Every recording artist will keep in mind their first gold report, however Disturbed’s Dan Donegan has a considerably humorous purpose for remembering it. Sharing through the band’s socials images and movies from that big day, he notes that the band is holding a Don Henley plaque moderately than one signifying gross sales for The Sickness album.
Despite the error, it is a day that Donegan nonetheless recollects as one of many favourite reminiscences from the band’s profession. So how did this odd photograph documenting the second occur?
“This is the very end of our very first Ozzfest in 2000 and we were in California at the time and there’s people from our record label and this is us receiving our very first gold record for The Sickness,” says Donegan. “So from the beginning of that summer playing Ozzfest, we were one of the first bands to play at like 10 in the morning and then by the end of that tour, that two-month tour, we were selling so many records at that point, we sold 500,000 records by the end of summer there.”
As for that photograph shared within the video, the guitarist says, “I’ll never forget when they presented with that record, they didn’t have time to make the new plaques, so they gave us, I think that was a Don Henley record or something for the photo op because we didn’t have it in time to be made for that photo op.”
As it seems, a gold report was only the start of a really profitable profession for the group. The Sickness, the band’s debut album from 2000, has since gone on to be licensed 5 instances platinum by the RIAA. Other platinum licensed albums embrace Believe (two instances platinum) Ten Thousand Fists (two instances platinum), Immortalized (platinum) and Indestructible (platinum).
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