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Old 12-03-2001, 11:51 PM
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me for sure. I've heard so many different things I would like to know the truth. Also, I was wondering if anyone could tell me where Floyd ranks as The Greatest selling bands.



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Old 12-04-2001, 12:13 AM
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

I'm guessing ill get corrected in a heart beat but here it goes.....

DSotM: 28 million copies

The Wall: 23 million copies

And for the second question ill have to go with:

Beatles, Zepplin, Metallica, ?
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

well i heard that dark side of the moon is ranked 4th after saturday night fever, thriller and fleetwood mac:rumours, and number one in rereleased albums :smile:, but its probably changed so dont pay attention to me
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

In my heart :
DSOM = No 1
The Wall = No 3

And Floyd sure as hell beat the rest. A close runner up for me would be the irrepresibile Jim Morrison and The Doors and the German band The Scorpions
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

I heard that DSOTM was actually sold in 33 million copies!
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

That's weird I heard 40 million--so far.
I've have Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors", and have heard The Beatles and Michael Jackson's albums that rank above DSOTM, and none of them come close to Pink Floyd's brilliance. :grin:
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

I just know that Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the charts for some insanely long amount of time and fell off around the early eighties.

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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

Actually, it fell off in 1987 or '88, and stayed on the Billboard Top 200 for 14 years.
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Re: Where do The DSOTM and THE WALL rank as the Greatest Selling Albums?

DSOTM dropped off the Bilboard charts after 724 weeks in the top 200. It had been consecutively on the charts for 591 weeks (from 18 December 1976 to 23 April 1988). After this, Billboard changed the rules so that once an album dropped from the charts, it could not re-enter.
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If you wanna know the FACTS, then check this out...

http://hometown.aol.com/PaulHry/music/riaa.html
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