Template:Certification Table Entry

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This set of templates is used for creating certification tables for albums, singles, etc.

Note that WP:ALBUM/CERT recommends the creation of a table only when an album has achieved multiple certifications.

• Certification Table Top – for the top of the table
• Certification Table Entry – for table entries
• Certification Table Summary – for starting the summary section
• Certification Table Bottom – for the bottom of the table

Fields

Mandatory

• artist – performing artist or group
• title – title of work
• award – Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond
• type – album/single/video

Non mandatory

• accessdate – The date in which the source verifying the certification was retrieved, for web sources
• date – The date of certification
• format – Accepts 3col for the default 3 column format, 2col for a format omitting the sales column or 2colthin for a format omitting the sales column and using a thinner form, linking to the certifying authority without naming it
• nosales – set to any value if no sales figure is to be displayed
• nocert – set to any value if no certification is to be displayed. This can be used to specify sales figured from other sources
• certref – for specifying a different source for the certification. Enclose with <ref></ref>.
• number – number of awards given. For example, for Double Platinum enter 2.
• relyear – release year, used to calculate sales
• relmonth – release month (number), used to calculate sales in some cases
• relday – release day (number), used to calculate sales in some rare cases
• certyear – year in which certification was awarded, used for linking and to calculate sales in some cases
• certmonth – month (number) in which certification was awarded, used to calculate sales in some rare cases
• certday – month (number) in which certification was awarded, used to calculate sales in some even rarer cases
• salesamount – override sales amount with a sales figure from a reliable source. It can also be used to override the sales amount if you believe the template is not calculating it correctly. Please let us know!
• salesref – source for overridden sales amount if it is not the certification itself
• id – external ID required for citation. Explained where relevant.
• discount – true for discount albums, influences certification levels in some regions
• domestic – true for domestic titles, influences certification levels and citation in some regions
• multidisc – the number of discs in a multi-disc package
• recent – true for recent certification, see below
• Spanish – true for Spanish-speaking albums, see United States below
• digital – true for digital downloads, check for support below
• streaming – true for streaming, check for support below
• note – Additional notes, e.g. specific edition certified
• best – see Germany below
• refname – enables you to specify a name for the reference generated by the template

Supported regions

Region	Notes	Source for thresholds	Sales/Shipments
Argentina	type can only be album/video Sales require relyear Certifications currently unavailable		Sales
Australia	requires certyear Specifying recent=book uses Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia’s Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. and id is the page number.		Shipments
Austria	Manual search required Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth.		Sales
Belgium	requires certyear supports domestic=true Sales require certyear and relyear and sometimes relmonth and certmonth. Unknown thresholds for albums between 2006 and March 2007.		Sales
Brazil	Sales require relyear Supports domestic=true. Supports digital=true for albums.	Pro-Música Brasil#Sales certification	Sales
Canada	Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth For correct sales for digital singles, set digital=true		Shipments
Denmark	Specifying recent=false uses charts, certyear is the chart year and id is the chart week. Otherwise will use the certification database. Specifying id will direct to the "node" (available from the URL after search). Otherwise will direct to the general database, and certyear can be specified for better directions. Sales require certyear and may require certmonth, certday, relyear, relmonth and relday. Supports streaming=true for streaming certifications between January 7, 2011 and November 17, 2014		Shipments
Europe	requires certyear Albums only Use only in the summary section		Sales
Finland	requires salesamount data from reported source
France	requires certyear type can be also be compilation Sales require certyear and may require certmonth and certday for some release dates set recent=false for certification dates before 1994		Sales
GCC	requires certyear. Supports domestic=true, but without automatic citation.		Sales
Germany	type can be also be jazz Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth and relday In cases where the best certification does not show up (known bug), set best=no to show the entire certification history		Shipments
Greece	Referenced from wayback machine archive here require id, the full 14 digit timestamp, e.g. 20070114174502 Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth. Supports domestic certifications.
Hong Kong			Sales
Hungary	requires certyear Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth and relday with unknown thresholds on some date ranges for albums		Unsure
Ireland	requires certyear Certifications currently unavailable Certifications from 2005 to 2013 available on irishcharts.ie	?	Unsure
Italy	requires relyear for sales		Shipments
Japan	requires certyear and certmonth Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth Automatic citation for albums only		Shipments
Mexico	Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth Supports award=Platinum+Gold,award=Diamond+Gold,award=Platinum+Diamond and even award=Platinum+Diamond+Gold		Shipments
Netherlands	Manual search required Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth		Sales
New Zealand	type can be also be compilation Specifying recent=false uses Radioscope certifications which go April 2007 to July 2011. Specifying recent=book uses Scapolo, Dean (2007). The Complete New Zealand Music Charts: 1966 – 2006. Wellington: Maurienne House. ISBN 978-1877443-00-8. and id is the page number. Otherwise, uses nztop40.co.nz which has charts from 1975. id required, the chart number and domestic=true is supported. Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth.		Depends
Norway	Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth		Sales
Philippines	Sales require certyear and sometimes certmonth Supports domestic=true	Philippine Association of the Record Industry#Certification levels	Sales
Poland	type can only be album/video Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth requires certyear supports domestic=true		Sales
Portugal	if recent=true (from 2007) specify certyear. Otherwise requires id in the format XXXXYY where XXXX is the year and YY is the week in which the title charted		Unsure
Russia	requires certyear Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth supports domestic=true Automatic citation for albums only		Sales
South Korea			Sales
Spain	Requires certyear, the year in which the certification was made, and certmonth, the week in which the title charted. Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth and relday For Original Tones and Digital Downloads, set digital=true	Productores de Música de España#Certifications	Shipments
Sweden	requires certyear Sales require relyear and sometimes relmonth		Depends
Switzerland	Sales require relyear Set domestic=true for repertoire in French and Italian		Unclear
United Kingdom	Manual search required if id not specified Sales for singles require relyear Set discount=true for correct discount album sales figure. For albums, sales correct only from 1979		Shipments
United States	Supports multidisc for multi-disc packages set Spanish for Spanish speaking Sales for singles require certyear To show correct sales/shipments footnote for digital singles, set digital=true For correct Spanish album sales figures, use certyear and sometimes certmonth and even certday		Shipments
Uruguay	requires certyear		Unclear

IFPI summary tables: September 2010, January 2009, October 2007, 2005/2006

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using certification Table Entry with unknown parameters (41)
• Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry-Sales with missing information (6)
• Category:Certification Table Entry usages for unsupported region without source (1)
• Category:Pages using certification Table Entry without certification (33)
• Category:Certification Table Entry usages for unsupported region (24)
• Category:Cite certification used with missing parameters (77) (indirectly, through calling {{cite certification}})

Unless nocat is set, the template categorizes the page in which it was used in a category "Certification Table Entry usages for X", where X is the region. This is used to keep track of template usage and to ease maintenance in case all certifications for a region must be corrected. See Category:Certification Table Entry usages (40).

See also

• {{Certification}}
• {{Cite certification}}

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