That’s because its label, Polydor, hasn’t asked for a re-certification in sixteen years. Pet Sounds may have stalled at No.10 in the US after its release in May 1966, but any disappointment at its. For instance, according to the RIAA, the blockbuster soundtrack to Grease, which continues to sell nearly a million copies each year according to Soundscan, is only eight-times platinum. In 2012, Mike Love suggested Pet Sounds was the work of a man at the top of his game as avant garde as pop has ever got, blowing his popular image as the villain of the Beach Boys story out of the water. That means the RIAA only acts when a label makes a formal certification, or a re-certification, request. It followed in the wake of Beach Boys Party, the group’s 1965 album of covers that included. The RIAA only certifies albums when a record company provides, for verification, all the shipping documentation on a specific title. Pet Sounds was the band’s 12th album in the space of five, hectic, and intensely productive, years. The answer to the Pet Sounds riddle lies in the certification process. Listen to Pet Sounds (Original Mono & Stereo Mix) on Spotify. (SoundScan and RIAA sales measurements are apples and oranges SoundScan counts individual album copies sold, RIAA counts totals shipped out to stores.) Listen to Pet Sounds (Original Mono & Stereo Mix). And besides, according to SoundScan, which has been tracking sales digitally since 1991, Pet Sounds has sold 210,000 copies in just the last nine years. Did it really take thirty-four years of selling just 15,000 copies annually for Pet Sounds to reach the 500,000 mark? By contrast, last year’s debut album from R&B singer Angie Stone was certified gold just four months after its release. Odd because the album, which boasts such classics as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and is considered by rock historians to be one of the most influential records of all time, was released way back in 1966. Buried among the pile of albums certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for the month of February, was this oddity: Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.
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