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.
Dark Side Of The Moon is a timeless work which will continue on the charts for many years. Recent interest in Endless River and all the media attention it has brought to Pink Floyd only makes people more interested in other works of Pink Floyd.
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