Billy Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire" RIAA Gold Single Award Lene Lovich Hard to find Dire Straits

Hard to find Dire Straits award

with the advent of MTV

both of which also garnered airplay

000" engraved in the dead wax area of this record

it was certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA on Dec

Billy Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire" RIAA Gold Single Award Lene Lovich Hard to find Dire StraitsRIAA Gold Single Award for Billy Joel single "We Didn't Start The Fire". Released on Sept. 18, 1989, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for 500,000 copies sold later that year on Nov. 28. Released off Joel's Storm Front album, "We Didn't Start The Fire" became Joel's third #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also nominated for the Grammy award for Record of the Year in 1990. By 2021 it was certified 3x Multi Platinum by the RIAA for three