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Brigade, the tenth studio album by Heart was released in 1990, after a three-year gap between albums. It featured the single “All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You” which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album reached #3 on Billboard and #6 on the Japanese Album Charts. Here it is honored with an RIAJ (Recording Industry Association of Japan) (日本レコード協会 Nippon) certified CD award…
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Heart “Brigade” -1990 – RIJA (Certified Japanese) CD Award

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For those of you who’ve have been itching to see a 1990 RIAJ (Recording Industry Association of Japan) CD award, you’re in luck 🙂 Heart released Brigade in 1990 after a three-year gap between albums, it became the band’s sixth multi-platinum album, and added three Top 25 Billboard Hot 100 hits: “Stranded“, “I Didn’t Want […]

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Lionel Richie “Dancing On The Ceiling” – 1987 – Japanese Gold In-House LP Award

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Released in the United States in August 1986, and certified RIAA gold on October 16, 1986, Dancing On The Ceiling, was Lionel Richie’s last widely popular album, from the second stage of his amazing career. Here we see it celebrated with a unique Japanese Gold In-House Award. The presentation is also unique, being made from Hizuru “Shoo” […]

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Prince “Lovesexy” 1988 Japanese Gold CD Award

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Prince is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and actor. He has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. This Japanese CD award, measuring 9″X11″, celebrates the “Lovesexy” album, released on May 10, 1988. Cat did dance arrangements and vocals for the Lovesexy tour, which coincidentally ended in Japan. The award was […]

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Prince “Sign O’ The Times” Gold RIAJ 1988 Japanese LP Record Award

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ゴールドRIAJ日本のLPレコード大賞プリンス”時代のサイン” This Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) award celebrates the success of Prince’s “Sign O’ The Times” album, which was released on March 31, 1987. CAT (Catherine Vernice Glover) traveled with Prince as a backing vocalist and dancer on the Sign O’ The Times Tour.

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Prince & The Revolution “Parade” Japanese Platinum LP Record Award

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Prince‘s album “Parade” served as the soundtrack for his second film, Under the Cherry Moon. Here celebrated as a Japanese platinum award, it was released in March of 1986 and certified gold and platinum in the US on June 6, 1986. It reached a peak Billboard Top 200 position of #3.

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John Lennon “(Just Like) Starting Over” Japanese Platinum 45 Record Award

John Lennon released “(Just like) Starting Over” in October of 1980, just weeks before his murder on December 8th, 1980.  The song rose quickly to number one around the world and was celebrated below with a Japanese platinum award… This award is presented to Geffen Records, the label John chose to re-launch his career after […]

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