κυριές και κύριοι η σκοτεινή πλευρά του φεγγαριού
έφτασε τις 1500 εβδομάδες στα charts
On March 17, 1973, a band in musical transition named
Pink Floyd hit the Top 200 chart with the release of its new album, "Dark Side of the Moon." It entered the chart at No. 95, the top debut that week. And then a funny thing happened: It never left. Or almost never, anyway.
More than 14 years later -- 736 weeks to be precise -- in July 1988, it finally fell off The
Billboard 200. Add in a later run on that chart and another 759 weeks on the Top
Pop Catalog Albums chart, and
Pink Floyd, with this issue, reaches the staggering plane of 1,500 weeks on the charts.
It's difficult to contextualize just how singularly dominant a chart -- and cultural -- force the album has been. The runner-up for time served on The
Billboard 200,
Bob Marley and the Wailers' "Legend," is several years behind, and Floyd's lead in total chart weeks is greater Marley's by an almost 2-1 margin.
Label sources say "Dark Side" has sold roughly 40 million copies worldwide and still routinely moves 8,000-9,000 copies on a slow week. In fact, the album still often outpaces the low end of The
Billboard 200, and every song on the more than 30-year-old record still gets radio play, with some among the most-played songs at
Classic Rock stations monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
"When the record was finished, I took a reel-to-reel copy home with me, and I remember playing it for my wife then, and her bursting into tears when it was finished,"
Pink Floyd principal Roger Waters tells
Billboard. "And I thought, 'This has obviously struck a chord.' I was kinda pleased by that. I thought to myself, 'Wow, this is a pretty complete piece of work,' and I had every confidence that people would respond to it."
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Billboard.com
