gold record

noun

: a gold phonograph record awarded to a singer or group whose single record or album has sold at least 500,000 copies

Examples of gold record in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As a kid growing up in the Big Apple during the 1960s, Pearlman wasn’t exactly dreaming of gold records and multimillion-dollar record deals. —

Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 24 July 2024 The plaques included on the Pioneer 10 (1972) and Pioneer 11 spacecraft launched in 1973 and the gold records on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 were also time (and space) capsules, reflecting our hopes and anxieties. —

Katrina Gulliver, JSTOR Daily, 26 Apr. 2024 If TikTok is eventually banned in the U.S., at least Pavement will have a gold record to show for it. —

August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024 Besides gold records and juicy stories of life on the road, one of the above also might be the real estate agent who sells you your next home. —

Sal Cataldi, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gold record

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