IRON MAIDEN: New Album Almost Gold In Finland On First Day Of Release

26 August 2006
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According to a posting on the IRON MAIDEN fan site MaidenFans.com, EMI Finland has announced that the new IRON MAIDEN album, "A Matter of Life and Death", has sold more than 13,000 copies within just a few hours of its release on Friday (August 25) — just shy of that country's official gold certification sales plateau (15,000).
Source: blabbermouth.net