Editing Alabama (band) (section)

==Chart records, sales, and awards==

===Multiplatinum certifications===
Alabama is among the [[List of best-selling music artists|world's best-selling bands of all time]], having sold a combined 75&nbsp;million records worldwide.<ref name="Kazek">{{cite news|url=http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/01/10_weird_and_wonderful_roadsid.html|title=10 weird and wonderful roadside memorials to musicians in Alabama (Odd Travels with photos)|newspaper=[[The Birmingham News]]|date=2014-01-22|first=Kelly|last=Kazek|access-date=2014-05-10|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513003042/http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/01/10_weird_and_wonderful_roadsid.html|archive-date=2014-05-13}}</ref> Alabama's best-selling [[studio album]] is ''[[Mountain Music (Alabama album)|Mountain Music]]'' (1982), while two greatest hits albums — ''[[Greatest Hits (Alabama album)|Greatest Hits]]'' (1986) and ''[[For the Record (Alabama album)|For the Record]]'' (1998) — are among their highest in individual sales, with all three totaling five million in sales.<ref name="alabamaRIAA"/> Alabama received multiplatinum success for several albums; albums currently certified quadruple platinum include ''[[Feels So Right]]'', ''[[The Closer You Get...]]'', and ''[[Roll On (Alabama album)|Roll On]]'', while Alabama's double platinum albums include ''[[My Home's in Alabama]]'', ''[[40-Hour Week]]'', ''[[Alabama Christmas]]'' and ''[[Greatest Hits Vol. III (Alabama album)|Greatest Hits Volume III]]''.<ref name="alabamaRIAA"/>

===Awards===
{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Alabama}}
Alabama is the most awarded band in the history of country music, with over 200 awards from a variety of organizations.<ref name="billboard1"/> In 1981, Alabama won both the Vocal Group of the Year and Instrumental Group of the Year honors from the CMAs. It also won the ACM's Vocal Group of the Year award, and ''Billboard''{{'s}} New Group of the Year honors. The group won the CMA's prestigious Entertainer of the Year award for three consecutive years (1982–84), and the ACM's Entertainer of the Year award five times (1982–86).<ref name="billboard1"/> In 1989, Alabama was named Artist of the Decade by the ACM. In addition, Alabama has also received the [[Music Business Association|NARM Gift of Music]] award, the [[Alabama Hall of Fame]] Distinguished Service award, the Country Radio Broadcasters Humanitarian Award, the [[Prince Matchabelli]] National Hero Award, the [[Bob Hope Humanitarian Award]], and a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref name="billboard1"/>