Editing Aqualung (album) (section)

==Release==

In April 1971, ''Aqualung'' peaked at number four on the UK Album Chart; when the CD version was released in 1996, it reached number 52.<ref name="Chart Stats">{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/jethro%20tull/ |title=Jethro Tull: Official Charts |work=[[The Official Charts Company]] |access-date=21 April 2012}}</ref> It peaked at No. 7 on the [[Billboard charts|Billboard]]'s North American pop albums chart;<ref name="US" >{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/aqualung-mw0000024632/awards|title=Aqualung – Jethro Tull Awards|work=[[AllMusic]] | publisher = [[Rovi Corporation]]|access-date=10 April 2016}}</ref> the single "[[Hymn 43]]" hit No. 91 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart.<ref name="Hymn 43 Billboard">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=jethro tull|chart=all}} |title=Hymn 43 - Jethro Tull: Billboard.com |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=5 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407140210/http://www.billboard.com/ |archive-date=7 April 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy }}</ref> The album went on to sell over seven million copies, and is the band's best-selling album.<ref name="Discography"/> ''Aqualung'' was one of Jethro Tull's albums that were released in [[quadraphonic sound]]. The quadraphonic version of "Wind Up", which is in a slightly higher key, is included on a later CD reissue of the album as "Wind Up (quad version)".<ref name="Discography">{{cite web|url=http://www.j-tull.com/discography/aqualung/index.html |title=Aqualung&nbsp;– The Official Jethro Tull Website |publisher=Jethro Tull |access-date=5 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514082001/http://www.j-tull.com/discography/aqualung/index.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 }}</ref>

The single "[[Hymn 43]]" was released on 14 August 1971, and reached number 91 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 charts, spending two weeks in the chart.<ref name="Hymn 43 Billboard"/> The song was the first single to chart by the band in the United States.<ref name="Discography"/> It was later included in the video game ''[[Rock Band 2]]'' as downloadable content;<ref name="Rock Band 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.rockband.com/songs/hymn43 |title=Hymn 43 by Jethro Tull // Songs // Rock Band |publisher=[[Harmonix Music Systems]] |access-date=18 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718175726/http://www.rockband.com/songs/hymn43 |archive-date=18 July 2010 }}</ref> which also featured the album's title track.<ref name="RB2, 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.rockband.com/songs/aqualung |title=Aqualung by Jethro Tull // Songs // Rock Band |publisher=[[Harmonix Music Systems]] |access-date=17 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013202407/http://www.rockband.com/songs/aqualung |archive-date=13 October 2012 }}</ref>

The album was re-released in a 40th anniversary edition on 31 October 2011. The release contains a new stereo and 5.1 surround remix of the album by British musician and producer [[Steven Wilson]], the original quadraphonic mix, and comes in three different editions—a "collector's edition" containing the album on LP and two CDs, as well a DVD and a Blu-ray disc (with better sound quality than the DVD) and a hardback book;  a "special edition" containing the two CDs and an abridged version of the book; and an "adapted edition" containing two CDs (with 2 extra songs not included in the other two 40th anniversary editions) and 2 DVDs in a hardcover book (written content is the same as in the Collector's Edition book, only the Chronology differs slightly).<ref name="40th">{{cite web|url=http://j-tull.com/discography/aqualungcollectors/index.html |title=Aqualung 40th Anniversary Collector's and Special Editions |first=Ian |last=Anderson |access-date=17 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925022357/http://www.j-tull.com/discography/aqualungcollectors/index.html |archive-date=25 September 2011 }}</ref> Justifying the remix, Steven Wilson said: "Jethro Tull's ''Aqualung'' is&nbsp;... a masterpiece, but was sonically a very poor-sounding record. So, some didn't rate it as highly as they should have. What we did with ''Aqualung'' was really make that record gleam in a way it never gleamed before. I think a lot of people, including myself, have come around to thinking that the album is a lot better than they even gave it credit for previously. So, there is certainly something very gratifying about being able to polish what was already a diamond and making it shine in a way it never has before".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://innerviews.org/inner/wilson.html |title=Steven Wilson - Art as a mirror |publisher=Innerviews.org |access-date=1 May 2015}}</ref> Additionally, according to mastering engineer [[Steve Hoffman (audio engineer)|Steve Hoffman]] there were tape stretching problems with the original session mixdown master, implying that many editions of the album used multigeneration copies as their source.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eqfuentes.com/video/13|title=Steve Hoffman and Jethro Tull|publisher=Eqfuentes.com|access-date=1 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030016/http://www.eqfuentes.com/video/13|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eqfuentes.com/video/14|title=Jethro Tull's Aqualung tape trouble|publisher=Eqfuentes.com|access-date=1 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001540/http://www.eqfuentes.com/video/14|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>