History Music / TheDarkSideOfTheMoon

Within the year of its release alone, it topped the charts in the US, Austria, and Canada, and peaked at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart, remaining on the Billboard charts for 741 consecutive weeks until it finally fell off the chart in 1988 and a subsequent revision to the charts prevented legacy albums from being counted anymore. However, once Billboard created the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart in May 1991 to make up for that change, the album swiftly shot into there, and remains on them to this day. Another chart revision in 2009 allowed the album to return to the Billboard 200 once more, and it has since accumulated a total of 958 non-consecutive weeks on the chart as of 2021, far and away the most chart weeks of any album in Billboard history.

Since its release, it has been certified double-diamond in Canada, 16-fold platinum in New Zealand, 15-fold platinum in the US, 14-fold platinum in the UK and Australia, quintuple-platinum in Italy[[note]]it sold enough there to be potentially certified even higher, but the FIMI only started counting the album's numbers in 2009[[/note]], double-platinum in Argentina and Germany, platinum in France, Poland, and Russia, and gold in Belgium and the Czech Republic. However, this sudden super-stardom also sowed the seeds to the band's (especially Music/RogerWaters') later ArtistDisillusionment, which became very apparent on the band's later albums, particularly [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 its follow-up]].

** the more upbeat "Money" (although the lyrics are still satirical to say at least), is placed right after the rather sad "The Great Gig in the Sky".

--> ''And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too