Killswitch Engage has officially earned a few new sales certifications in the United States. “My Curse” went certified gold and platinum on September 10th, 2020. The track appears on the band’s gold-certified As Daylight Dies album, which the band released in 2006. The band’s Dio cover of “Holy Diver” also went gold.
These new certifications will join the band’s gold-certified 2004 album The End Of Heartache, which has also been certified gold. In the United States, a platinum album represents 1,000,000 units, while gold signifies 500,000 units. Outside of the traditional physical/digital sales, the certification factors in ta band’s digital streams/downloads with 10 permanent track downloads counting as 1 unit, and 1,500 streams of audio/video from a particular album counting as a unit.
