Canadian Recording Industry Association

Music Canada

Music Canada (formerly The Canadian Recording Industry Association) is a non-profit trade organization that was founded in 1964 to represent the interests of Canadian companies that create, manufacture and market sound recordings in Canada. The organization is based in Toronto.^[1]

CRIA is governed by a board of directors who are elected annually by CRIA members. To be eligible for election a candidate for the board must be among the chief executive officers of member companies of the organization. Graham Henderson (Universal Music Canada) is the current president of the CRIA.

Album certifications

The CRIA certifications for albums are:

• 40,000 units: Gold
• 80,000 units: Platinum
• 1,000,000 units: Diamond ^[2]

Note: Multi-Platinum refers to how many times the album has reached 100,000 units sold.

Other websites

• Canadian Recording Industry Association Website Archived 2011-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
• London Free Press article on the decision^{[permanent dead link]}
• Full text of the decision (PDF) Archived 2004-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
• CBC: CRIA wants tougher internet piracy law in Canada
• CRIA Falling Apart Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Demonoid Archived 2010-11-07 at WebCite

References