{"id":681,"date":"2009-12-17T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=681"},"modified":"2009-12-17T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:02:54","slug":"billboard-dark-side-3-catalog-album-of-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/12\/billboard-dark-side-3-catalog-album-of-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard: &#8220;Dark Side&#8221; #3 catalog album of decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s 1973 album &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; was the third best-selling &#8220;catalog&#8221; album of the decade, according to <strong>Billboard<\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The album followed &#8220;Legend&#8221; by Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers at #2, and &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; by <strong>Bob Segar &amp; the Silver Bullet Band<\/strong>, which was the best-selling catalog album of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard defines catalog albums as those that are at least 18 months old, and have fallen below #100 on the Billboard 200 chart, or are reissues of older titles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dark Side&#8221; recently rejoined the Billboard 200 after a 20-year absence. The album is Billboard&#8217;s longest-charting album ever.<\/p>\n<p>Read our previous posts about the chart history of &#8220;Dark Side&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/12\/dark-side-returns-to-billboard-200\/\">&#8220;Dark Side&#8221; returns to Billboard 200<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/11\/dark-side-poised-for-return-to-charts\/\">&#8220;Dark Side&#8221; poised for return to charts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd&#8216;s 1973 album &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; was the third best-selling &#8220;catalog&#8221; album of the decade, according to Billboard magazine. The album followed &#8220;Legend&#8221; by Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers at #2, and &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; by Bob Segar &amp; the Silver Bullet Band, which was the best-selling catalog album of the decade. [&hellip;]<\/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-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}