Live, New Korn, NIN, And Beasties Add Platinum

01/07/2000 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(1/7/00, 10 a.m. ET) - The 1999 releases from Korn, Nine Inch Nails, and Beastie Boys have all gone multi-platinum. Meanwhile, Live's classic 1994 album, Throwing Copper, recently hit the eight-times platinum mark, for sales of 8 million. Nine Inch Nails' double album The Fragile and the Beastie Boys' Sounds Of Science two-disc anthology have both reached the double-platinum mark, while Korn's Issues has topped the triple-platinum mark.

Throwing Copper was a landmark album for Live, spawning such hits as "All Over You," "Iris," "Selling The Drama," "I Alone," and "Lightning Crashes." Singer Ed Kowalczyk tells LAUNCH that much of the album still holds up and it still connects with people. "Anybody could relate to it and adopt it as their soundtrack because that was the most powerful thing for me about like a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and watching that song sort of percolate into the society, and how many people took that song and what it meant to them...It will always sort of freeze-frame a time and place in their lives because it was connected with them emotionally."

-- Darren Davis, New York

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