The BPI issue a list of new certifications every Friday which is posted at Brit Certified:
https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/
although sometimes they can be slow to update.
You can search the site to see all certifications for a particular artist since 1973 when they officially began.
Before then a record company could submit a letter requesting an award but there was nothing official.
The BPI currently has access to full data since 1994 so sales are only from this date.
If a record received a certification before 1994 date then it woudn't be certified now until it had reached the next level and unfortunately at this time the previous sales don't count towards the total although they are apparently working to try and rectify this.
The date of release which is showing for You Can't Hurry Love as 27.11.2004 is simply the date on which Downloads became eligible to be counted in the weekly chart - any before that date are ignored.
Any physical sales of YCHL between 1994 and 2004 would have been minimal.
Last year the OCC issued a list of the top 100 Selling UK Motown tracks of the Millennium [[up to 30 June 2019) to celebrate the label's 60th anniversary.
This showed to that date the record had sold 312k under their criteria.
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