The vast majority of web­sites I have seen screw up the in­for­ma­tion when men­tion­ing Gold Record Awards for al­bums. Most implement submit-1974 cri­te­ria stan­dards to awards cer­ti­fied from 1958 by way of 1974. on their Blue­chicken Records im­print. (Cu­ri­ous­ly, RCA hasn't sub­mit­ted this record for the RIAA for of­fi­cial https://goldrecordoutlet.com/lp-record-display/