Editing The Dark Side of the Moon (section)

=== Sales ===
''The Dark Side of the Moon'' became one of the [[best-selling albums]] of all time<ref name="billboardmilestone">{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |title=<!--"Floyd's 'Dark Side' Celebrates Chart Milestone" is the name of the online, May 5, 2006 article. The referenced URL's print-version title is: --> Floydian Theory |last=Werde |first=Bill |date=13 May 2006 |page=12 |volume=118 |issue=19 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=13 August 2020}}</ref> and is in the top&nbsp;25 of a list of [[List of best-selling albums in the United States|best-selling]] albums in the United States.<ref name="Poveyp345" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Top 100 Albums |url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=tblTop100 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701162536/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=tblTop100 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 July 2007 |website=[[RIAA]] |access-date=17 March 2009}}</ref> Although it held the number one spot in the US for only a week, it remained in the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] albums chart for 736&nbsp;nonconsecutive weeks (from 17 March 1973 to 16 July 1988).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pink Floyd Biography |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=p76669/biography|pure_url=yes}} |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/dark-side-of-the-moon-ends-chart-run/ |title=The Day 'The Dark Side of the Moon' Ended Its Record Chart Run |last=Gallucci |first=Michael |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=14 July 2013 |language=en |access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref> Of those first 736 charted weeks, the album had two notable consecutive runs in the ''Billboard'' 200 chart: 84 weeks (from 17 March 1973 to 19 October 1974) and 593 weeks (from 18 December 1976 to 23 April 1988).<ref>{{Cite web |title=50 Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side of the Moon' Facts You Need to Know |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-facts/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |last=Graff |first=Gary |date=1 March 2023 |access-date=26 May 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526075212/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-facts/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It made its final appearance in the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart during its initial run on the week ending 8 October 1988, in its 741st charted week.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1988 |title=Billboard Top Pop Albums |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1988/BB-1988-10-08.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1988/BB-1988-10-08.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |volume=100 |issue=41 |pages=81 |access-date=26 July 2021}}</ref> It re-appeared on the ''Billboard'' charts with the introduction of the [[Top Pop Catalog Albums]] chart in the issue dated 25 May 1991, and was still a perennial feature ten years later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Got Charts? Britney, Linkin Park Give Peers A Run For Their Sales Figures |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1450989/20011115/spears_britney.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011117192316/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1450989/20011115/spears_britney.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 November 2001 |website=[[MTV]] |last=Basham |first=David |date=15 November 2001 |access-date=30 March 2009}}</ref> It reached number one on the Pop Catalog chart when the 2003 hybrid CD/[[Super Audio CD|SACD]] edition was released and sold 800,000&nbsp;copies in the US.<ref name="Poveyp345" /> On the week of 5 May 2006 ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' achieved a combined total of 1,716&nbsp;weeks on the ''Billboard''&nbsp;200 and Pop Catalog charts.<ref name="BB-20060505">{{Cite magazine |title=Roger Waters Revisits The 'Dark Side' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58519/roger-waters-revisits-the-dark-side |last=Waddell |first=Ray |date=5 May 2006 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=2 August 2009 |archive-date=14 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614130915/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58519/roger-waters-revisits-the-dark-side |url-status=live }}</ref>

After a change in chart methodology in 2009 which allowed catalogue titles to be included in the ''Billboard'' 200,<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Seems Like Old Times: Catalog Returns To 200 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=5 December 2009}}</ref> ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' returned to the chart at number 189 on 12 December of that year for its 742nd charting week.<ref name="BillboardGoogle">{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUd1o0aCe10C&pg=PT32 |title=The Hot Box |author=<!-- Staff --> |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |page=33 |date=12 December 2009 |volume=121 |issue=49 |access-date=13 August 2020}}</ref> It has continued to sporadically appear on the ''Billboard 200'' since then, with the total at 990 weeks on the chart as of May 2024.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Pink Floyd Chart History (Billboard 200) |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pink-floyd/chart-history/tlp/ |access-date=30 April 2024 |archive-date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514170612/https://www.billboard.com/music/pink-floyd/chart-history/TLP |url-status=live }}</ref> "On a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000&nbsp;copies are sold.<ref name="billboardmilestone" /> As of April 2013, the album had sold 9,502,000 copies in the US since 1991 when [[Nielsen SoundScan]] began tracking sales for ''Billboard''.<ref name="SoundScan">{{Citation |title=Week Ending April 28, 2013. Albums: Snoop Lamb Is More Like It |url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-april-28-2013-albums-snoop-lamb-145455807.html |last=Grein |first=Paul |date=1 May 2013 |publisher=music.yahoo.com | access-date = 9 July 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131104215903/http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-april-28-2013-albums-snoop-lamb-145455807.html | archive-date = 4 November 2013}}</ref> One in every fourteen people in the US under the age of&nbsp;50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy.<ref name="Poveyp345" />

''The Dark Side of the Moon'' was released before the introduction of [[platinum certification]] in 1976 by [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA), and therefore held only a gold certification until 16 February 1990, when it was certified 11 times platinum. On 4 June 1998, the RIAA certified the album 15× platinum,<ref name="Poveyp345" /> denoting sales of fifteen million in the United States. This makes it Pink Floyd's biggest-selling work there; ''[[The Wall]]'' is 23 times platinum, but as a double album this signifies sales of 11.5&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ruhlmann|2004|p=175}}</ref> "Money" has sold well as a single, and as with "Time", remains a radio favourite; in the US, for the year ending 20 April 2005, "Time" was played on 13,723&nbsp;occasions, and "Money" on 13,731&nbsp;occasions.{{refn|According to [[Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems]]<ref name="billboardmilestone" />|group="nb"}} In 2017, ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' was the seventh-bestselling album of all time in the UK and the highest-selling album never to reach number one.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uks-60-official-biggest-selling-albums-of-all-time-revealed__15551/ |title=The UK's 60 official biggest selling albums of all time revealed |access-date=9 June 2017 |language=en |archive-date=9 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709012251/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uks-60-official-biggest-selling-albums-of-all-time-revealed__15551/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As one of the [[blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] LPs of the [[album era]] (1960s–2000s), ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' also led to an increase in record sales overall into the late 1970s.<ref name="Hogan">{{cite magazine |last=Hogan |first=Marc |author-link=Marc Hogan |date=20 March 2017 |title=Exit Music: How Radiohead's OK Computer Destroyed the Art-Pop Album in Order to Save It |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/ok-computer-at-20/10038-exit-music-how-radioheads-ok-computer-destroyed-the-art-pop-album-in-order-to-save-it/ |magazine=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=11 March 2010 |archive-date=23 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223111434/https://pitchfork.com/features/ok-computer-at-20/10038-exit-music-how-radioheads-ok-computer-destroyed-the-art-pop-album-in-order-to-save-it/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, industry sources suggested that worldwide sales of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' totalled about 45&nbsp;million.<ref name="BB-20130316" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Booth |first=Robert |title=Pink Floyd score victory for the concept album in court battle over ringtones |date=11 March 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/11/pink-floyd-court-victory-emi-downloads-ringtones |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=29 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121229005825/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/11/pink-floyd-court-victory-emi-downloads-ringtones |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Clear}}In 1993, Gilmour attributed the album's success to the combination of music, lyrics and cover art: "All the music before had not had any great lyrical point to it. And this one was clear and concise."<ref>{{cite news |last=Gwyther |first=Matthew |date=7 March 1993 |title=The dark side of success |page=37 |newspaper=[[The Observer|Observer magazine]]}}</ref> Mason said that, when they finished the album, Pink Floyd felt confident it was their best work to date, but were surprised by its commercial success. He said it was "not only about being a good album but also about being in the right place at the right time".<ref name="Poveyp160" />