{"id":12513,"date":"2026-01-10T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:50:43","slug":"dark-side-approaches-1000-weeks-on-billboard-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2026\/01\/dark-side-approaches-1000-weeks-on-billboard-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dark Side” approaches 1,000 weeks on Billboard chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Billboard<\/a>“The Dark Side of the Moon,” Pink Floyd<\/strong>‘s seminal album from 1973, is approaching 1,000 non-consequetive weeks on the Billboard<\/strong> 200 album chart. It sits at #167 on the most-recent chart, dated Jan. 10, marking its 996th week.<\/p>\n

Released in March 1973, “Dark Side” became the longest-charting LP in Billboard history in 1983. It’s held that title ever since.<\/p>\n

But for a quirk in Billboard rules that prohibited older “catalog” albums from re-entering the Billboard 200 between 1991 and 2009 \u2014 the magazine changed that rule in ’09 \u2014 “Dark Side” likely would have passed the 1,000-week milestone years ago.<\/p>\n

Its 996 weeks on the chart equal more than 229 months \u2014 more than 19 years \u2014 otherwise unheard of in Billboard history. The second-longest charting album is “Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers<\/strong>” at 920 weeks. “Journey<\/strong>\u2019s Greatest Hits” is third at 890 weeks.<\/p>\n

The Billboard 200 became a weekly part of the magazine in March 1956.<\/p>\n

Pictured: “The Dark Side of the Moon” debuting at #95 in Billboard on what was then called the “Top LP’s & Tape” chart on March 17, 1973.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Dark Side of the Moon,” Pink Floyd‘s seminal album from 1973, is approaching 1,000 non-consequetive weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart. It sits at #167 on the most-recent chart, dated Jan. 10, marking its 996th week. Released in March 1973, “Dark Side” became the longest-charting LP in Billboard history in 1983. It’s held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12516,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions\/12516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}