IFPI Sweden

The IFPI Sweden is an offshoot of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in Sweden and represents the music industry in the country. The organization has given gold and platinum music awards since 1987 and creates the Grammotex online catalog, which contains over 100,000 songs.

Limits to the award of phonograms

Albums

Popular music

Award	until September 30, 1996	until December 31, 2001	until October 31, 2006	since November 1, 2006
gold	50,000	40,000	30,000	20,000
platinum	100,000	80,000	60,000	40,000
2 × platinum	200,000	160,000	120,000	80,000
...

Folk / jazz / children's ¹ / classical albums

Award	Sales units
gold	10,000
platinum	20,000
2 × platinum	40,000
...

¹ Until July 31, 2008, children's albums from the award limit of 20,000 units were awarded gold.

Singles

IFPI Sweden has been awarding singles awards since 1987. Since 1996, due to fluctuating sales figures, the award limits have been adjusted at irregular intervals. Between 2006 and 2011, sales from "Realtones" (ring tones) were also added to the single sales.

Award	until May 31, 1996	until June 30, 2003	until December 31, 2009	since January 1, 2010
gold	25,000	15,000	10,000	20,000
platinum	50,000	30,000	20,000	40,000
2 × platinum	100,000	60,000	40,000	80,000
...

Video albums

Award	until December 31, 2011	since January 1, 2012
gold	10,000	5,000
platinum	20,000	10,000
2 × platinum	40,000	20,000
...

Web links

• Official website
• Grammotex , online catalog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Beräkning IFPI certificate (Swedish)