{"id":588,"date":"2009-12-03T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T22:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T01:38:53","slug":"dark-side-returns-to-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/12\/dark-side-returns-to-billboard-200\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dark Side” returns to Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we predicted a few weeks ago, Pink Floyd’s venerable “Dark Side of the Moon” album returned to the Billboard 200 chart this week, after a change in the magazine’s methodology forced it off the list in 1988.<\/p>\n

“Dark Side” returned for its 742nd week on the chart, appearing at #189. Its last week on the chart was Oct. 8, 1988.<\/p>\n

Billboard recently began basing its chart on Nielsen SoundScan sales data, an all-inclusive list that disregards release date. This change was responsible for the album’s return. (Read more about the change in our previous post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The album, which debuted on the chart March 17, 1973, is the longest charting album in Billboard history \u2014 by far:<\/p>\n

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  1. “Dark Side of the Moon,” Pink Floyd (1973), 742 weeks<\/li>\n
  2. “Johnny’s Greatest Hits,” Johnny Mathis (1958), 490 weeks<\/li>\n
  3. “My Fair Lady,” Original Cast (1956), 480 weeks<\/li>\n
  4. “Highlights From the Phantom of the Opera,” Original Cast (1990), 331 weeks<\/li>\n
  5. “Tapestry,” Carole King (1971), 302 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As we predicted a few weeks ago, Pink Floyd’s venerable “Dark Side of the Moon” album returned to the Billboard 200 chart this week, after a change in the magazine’s methodology forced it off the list in 1988. “Dark Side” returned for its 742nd week on the chart, appearing at #189. Its last week on […]<\/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-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}