Pink Floyd - DSOTM sets new Chart record
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Topic: Pink Floyd - DSOTM sets new Chart record
Posted By: maani
Subject: Pink Floyd - DSOTM sets new Chart record
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 17:30
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From The New York Times, Monday, May 8th:
Bright Side of 'Dark Side'
The Pink Floyd album "Dark Side of the Moon" has chalked up 1,500 weeks on the Billboard charts since it made its debut at the No. 95 position on the Top 200 chart on March 17, 1973. According to Billboard, more than 14 years — 736 weeks, to be exact — passed before it dropped off in July 1988, but it came back again and then ran for 759 weeks on the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart. The company reported that about 40 million copies of "Dark Side of the Moon" (Capitol/EMI) have been sold, and it still sells 8,000 to 9,000 copies a week. Billboard reported that the runner up to "Dark Side" on the Top 200 chart is "Legend" by Bob Marley and the Wailers, which is several years behind: Pink Floyd leads Marley in total chart weeks by almost 2 to 1. |
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Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 18:27
It's not such a news but it's very nice  ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 18:58
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No surprise with Floyd, but I didn't expect Bob Marley is so popular. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 19:03
Cool news, maani. No surprise though, considering that PF is so well-known around the world ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 22:38
| Nice to have a permanent income from one release... Sales still fall short of the popular megasellers. I think the eagles have the top at 68mill plus. Explains how they could afford the over the top extravagence of the pulse light show. |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 00:04
I wonder then, has DSOTM overtaken, in terms of sales, Fleetwood Macs 'Tumors' (I mean Rumours), and Michael Jackson's  Thriller? ------------- |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 01:27
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^No, not the last time I looked. I think it goes Eagles greatest hits, then Thriller, and a whole heap more before you get to the 40 million bracket |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 02:39
Has it outsold all other prog albums combined? ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 21:46
Do'h!  ------------- |
cobb wrote:Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: May 10 2006 at 11:51
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That's quite some record - in more than one sense.
Helps keep Nick Mason in Ferraris!
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: May 10 2006 at 11:57
| It's overrated. But being overrated is underrated |
Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 00:25
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I'd like to see Dark Side of the Moon pass Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Just so I can laugh really..
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Posted By: MikeSweedish
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 18:39
| So it is true that DSOTM is second best selling album next to Thriller? |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 22:06
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^No... here's a link to the RIAA version of the all time best sellers
http://www.neosoul.com/riaa/%20 - http://www.neosoul.com/riaa/ - http://www.neosoul.com/riaa/ </a> You can still celebrate- the Wall is 3rd after Thriller. Dark Sides fame is for remaining in the charts for so long (that's the standard weekly charts, not the all time charts). |