Fellow artistes, fans, haters, sprangas, hangers-on and others; I hope you're reading and taking note. Today is going to be a short mathematical exercise where I reveal the number of album copies you have to sell to 'go platinum' in T+T. For the uninitiated, 'going platinum' in the US means that you've sold 1 million copies of your album after which the specified artiste receives a platinum plaque in commemoration of the auspicious moment from the RIAA (a US organization that takes note of these 'useful' facts). The population of Trinidad and Tobago is like 1.3 million in total so its obvious that selling 1 million copies of anything on the island shifts to the wrong side of impossible especially since you know how divisive we can be sometimes. Anyways, on to the math.
Population of US: 301,139,947 (July 2007 est.)
US Platinum criteria = 1000000 copies sold
Population of Trinidad = 1,056,608 (July 2007 est.)
Trinidad Platinum criteria = (1,056,608 x 1000000) / 301,139,947 = 3508.694 (3500) copies
So you have to sell 3500 copies of your album to 'go platinum' in Trinidad.
Scene. So I did a likkle cross multiplication which is a basic concept if you understand ratio and if you don't well...tough. With this figure in mind it would be interesting to note how many times the popular T+T artistes like Machel, Bunji, Shurwayne etc went platinum if not double platinum on the island. Anyone with sales figures is free to hit me up. Face out.
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