DEMO Announces New Round of Digital Music
Certification Awards and Continues to Make History
DEMO has announced its latest round of digital music sales awards and
recently issued ten certification awards including two major firsts in digital
music history.
NEW YORK, NY December 4, 2005 -- DEMO: Digital & Electronic Music
Organization, Inc. (www.d-e-m-o.com)
announced its latest round of digital music sales awards and recently issued ten
certification awards. There were two major first in digital music history. Gwen
Stefani was honored for being the first artist in music business history to
achieve digital music sales of 1,000,000 plus for a single, 'Hollaback Girl'.
Prince, the Minneapolis-based musical genius, was honored for achieving album
sales of 1,000,000 plus for his four CD set album 'Crystal Ball', the very first
album to achieve such a monumental sales plateau via the Internet.
CD Baby was honored for selling a cumulative of 10,000,000 units of all
independents through the Internet. In accepting the award on behalf of CD Baby,
Derek Sivers, the President of CD Baby, said, "We're deeply honored to accept
this award. Really CD Baby should get none of the credit, as we're just a tool
that 100,000 musicians have used to sell their music directly to the world.
Still, we'll be glad to accept it, to keep doing what we're doing." Andre Gray,
inventor of online music sales certifications and the first person in the world
to hand out these certification awards stated, "The success of CD Baby to sell
10,000,000 units of artists who were virtually unknown is indeed a very
noteworthy and monumental achievement. The contribution of Derek Sivers to the
digital music revolution is tantamount to that of Steve Jobs and, in some cases,
more impressive..."
Apple was honored for selling a mind-boggling 500,000,000 downloads and
50,000,000 downloads in Europe. These sales figures are greater than all other
digital music store sales figures combined. Sir Mix-A-Lot was honored for
selling 500,000 downloaded ringtones of a remix of his classic hit 'Pick up the
Phone (Baby Got Back)'. In other ringtones certifications news, 50 Cent was
awarded two certification awards for selling 1,000,000 digital downloaded
ringtones of the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and 500,000 digital downloaded
ringtones of the album 'The Massacre'. The Game was also honored for selling
500,000 digital downloaded ringtones of the album 'The Documentary'. And Snoop
Dogg, the legendary rapper, was honored for selling 500,000 digital downloaded
ringtones of his album 'Snoop Dogg R&G: Rhythm & Gangsta The Masterpiece'.
DEMO: Digital & Electronic Music Organization, Inc. (www.d-e-m-o.com)
provides online music sales certifications on a global scale. Andre Gray,
inventor of online music sales certifications on a global scale, envisioned the
concept of DEMO on October 9, 1999, to create an organization that will award
certifications for secured electronic music sales (SEMS) over the internet. The
primary purpose of DEMO is to create a global de facto standard for online music
sales and to promote all the musical genres of the world as a unifying force.
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