Golden

There are smiles in the Blue Rodeo camp now with the news that the veteran band's best-selling album, Five Days In July, has officially been certified Diamond for sales in Canada. This is a rare accomplishment as only a handful of other Canadian artists have achieved this status with an album recording. Release in 1993, Five Days In July contains such classics as "Hasn’t Hit Me Yet,” “5 Days in May” and “Bad Timing.”

The timing for this news is good, as it comes on the heels of the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations, which included a sold-out national tour, a Canadian postage stamp, a free Toronto hometown show, the award-winning documentary Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, the release of Greatest Hits Vol. 2 and a special Record Store Day collection, Songs Seldom Heard.