dark side of the moon number of weeks on the billboard chart from 1973 to 1988 upon initial release was 949.
dark side of the moon number of weeks on the billboard chart from 1973 to 1988 upon initial release was 949.
dark side of the moon number of weeks on the billboard chart from 1973 to 1988 upon initial release?
949
in 1973, menon played the central role in leading the promotion and marketing of pink floyd's album "the dark side of the moon". he literally put the power of capitol/emi behind the band with a tremendous marketing, pr and advertising effort. the album which has been called "the most technically advanced recording of its time" was hailed as a unique blend of studio wizardry and outstanding musical innovation. as such it might have achieved some success without menon's support, but pink floyd's sales in the us had been modest up to that point, and the promotion certainly encouraged success internationally. in the uk, pink floyd had blocked the release of singles. menon pushed for the songs, "us and them" and "time" to be edited and released as singles for american radio. to date, "the dark side of the moon" has spent 741 weeks on the usa-based "billboard" 200 album chart, the longest duration of any album in history. it is also the fourth highest selling album globally of all time, selling more than forty million units. menon was featured in the documentary , "the making of the dark side of the moon."
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in the us the lp was released before the introduction of platinum awards in 1976. it therefore held only a gold disc until 16 february 1990, when it was certified 11× platinum. on 4 june 1998 the recording industry association of america (riaa) certified the album 15× platinum, denoting sales of fifteen million in the united states – making it their biggest-selling work there ("the wall" is 23× platinum, but as a double album this signifies sales of 11.5 million). "money" has sold well as a single, and as with "time", remains a radio favourite; in the us, for the year ending 20 april 2005, "time" was played on 13,723 occasions, and "money" on 13,731 occasions. industry sources suggest that worldwide sales of the album total about 45 million. "on a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000 copies are sold, and a total of 400,000 were sold in 2002, making it the 200th-best-selling album of that year – nearly three decades after its initial release. the album has sold 9,502,000 copies in the us since 1991 when nielsen soundscan began tracking sales for billboard. to this day, it occupies a prominent spot on "billboard"s pop catalog chart. it reached number one when the 2003 hybrid cd/sacd edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the us. on the week of 5 may 2006 "the dark side of the moon" achieved a combined total of 1,716 weeks on the "billboard" 200 and pop catalog charts. one in every fourteen people in the us under the age of 50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy. upon a change in methodology in 2009 allowing catalogue titles to be included in the "billboard" 200, "the dark side of the moon" returned to the chart at number 189 on 12 december of that year for its 742nd charting week. it has continued to sporadically appear on the "billboard 200" since then, with the total at 943 weeks on the chart as of june 2019.
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