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Creed won Artist of the Year, Alternative/Active Rock Radio and Song of the Year, Alternative/Active Rock Radio for With Arms Wide Open at the Radio Music Awards on November 4, 2000.

Human Clay has been certified 7x Platinum (over 7,000,000 albums sold) by the RIAA.

Creed's the first band to ever have 3 songs in the Top 20 of Billboard's Rock Charts. My Own Prison, Torn, and What's This Life For were the singles.

Creed's "Higher" was runner up on VH1's "Survivor: The Videos." Santana won.

With Arms Wide Open was #1 on the Active Rock charts for 5 weeks in a row!

According to Soundscan, Creed is among the Top 100 Artists of all time for record sales.

With their 7th consecutive #1 single With Arms Wide Open, Creed has managed to break their own record of having the most consecutive #1 singles ever.

They first broke the record in March of 99' when their 4th single "One" went #1 taking the honor away from "Days of the New" and "Metallica" who were tied with 3 consecutive No. 1 hit singles each.

Creed's video for "Higher" was #1 on VH1's "Top 10" for 5 weeks in a row!

In the May issue of Guitar One, Mark Tremonti, is featured as one of the All Stars of 2000. He was voted by the magazine as Best Riff Architect, voted over the likes of James Hetfield, Adam Jones, Ed Roland, Jimmy Page, Angus Young, and Eddie Van Halen.
Thanks to BlindedRat@aol.com for that info!

Mark Tremonti was named Best Rock Guitarist in Guitar World magazine's annual Reader's Poll. In addition to this accolade, Tremonti was honored by Paul Reed Smith guitars with his own signature model. Tremonti is only the second guitarist to receive such an honor. The first? None other than Carlos Santana.

Human Clay was voted #5 for "Best Rock Album"of 1999 in Guitar World Magazine.

Creed's "Higher" set a new record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 for both Active and Mainstream radio at 18 weeks, according to Billboard Monitor. The record was previously held by Days of the New's "Touch, Peel, and Stand."

Creed's video for "Higher" landed at #95 on MTV's "Top 99 of 99' Countdown."

Creed won "Rock Artist of the Year" and "Single of the Year" for "One" at the 1999 Billboard Music Awards.

Human Clay was certified Douple Platinum 5 weeks after it's release. Creed's second album, Human Clay, was in the #1 spot on Billboard for 2 weeks in a row.

Creed beat out the competition with "Higher" on NBC's Friday Night in a battle of the bands call-in segment that aired Sept. 24.

Human Clay sold 315,670 copies in its first week of release and sold approx. 150,000 copies the second week according to SoundScan.

Human Clay has been #1 on the Modern Rock, Active Rock, Mainstream Rock and Heritage Rock charts.

The Liquid Audio download of Higher, available to fans a month before its release, initiated more than 250,000 downloads during the month that "Higher" was available on-line, setting a new record and nearly doubling the previous record for a Liquid Audio digital download, coincidentally set by the title-track from Creed's first album "My Own Prison."

Fans were able to listen to entire Human Clay Album before release. "Higher" set records for Highest Active Rock Radio Debut At No.3 and entered the Modern Rock chart at #14.

Creed's "One" was nominated for Alternative / Active Rock Song of the Year for the first-ever WB Radio Music Awards, that was held Oct. 28 1998 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Creed was named Rock Artist of the Year 1998 at the Billboard Music awards.

"My Own Prison", Creed's debut album is certified QUADRUPLE Platinum. Over 4,000,000 albums sold.

"My Own Prison" was the #1 selling Hard Music album for 1998 according to Soundscan.

Creed is the first artist to ever have 4 #1 Rock radio singles from a debut album.


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