As Adele Hits Thirteen Times Platinum Across Europe, Over 60 Artists Pick Up Impala Sales Awards, Including Manel, Bon Iver, Miossec, Deus, Agnes Obel And The Horrors

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) As Adele Hits Thirteen Times Platinum Across Europe, Over 60 Artists Pick Up IMPALA Sales Awards, Including Manel, Bon Iver, Miossec, DEUS, Agnes Obel And The HorrorsThe new Pan-European Independent Sales Awards from IMPALA demonstrate once again the strength and diversity of independent music across Europe in a wide variety of genres.

Adele's sophomore album "21", which received a Six-Times Platinum IMPALA Sales Award in March, has continued its astonishing success to reach Thirteen-Times Platinum. Danish singer/songwriter Agnes Obel's debut album "Philharmonics" has been upgraded to Diamond, along with "The Very Best of Frank Zappa", while single "Welcome to St. Tropez" by DJ Antoine vs Timati feat. Kalenna is a new Diamond entry. Bon Iver's self-titled album and "Spark Of Insanity" by Jeff Dunham both receive Double Gold awards; winners of Gold awards include Opeth, The Prodigy and Bring Me The Horizon.

As always, the awards demonstrate the diversity of successful independent musicians across Europe, with other winners including The Knife (Sweden), Miossec (France), Darkthrone (Norway), Els Amics de les Arts (Spain), dEUS (Belgium) and Mogwai (UK).

The new winners represent over 137 million euros in sales, with 16 Platinum (400k), 3 Diamond (200k), 2 Double Gold (150k), 13 Gold (75k), 22 Double Silver (40k) and 21 Silver (20k) from all across Europe.

In total over 830 awards have been registered so far, representing more than 82 million CDs sold and €1.23 billion in revenue.

You can listen to many of the winning titles on our Spotify playlists (Silver Awards, Double Silver Awards, Gold Awards, Double Gold Awards, Diamond Awards and Multi-Platinum Awards), or to find out more visit the IMPALA website or our social media sites:

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