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==Release== The album's release followed [[Capital Radio]]'s broadcast two days earlier of ''The Pink Floyd Story'', and an evening press conference held at the power station two days before that.<ref name="Poveyp208"/> The broadcast was originally to have been an exclusive for the DJ [[Nicky Horne]], who since mid-December had been broadcasting ''The Pink Floyd Story'', but a copy was given to [[John Peel]], who played side one of the album in its entirety a day earlier.<ref name="Poveyp208"/><ref name="Blakep246"/> ''Animals'' was released in the UK on 21 January 1977 on [[Harvest Records]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pink Floyd {{!}} The Official Site|url=https://www.pinkfloyd.com/history/timeline_1977.php|access-date=26 October 2020|website=www.pinkfloyd.com|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809204242/http://www.pinkfloyd.com/history/timeline_1977.php|url-status=live}}</ref> and in the US on 12 February on [[Columbia Records]]. It reached number two in the UK and number three in the US.<ref name="Poveyp347">{{Harvnb|Povey|2007|p=347}}</ref> According to ''[[British Hit Singles & Albums|The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums]]'', Pink Floyd overtook [[ABBA]] for the most weeks on the [[UK Albums Chart]] in 1977, at 108 weeks.<ref>*Roberts, David (editor). ''[[British Hit Singles & Albums|The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums]]'', p18. Guinness Publishing Ltd. 7th edition (1996). {{ISBN|0-85112-619-7}}</ref> ''Animals'' was certified [[Music recording certification|quadruple platinum]] in the US on 31 January 1995.<ref>{{Citation |title=Searchable database |url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626050454/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH |publisher=riaa.com |access-date=13 October 2009 |archive-date=26 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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