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Last week, Pink Floyd’s most successful album returned to prominence thanks to a once-in-a-generation occurrence. This frame, the band is back on a handful of Billboard charts with the title, and they are inching closer and closer to making history in a very special way.
Dark Side of the Moon returns to the Billboard 200 this week. The album finds its way back to the ranking of the most-consumed albums in the U.S. as it reappears at No. 154.
As of this frame, Dark Side of the Moon has now lived on the Billboard 200 for 989 weeks. The title is only 11 frames away from becoming the first album to hit 1,000 stays on the competitive tally.
Dark Side of the Moon has held the honor of being the longest-charting album of all time on the Billboard 200 for many years now. Pink Floyd’s blockbuster doesn’t face any real competition for this title, and they won’t for years.
Currently, the second-longest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200 is Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers. That compilation has now racked up 830 stays on the chart, including this latest frame. It would need more than three years to catch up to Dark Side of the Moon, and only if Pink Floyd’s project never appears on the list again.
Dark Side of the Moon returns to the Billboard 200 thanks to renewed interest in not only this set, but all things connected to the moon and the sun. Last week, all albums and songs that had some of those words, among others, in their titles benefited from the solar eclipse. Other titles that related to the event, such as Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” also find their way back to certain tallies–and even reach new heights on many of them.
