ARIA Accreditations are based on sales from ARIA Member Wholesalers to Retailers. The current ARIA Accreditation levels are as follows:
Singles
Gold: 35,000 units
Platinum: 70,000 units
Albums
Silver: 20,000 units
Gold: 35,000 units
Platinum: 70,000 units
Diamond: 500,000 units
Music Videos (including Audio Visual DVDs)
Gold: 7,500 units
Platinum: 15,000 units
ARIA Silver Awards
- Only issued in relation to product distributed by ARIA members
- Only awarded to albums by Australian artists
- 20,000 unit threshold needs to be achieved within three years of the album’s initial release
- Only applicable to albums released after 1 January 2021
- All other details as per the Gold and Platinum Awards below
ARIA Gold and Platinum Awards
- Only issued in relation to product distributed by ARIA members.
- Issued based on a declaration received from the principal financial officer of the member, certifying the net Australian wholesale sales to date (across all formats) of a particular release.
- Variants of releases may be aggregated for the purpose of accreditation providing the variants meet the chart aggregation criteria (see ARIA’s Code of Practice for ARIA Charts).
- ARIA, on receipt of an appropriately completed declaration, logs the accreditation against the release information held in the ARIA database, issues a certification letter and forwards to the member company with the required number (up to a maximum of 5 per release) of ARIA accreditation seals.
- Accreditation seals may only be affixed to, or incorporated into the art work of, ARIA accredited product.
- The accreditation takes effect from the date the ARIA confirmation letter is issued.
- The accreditation level of a particular release will be displayed on any ARIA chart published that includes that release, after the effective accreditation date.
- ARIA will note in its database and publish on its charts details of multi platinum achievement. Member companies must submit an accreditation application form updating the net Australian wholesale sales level for this to occur. Additional seals will not be issued.
- The introduction or amendment of accreditation levels will be at the discretion of the ARIA Board, generally following recommendations from its Chart & Marketing Committee.
Resources
Latest accreditations
Accreditation application form (PDF)
Silver Accreditation application form (PDF)
Pro forma ARIA confirmation letter (example: Gold Single) (PDF)
