Anytime an Australian artist achieves a milestone in their careers, we reckon that’s cause for celebration. We most recently decided this whole Vance Joy thing was just getting out of hand once he sold out every date on his Australian and North American tour.
Now, the boys in RÜFÜS (or RÜFÜS DU SOL as they’re known to our friends Stateside) have taken to their official Facebook page to reveal they’ve just received Gold and Platinum certifications from ARIA in just one day. Not too shabby, eh?
According to the band’s Facebook post, which shows the members of the band holding several very shiny-looking Gold and Platinum plaques, their massive single ‘You Were Right’ just went Platinum and the album it originally appeared on, Bloom, has gone Gold.
For those wondering what all these precious metals actually mean, albums are certified Gold in Australia once they manage to move 35,000 units and singles are given a Platinum accreditation once 70,000 units go out the door.
The band, who are currently in the midst of a national tour, spoke to Tone Deaf about the making of Bloom back in January, explaining how the Sydney trio stowed away in Berlin to make the album following the success of their debut, Atlas.
“We recorded the last album [2013’s Atlas] on my parents’ farm south of Sydney, so this time I think we really needed to isolate ourselve from the Australian scene and just really hole ourselves up,” keys and synth man Jon George told us.
“It was great, we could really just think about nothing else – we’d work till three or four o’clock in the morning, then head out and find a Berlin club where we’d hear something really new and exciting, then we could come back and just keep working.”
