"Waylon and Willie" Goes Platinum

April 11th 1978

The album "Waylon and Willie" by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson is certified platinum for sales of 1 million copies.  The album released in January of 1978, spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country chart and peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The single "Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" spent 4 weeks in March at #1 on the Billboard country chart and reached only #42 on the Hot 100 in 1978.

The duo also won the Grammy in 1979 for "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" 

Track listing

Side one[edit]

1. "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce) – 2:34
2. "The Year 2003 Minus 25" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:04
3. "Pick Up the Tempo" (Willie Nelson) – 2:32
4. "If You Can Touch Her at All" (Lee Clayton) – 3:04
5. "Lookin' for a Feeling" (Waylon Jennings) – 2:38
6. "It's Not Supposed to Be That Way" (Nelson) – 3:20

Side two[edit]

1. "I Can Get Off on You" (Jennings, Nelson) – 2:24
2. "Don't Cuss the Fiddle" (Kristofferson) – 3:04
3. "Gold Dust Woman" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:00
4. "A Couple More Years" (Dennis Locorriere, Shel Silverstein) – 4:02
5. "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" (Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman) – 2:08

Platinum Album Of the Week

Our platinum album this week

(sales of 1 million)

British Steel - Judas Priest

released April 14th 1980

#4 UK Album chart
(certified Gold in the UK)

#34 Billboard Album chart
(certified Platinum in the US August 9 1989)

All songs written and composed by Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford and K.K. Downing. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rapid Fire"	4:08
2.	"Metal Gods"	4:00
3.	"Breaking the Law"	2:35
4.	"Grinder"	3:58
5.	"United"	3:35
6.	"You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise"	5:04
7.	"Living After Midnight"	3:31
8.	"The Rage"	4:44
9.	"Steeler"	4:30

Multi Platinum Tuesday

Featuring albums that have reached platinum and multi platinum sales in the US and/or the UK.

Today we are featuring one of the biggest selling albums of all time.

Metallica (The Black Album) - Metallica
released August 12th 1991
(4 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Album chart)
(1 week at #1 on the UK album chart)
This album is the best selling album in the Soundscan era of the Billboard charts which began in March of 1991.  Has sold in excess of 15 million copies and has been awarded the Diamond certification by the RIAA (10 million sold) in November of 2009.  As of 2012 they have sold 15.7 million copies of Metallica in the US alone.

Six singles were released from the album including "Enter Sandman" and "Nothing Else Matters" both of which hit the Top 10 on the UK Top 40, Sandman reaching #5 and Nothing going to #6.
"Enter Sandman" was the highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 for Metallica reaching #16 and selling over 1 million copies in the US and over 500,000 in Canada.

Track listing

All lyrics written by James Hetfield. 

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Enter Sandman"	James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett	5:31
2.	"Sad But True"	Hetfield, Ulrich	5:24
3.	"Holier Than Thou"	Hetfield, Ulrich	3:47
4.	"The Unforgiven"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	6:27
5.	"Wherever I May Roam"	Hetfield, Ulrich	6:44
6.	"Don't Tread on Me"	Hetfield, Ulrich	4:00
7.	"Through the Never"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	4:04
8.	"Nothing Else Matters"	Hetfield, Ulrich	6:28
9.	"Of Wolf and Man"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	4:16
10.	"The God That Failed"	Hetfield, Ulrich	5:08
11.	"My Friend of Misery"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Jason Newsted	6:49
12.	"The Struggle Within"	Hetfield, Ulrich	3:53