Dark side Of The Moon Stats:
1. One in every fourteen people in the US under the age of 50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy.
2. On the week of 5 May 2006
The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,500 weeks on the
Billboard 200 and Pop Catalog charts
3. To date, it is the most successful album in New Zealand, as a total, it had stayed in the charts for a total of 289 weeks, becoming RIANZ's best-selling album of all time.
4. Although it held the number one spot in the US for only a week, it remained in the
Billboard album chart for 741 weeks.
5. On a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000 copies are sold
6. A total of 400,000 copies of Dark Side were sold in 2002, making it the 200th-best-selling album of that year—nearly three decades after its initial release. According to a
Wall Street Journal article (2 August 2006), although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the US alone.
7. In the UK it is the sixth-best-selling album of all time.
8. In the US the LP was released before the introduction of platinum awards on 1 January 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 (since release) making it their biggest-selling work there.
9. 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.
10. Its just freaking cool to listen to.
I rest my case your honor and vote Pink Floyd
