a real problem.