Wednesday 16 August 2017

Miranda Lambert’s award-winning song “Vice”reaches Platinum

MIRANDA LAMBERT’S AWARD-WINNING SONG “VICE”
REACHES PLATINUM

TWO-TIME GRAMMY NOMINATED SONG
CERTIFIED PLATINUM BY RIAA
Photo Credit: Daniela Federici

Nashville, TN -- Vanner Records/RCA Records Nashville GRAMMY Award-winner Miranda Lambert’s critically acclaimed and award winning song “Vice” is now certified PLATINUM by the RIAA.

The newly PLATINUM song, “Vice,” that received (* but didn’t win) GRAMMY and ACM nods for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song as well as SINGLE OF THE YEAR, SONG OF THE YEAR (artist and songwriter), and VIDEO OF THE YEAR respectively was co-written by Lambert along with fellow GRAMMY Award-winning songwriters Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.

RIAA Certifications
Platinum = 1-million units (which also includes streaming units)
150 on-demand streams = 1 track download
Vice (RCA Nashville) was first released on July 18, 2016. It had opening week sales of 64,000 copies and 14.6 million audience impression, prompting it to debut at No.1 on Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart and No.2 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming her highest debuting single on that chart, beating the number five debut of "Somethin' Bad."
On the Billboard Country Digital Singles Chart (Chart issue week of Feb 4, 2017) “Vice” was placed at #58 with total sales 494,000  On March 6, 2017 it was at #99 having passed the GOLD marker at retail with total sales (* excluding streaming) of 508K.

Just a little over a year removed from it hitting the Country Radio airwaves “Vice” now stands tall with PLATINUM status in addition to appearing on the album The Weight of These Wings also touting PLATINUM.

The song “that points Lambert in a new direction” [Rolling Stone] was the first taste of music from the singer/songwriter’s sixth studio album The Weight of These Wings, that Lambert’s overwhelming fan base received when it hit the Country Radio airwaves in July 2016.

The PLATINUM album released on November 18, arriving at No.1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart with 122k albums sold and No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 all genre Chart with 133k total consumption.

The Weight Of These Wings features 24 songs and was produced by Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf, and Eric Masse.

About Miranda Lambert: 
Vanner Records/RCA Records Nashville singer/songwriter Miranda Lambert is the reigning ACM Female Vocalist of the Year, having been bestowed this honor for eight consecutive years. Her accolades include 2 Grammy Awards, 12 (CMA) Country Music Associations Awards, and 28 (ACM) Academy of Country Music Awards as well as many other honors, including the prestigious Harmony Award from the Nashville Symphony.

The Texas native released her most recent effort, a double album titled The Weight of These Wings in November 2016, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. She touts six studio albums to her repertoire; Kerosene (2005), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007), Revolution (2009), Four The Record (2011) and Platinum (2014), the latter earning Lambert a GRAMMY Award for Best Country Album, in addition to her previous GRAMMY win for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2010 for “The House That Built Me.”  The first song released from The Weight Of These Wings, “Vice,” received multiple Grammy and ACM Award nominations. Her third single, “Tin Man”, is currently at Country Radio.
 
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