IFPI Platinum Europe - Certifications for April 2003
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April's awards sees five previous Platinum Europe Award winners earn new gongs - four of them with new albums.
Christina Aguilera's Stripped is honoured with its first Platinum Europe Award. The album, written by Aguilera and Scott Storch, who also produced, contains two singles already huge hits: Dirrty and Beautiful, with a third Fighter, due for release in June. Aguilera has a busy touring schedule planned. Playing in the USA from June with Justin Timberlake, she begins her solo European tour in Hamburg, Germany in September.
Linkin Park's Meteora, released in March, has quickly achieved its first Platinum Europe Award for sales of one million in Europe - picking up ten national gold awards and a national platinum award on the way. Meteora follows its predecessor the multi-million selling debut Hybrid Theory, which has garnered a double PE Award.
Madonna is one of the most successful-ever Platinum Europe artists. With its first Platinum Europe Award, American Life is her sixth IFPI Platinum Award winning-album - and brings her total of awards to 20. The album shipped over one million in Europe in its first week of release, and topped the charts in eight European countries.
t.A.T.u. - not content with being the first Russian act to gain a Platinum Europe Award, back in May of last year, has also hit the one million European sales mark with 200KM/H In The Wrong Lane - the English language version of the duo's debut album 200 Po Vstrechnoy. Herbert Grönemeyer's Mensch gains another million sales, and a further Platinum Europe award, following his double Platinum award for the album in November 2002.
