User:JohnFromPinckney

Australia / ARIA

• Determine cert year by choosing from ARIA certs pages.
• Use template: <ref>{{Cite certification |region=Australia |type=single |certyear=1998 |accessdate=December 25, 2011}}</ref>
• When not on certs page yet, but (still) on current Top 50 Singles:

<ref name="AUScurrent50">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1U50 |title=ARIA Top 50 Singles Charts: 31/10/2011 |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] |accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>

Canada / (CRIA) Music Canada

• CRIA links (do any still work?).
• Music Canada link to search and sample ref:

http://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Loud&ica=False&sa=Rihanna&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssd=9/1/2011&sed=10/1/2011&ssb=Artist

st=Title
ica=Search Canadian Artists Only. True/False
sa=Artist
sl=Label
smt=Media type. Number 1-10 from list index
sat=Award type. E.g., TRIPLE PLATINUM ALBUM(S)
ssd=Start date
sed=End date
ssb=Sort by
&ssdir=ascending/descending

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?sa=Notorious+B.I.G. |title=Gold and Platinum Search (Notorious B.I.G.) |publisher=[[Music Canada]] |accessdate=October 5, 2011}}</ref>

Germany / BVMI

• "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
• "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
• "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Changed again ~2010-10-27.
• "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Eminem; 'Encore')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Template 2010-07-29
  (Muhandes is a genius: use {{Cite certification|region=Germany|artist=Eminem|title=Encore}}).

NL / NVPI

• 1978–2006: Functioning DB <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.nl/nvpi/pagina.asp?pagkey=60461 |title=NVPI, de branchevereniging van de entertainmentindustrie – Goud/Platina |publisher=[[NVPI]] |accessdate=2011-12-31}}</ref>
• 1951–2011: Totally broken DB (contains 11 test entries).

NZ / RIANZ

Bulletin, 12.11.11: All bets are off; those dumbasses at RIANZ have changed their site, so the below URLs all redirect to http://nztop40.co.nz/ (showing only the current Top 40). Maybe someday the thing in the upper-right that resembles a drop-down list of charts will actually work. Bloody idiots.

News flash. 19.12.11: Thanks to Harout72, there may be salvation: http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/oldchart.asp gets us to the old charts, it appears. Will research...

• With song/album search charts to see when it was released/moving. That can help when stabbing at weekly links at RIANZ site.
• NZ direct links to any charts: Weekly and EOY Replace chart number (chartNum) or year (chartYear) as needed, and chartKind with S=singles, A=albums, D=DVDs, C=compilations, H=radio airplay (thanks to Adabow) Sample ref here.

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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp?chartNum=1784&chartKind=S |title=RIANZ: Chart #1784 - Monday 1 August 2011 / Top 40 Singles Chart (select from drop-down lists) |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand]] |accessdate=2011-10-21}}</ref>

Sweden / IFPI

• IFPI SWE: Platinum<ref name=IFPI-SEp8>[http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ar-20002.pdf "ÅR 2000 <nowiki>[Year 2000]</nowiki>"] (PDF) via [http://www.ifpi.se/?page_id=67 IFPI Guld & Platina page] (in Swedish). IFPI Svenska Gruppen. p. 8. Retrieved 2011-11-30.</ref>

UK / BPI

• Non-specific link to BPI DB: <ref name=BPI>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |title=BPI Certified Awards Search |publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |accessdate=December 4, 2011}}</ref>

US / RIAA

• OLD RIAA search tool. RIAA results URLs: long form & a short form (thanks to TheJazzDalek)
• Updated (2011) RIAA search tool. Go to this URL, replacing "rihanna" as appropriate (doesn't have to actually be the artist; site searches for whatever's in "artist" field [no other params known yet]):

http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=rihanna

• Copy-paste for ref, inserting correct URL:

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Without%20You%22 |title=RIAA – Searchable Database: Without You |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>