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Say what you will about DSOTM the masses have spoken

This is taken from KGON 92.3 FM Clasic Rock in Portland Oregons web site.

"Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon spent 736 straight weeks, from March1973 to July 1988, on Billboard's Top 200 album chart. It then spent another nine weeks on the chart, plus 759 weeks on the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart -- which means, with the current issue of Billboard, it will have spent 15-hundred weeks on the charts. That figure tops the second longest-charting album, Bob Marley's Legends, by a two-to-one margin. Dark Side has sold upwards of 40-million copies worldwide and continues to sell between eight- and nine-thousand copies a week.

A few years back Roger Waters said, "It's not allowed to be on the charts. Billboard introduced a rule which said no album that's been out for more than 10 years is allowed to appear in the 200 because the business decided that the chart is a selling tool and they don't need that tool to sell Dark Side of the Moon or [the Eagles'] Hotel California or the other classic albums."

Now you may not think it's the best album of all time You might not even like it. Heck you might hate, Or you might be the one guy who has never even heard it.

BUT 40 million copies sold and twice as many copies as it's c;osest competion is one hell of a statement about what the people who listen to rock and roll think of it.

Think of it this way DSOTM just finished the INDY 500 while the car in number two just cross the 250 mile mark! Meaning DSOTM moon lapped the field 250 times.



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Topic - Say what you will about DSOTM the masses have spoken - Mark W. 17:47:52 05/09/06 (91)
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