30 Seconds To Mars album certified platinum

The second album from 30 Seconds To Mars, A Beautiful Lie, has been certified platinum for sales of more than one million copies, according to a press release from the band's label, Virgin Records. The award is for copies shipped to stores, while actual sales of the album total 678,000 copies, according to SoundScan. Even though A Beautiful Lie was released in August of 2005, frontman Jared Leto told us he's not in any rush to record a follow-up: "It feels so new, it still feels so fresh and new, and that's an exciting thing and, you know, we certainly don't feel a need to stop to have to have new songs to play so quickly. But you never know, there may never be another record made again. This could be it."

A Beautiful Lie was re-released last month in a special two-disc deluxe edition.

The video for the album's latest single, "From Yesterday," was the first American music video shot in the People's Republic of China. Leto directed the clip under his pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins.

30 Seconds To Mars will co-headline this year's Taste Of Chaos tour with the Used, beginning on February 15th in Seattle.

Also receiving platinum certifications this month were Staind's Chapter V and the Killers' Sam's Town, while Breaking Benjamin's Phobia and Shinedown's Us And Them were certified gold for sales of more than 500,000 copies.
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