I'm typically the only one(that I know of)who talks about gold and platinum albums(and sales in general)on here but this time it wasn't me. Anyway, "court" was released in 69 but didn't go gold until 77 so yeah 8 years. So far it's the only album of theirs to be certified gold. No other albums of theirs have. However, I'd be willing to bet the "court" has gone platinum by now(over 40 years after it has been certified gold)or at the very least is very close to it(maybe 900,000 albums sold) especially with all the attention it has received in prog circles and even beyond in the past ten years or so. The RIAA, however, doesn't always keep close tabs on album sales and from what I understand they usually won't check an albums sales figures unless the label requests it.

Wow, I guess I did not know it took 8yrs to go Gold, I would have guessed by '73.

Also somebody had mentioned that all of KC albums went gold...not in the US.  Only in the Court did.  I remember when it happened too.  1977, I heard it on the radio.  The announcers noted that it took 8 years to go gold, which is longer than most albums stayed in print even back then!  Apparently it eventually went platinum

https://www.riaa.com/?s=king+crimson

1 Pink Floyd

2 Brian Eno

3 Can

4 Radiohead

5 The Mothers of Invention

6 Faust

true...

The Dark Elf wrote: I offered an actual, contemporary review of the album from THE major rock magazine in 1973 (and Rolling Stone was, at the time),

You do realize that Alex Young, who founded Consequence of Sound in 2007, was not even born when Dark Side of the Moon was released. 

Svetonio, this is what happens you bring Ramen noodles to an intellectual gunfight. I offered an actual, contemporary review of the album from THE major rock magazine in 1973 (and Rolling Stone was, at the time), you offered a title of an article written by a guy who wasn't even born yet.