1.   Even before her platinum album and all the Grammys, I was a big fan.

2.   Every wall is adorned with posters, platinum albums and snapshots.

3.   For eight years, she and her oldest daughter, Wynonna, had rocked the countryside, receiving six Grammys and a heap of platinum albums as the Judds.

4.   Halfway through the set, the president of Arista Records, Clive Davis, presented her with a platinum album for her most recent greatest-hits collection.

5.   It was the first platinum album by a solo Latino rapper.

6.   Sting admits that, after several platinum solo albums and awards, he was unaccustomed to having his work rejected.

7.   They have won shelf-loads of Dove Awards, three Grammys and have had two platinum albums and one gold.

8.   Three decades, six Grammys and dozens of platinum albums later, Feliciano, who was born blind, is still going strong.

9.   Two gold albums, a platinum album and a platinum video, three double-platinum albums and one triple-platinum album.

10.   Aaliyah had two Grammy nominations, a platinum album and several high-profile movie roles.