With Diamond Award Certification, The Doors Records Join Select Few 10 Million Plus Sellers

The Best of The Doors, the compilation of hits from The Doors records released throughout the band’s short lived career, has been awarded Diamond Certification. For those in the know, the RIAA tracks CD and record sales and has awarded Diamond status (that’s also known as 10 x Platinum) to only 104 releases in its history. Along with The Best of The Doors, Rhino publishes dozens of other Doors CDs, including remastered versions of The Doors records, the Perception box set collection and The Band box set of seven limited edition vinyl albums (dressed in faux lizard skin, naturally). Doors singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, one in a long line of rock front men (and women) who have died prematurely. Fans of New Order cds likely know that the Manchester band was created when Joy Division singer Ian Curtis committed suicide; the rest of the band stayed together and vowed to continue recording but changed their name to New Order. The three surviving Doors members, (John Densmore, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger) put their differences and feuding over use of the band’s name aside at least momentarily to accept their Diamond Award in New York City. Interestingly, given that Diamond indicates sales of over 10 million copies, every single person l...