In 1973, a pioneering Pink Floyd album debuted at 95 in the US charts. Now, it has sold 50,000,000 copies

Pink Floyd’s *The Dark Side of the Moon* has become one of the world’s best-selling albums, despite a modest start in the US charts in 1973. The article credits the band’s focus on creating a unified, start-to-finish listening experience with helping define the record’s lasting appeal.

The band chose not to release advance singles, believing they would detract from the album as a whole; it initially reached only number 95 in the US. Nick Mason has called it the band’s most complete album, praising the contributions of all the members and Roger Waters’s lyrics. The article says it has sold 50 million copies.