`- It says here: ``Traditionally, an American RIAA-certified gold record was a single or album that sold 500,000 units (records, tapes, and/or CDs). A platinum record was one that sold 1,000,000 units, representing typically four or five times greater sales than a gold record.``  I may be missing something, but where does the ``four or five times greater`` come in? Should it not be TWICE as many? Even if a lot of sales go by unnoticed, that same percentage should be unnoticed no matter whether they're being counted for a gold or a platinum album. Also, by the time it got to four times greater sales, it would be going DOUBLE platinum ... right?      `