The Recording Industry Association of America added song streams to its Gold & Platinum (G&P) Program in 2013, which helped fuel a record-breaking 663 Digital Single Awards—a 25% increase year-over-year and the most in G&P history.

“In a landmark year for our half-a-century-old Gold & Platinum Program, RIAA added music streams to awards to better recognize artists’ commercial success in a transformative marketplace,” said Cary Sherman, RIAA chairman and CEO. 

Among the Christian market music honors were Duck Dynasty’s The Robertsons, which went Platinum with Christmas album Duck the Halls (Universal Records Nashville/Capitol Christian Distribution). Chris Tomlin’s singles “I Will Rise,” from 2008’s Hello Love, and “I Will Follow,” from 2010’s And If Our God Is for Us… (both sixstepsrecords/Capitol Christian) received Gold status in the digital single category.

Laura Story’s “Blessings” (from Fair Trade Services/Capitol Christian’s Blessings) achieved Gold certification in the digital single category, and is her first song to do so. Matt Redman also received his first Gold for “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)” from his sixstepsrecords/Capitol Christian album 10,000 Reasons.

Third Day’s 2007 Chronology albums (both Essential Records/Provident Distribution) each received Multi-Platinum status in the video longform category, as the albums are two-disc CD/DVD sets. The Multi-Platinum sales mark for video longform titles is 200,000 copies sold.

The sales thresholds in the album and digital single categories are 500,000 for Gold, 1 million for Platinum and 2 million for Multi-Platinum.

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