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The cottage seen on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “A Collection of Great Dance Songs” is up for sale.

Garden Cottage, in Dungeness, Romney Marsh, is going on the auction block March 23. It was built in the mid-19th century, is part of the private Dungeness Estate, and has an estimated value of £165-170,000.

In addition to gracing the cover of Floyd’s 1981 compilation album, it’s believed to been seen in TV shows such as “Jayne Eyre” and the Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

Clive Emson Land and Property Auctioneers are handling the auction.

Addendum: The property has sold, but is now believed to not be the structure that appeared on the album cover (“Alleged ‘Great Dance Songs’ house sold, but misidentified”).

Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) climbed to the #13 position on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The album sold just more than 38,000 “album equivalent units” last week, resulting in its best chart showing since Oct. 15, 2011, when it re-entered the Top 20 at #12 thanks to a new re-issue.

“Dark Side” has spent 889 weeks on the chart, the most-charted weeks for any album in the history of the Billboard 200.

Billboard speculates the album’s jump this week was due to a price discount on “Dark Side” offered by the Google Play store the week ending Dec. 7.

The calculations that determine the Billboard 200 have become more complex recently. The chart now measures “multi-metric album consumption,” which includes “pure album sales.” The ranking combines on-demand streaming and digital sales in addition to traditional album sales, all measured by Nielsen Music.

Pink Floyd‘s new album “The Endless River,” released Nov. 10, has debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at #3.

The album was bested only by Foo Fighters‘ debut of “Sonic Highway” at #2, and Taylor Swift‘s third week at #1 for her album “1989.”

If “The Endless River” climbs to #1, it’ll be Floyd’s fifth #1 album, following “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973), “Wish You Were Here” (1975), “The Wall” (1979) and “The Division Bell” (1994).

“The Endless River” debuted on the U.K. charts at the #1 position last week.

Billboard has created an infographic showing Floyd’s chart activity over the years. The band’s only studio album that failed to chart on Billboard was “A Saucerful of Secrets” (1968).

View the infographic.

Pink Floyd has released a second short video to promote its upcoming album “The Endless River,” due out Nov. 10.

Vermont’s Rutland Herald/ Times-Argus published a story today about “Floydian Slip.”

You can read the article online for a limited time, before it moves behind a paywall.

We reported a couple of months ago that the Casa Madrona hotel in Sausalito, Calif., has opened to the public the suite where a young Pink Floyd stayed during its first tour of the United States.

We recently received this photo of the suite, which starts at $509 a night.

The Casa Madrona hotel in Sausalito, Calif., has opened to the public the suite where a young Pink Floyd stayed during its first tour of the United States.

Dubbing the second floor suite the Piper Room, the 64-room San Francisco-area hotel is catering to Floyd fans by adorning the suite with photos of the group and a copy of Nick Mason’s coffee table book “Inside Out,” and by playing a Floyd songlist when guests enter the suite.

The band was photographed during its 1967 stay by William Baron on the hotel’s fire escape.

No word on how much the Piper Room costs, but deluxe rooms in the hotel start at $509 a night, with at least one suite going for $10,000 a night.

Small world, apparently. Leif Clark dropped us a note to tell us he spotted a “Floydian Slip” sticker affixed to an old T72 tank left behind in Kuwait by Iraqi forces during the first Gulf War.

The sticker’s displayed on the back of the tank’s searchlight.

See our sticker someplace unusual? Snap a picture, email it to us and we’ll share it with the rest of you crazy diamonds on our blog, Facebook and Twitter.

Want your own stash of “Floydian Slip” stickers? They’re free! Get your stickers here.

“Floydian Slip” has partnered with Envision Networks® of Cleveland, Ohio, to handle network ad sales for our weekly radio show.

Envision will handle network ad sales for our growing network of terrestrial affiliate stations in the United States and Canada.

We’re retaining all other duties, including production, distribution, marketing and affiliate relations, as well as ad sales for non-terrestrial and foreign affiliates.

“Floydian Slip” is heard on more than 50 stations in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, England, Malta and New Zealand.

In December the show entered the nation’s third largest market, Chicago, when WFXF 103.9 FM in Crystal Lake, IL signed on. The Baltimore market came on-board shortly after, with WRNR 103.1 FM, Annapolis, MD.

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