Pink vs Pink Floyd

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NinjaguyDan said:

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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.

 

Let's see the "pop tarts" beat that!

One hundred years from now people will still be listening to Pink Floyd (and The Beatles) while ALL of the "pop tarts" will be swallowed by silence and shit out into oblivion.

no. they wont be silent... it'll be more like "so I was looking through old albums that were big hits 10 years ago... i got a song I'm gonna play... remember when we actually thought this was good and it was tearing up the charts?" cut to taylor swift song... "yeah what were we thinking... now back to real music" cut to the beatles.