Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever soundtrack 70s RSO label award
Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever soundtrack RSO record label award. The soundtrack to the classic film was released on Jan. 7, 1977 and while this is not a RIAA award, the track was in fact certified Gold by the RIAA on Nov. 22, 1977 for 500,000 copies sold. This award represents the very first success of what would become nothing short of a smash, landing at #20 the RIAA's list of top selling albums of all time in the U.S. at 16 million copies sold. Filled with legendary Bee Gees hits along with tracks from Kool & the Gang, KC & the Sunshine Band, Yvonne Elliman, The Trammps and more. The album went to #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, where it stayed 24 weeks in a row from January to July 1978. The album remained on Billboard's album charts until March 1980 -- 120 weeks. It also topped the charts in the UK, spending 18 weeks at #1, and won the Grammy award for Album of the Year. It would go on to be certified an impressive 16x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA by 2017, becoming