Now here’s the answer to our trivia question. Which album hold’s the record for spending the most consecutive week’s on the Album Chart? Is it: A) Michael Jackson’s, “Thriller” B) Pink Floyd’s, “Dark Side of the Moon” C) The Beatles, “White Album” If your thinking “The White Album” you are wrong. Over the year’s there have been several successful albums. Some of the biggest albums in history include: Michael Jackson’s Thriller, The Beatles White Album and the soundtrack to the movie, Saturday Night Fever. All of those albums we’re very successful, they spent countless week’s on the Album Chart and numerous single’s from those album’s, hit the chart’s. However, when it comes to the album that hold’s the record for spending the most consecutive week’s on the Album Chart, there is one album that stand’s out way ahead of any other album in history, the album, “Dark Side of the Moon” by, Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd’s album has spent more time on the Album Chart, than any other album in history, 741 week’s. That’s amazing! Pink Floyd’s album first hit the Album Chart on March 17th 1973, where it entered the chart at #95, the top debut that week. And then a funny thing happened: It never left. It remained on the Album chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, nearly 15 long year’s. With an estimated 50 million copies sold. Its difficult to contextualize just how singularly dominant a chart and cultural force the album has been. The runner-up for time served on the Album Chart is Bob Marley and the Wailers Legend. However, that album is several years behind, and Floyds lead in total chart weeks is greater than Marleys 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 on classic rock stations monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. Pink Floyds Roger Waters told Billboard magazine: 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. 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. As previously reported, Waters plans to play the album in its entirety on his upcoming tour, an idea he says spawned from a request by Formula I. Roger Waters goes on to add: Somebody rather fancifully suggested Pink Floyd playing Dark Side of the Moon, and somebody else rather fancifully approached various people who said, Are you insane? Its not going to happen. So they asked me ... The more Ive worked on it, the more the idea has grown on me. Im going downtown as we speak to work on visuals for Dark Side of the Moon and the rest of the show. Ive got a great band together, and I have every hope that we will do the work justice. So there you have it, the classic album that has spent the most consecutive week’s on the Album Chart is Pink Floyd’s, “Dark Side of the Moon.” It spent a total of 741 week’s on the chart, which comes out to nearly 15 year’s. Now with an extra on AT20, here’s a #1 song from Pink Floyd’s album, The Wall. From 1980 here’s, “Another Brick in the Wall.” youtube/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:56:24 +0000
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