Well I read a post about who'll be the last Platinum seller, and had to post this....

Jason Aldean is in elite — and extremely sparse — company in 2014's heavy metal club.

The country star is one of only three artists to achieve RIAA platinum sales certification on an album released this year. His Old Boots, New Dirt LP, which debuted at the top of Billboard's all-genre Top 200 chart in October, has now shipped more than one million units. That means he's the only country star to release a platinum-seller in 2014, and joins only Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande in platinum album certifications for collections released this year.

Old Boots, New Dirt had more than three million Spotify streams during its first week, setting the record for the biggest country album debut on the music streaming service.

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How much did it sell though?

By November 26th, his album sold 556,000 copies. after that, album sales wise he sold 31000 and then 29000 this past week. If we include streams from the December 3rd date, he would get 5000 and 5000 streams for the past two weeks that included streams.

So albums sold (no streams): 616,000
With streams: 626,000


November 26th
December 3rd
December 10th

All information is courtesy of RoughStock, which uses Soundscan numbers

Oh, so he didn't actually hit platinum. Sad year for country music usually at least one album sells it.