{"id":804523,"date":"2020-02-24T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/jimmy-eat-worlds-the-middle-has-been-certified-platinum"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:43:00","slug":"jimmy-eat-worlds-the-middle-has-been-certified-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jimmy-eat-worlds-the-middle-has-been-certified-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Eat World\u2019s \u2018The Middle\u2019 Has Been Certified Platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;Hey, don&#8217;t write yourself off yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/jimmyeatworld_themiddle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Eat World&#8217;s<\/strong> 2001 single &#8216;The Middle&#8217; has been certified Platinum in the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To put that into some sort of context, a platinum certification is the equivalent of&nbsp;600,000 sales, which is a pretty big deal really. Receiving such an accolade now only goes to demonstrate that the importance and relevance of the track hasn&#8217;t wained after all these years, and that is something to be celebrated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of actual chart positions in the UK, the song reached a high of number twenty three in the Top 40 and number two in the Rock and Metal chart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The track appears on the album &#8216;Bleed American&#8217;, which was certified Gold back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As good a time as any to revisit the iconic video as well then. Have a watch below:<\/strong><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKsxPW6i3pM\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/jimmy-eat-worlds-the-middle-has-been-certified-platinum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, don&#8217;t write yourself off yet.&#8221; Jimmy Eat World&#8217;s 2001 single &#8216;The Middle&#8217; has been certified Platinum in the UK.&nbsp; To put that into some sort of context, a platinum certification is the equivalent of&nbsp;600,000 sales, which is a pretty big deal really. Receiving such an accolade now only goes to demonstrate that the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 22:26:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}