# Pink Floyd **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 21, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581 "2009-04-21T08:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/41 "2009-04-22T12:08:04Z")
Britney Spears has sold 1.3 million in a week, so she must be freakin’ awesome. And Menudo has sold over 60 million, so they’re right up there too. What is it about you that makes me want to argue about stuff I don’t even care about? That’s gotta be a marketable skill somehow! ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/42 "2009-04-22T12:14:03Z")
> [@Need to Get 4 snow tires mounted around North Tonawanda, Tonawanda area.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-to-get-4-snow-tires-mounted-around-north-tonawanda-tonawanda-area/40173/6): > > Britney Spears has sold 1.3 million in a week, so she must be freakin’ awesome. > > And Menudo has sold over 60 million, so they’re right up there too. > > What is it about you that makes me want to argue about stuff I don’t even care about? That’s gotta be a marketable skill somehow! Don’t forget abba and the bee gees. Freakin’ awesome !!🤣🤣 > **[List of best-selling music artists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists)** > > The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales. > The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales... ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/43 "2009-04-22T12:52:53Z")
> [@Need to Get 4 snow tires mounted around North Tonawanda, Tonawanda area.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-to-get-4-snow-tires-mounted-around-north-tonawanda-tonawanda-area/40173/6): > > Britney Spears has sold 1.3 million in a week, so she must be freakin’ awesome. > > And Menudo has sold over 60 million, so they’re right up there too. > > What is it about you that makes me want to argue about stuff I don’t even care about? That’s gotta be a marketable skill somehow! lol @ you looking up Menudo record sales stats. ---
**Author:** ![fah\_quad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac91a4/32.png) [@fah\_quad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fah_quad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/44 "2009-04-22T15:02:00Z")
> [@brakeline help](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brakeline-help/40168/4): > > but the incessant shredding gets really boring to anyone other than a purist. Gilmour on the other hand, can make a simple 6-note blues minor scale sounds like it was drenched in feeling. Like BB King, his style was minimalistic but seething with emotion. THAT is what makes a guitarist stand out. Agreed on everything but the “purist” standpoint. Quite the contrary. True purists repsect rest values and how one note can be played with tone and feeling, as much if not more than speed and dexterity. Having all of it is awesome (someone like Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits comes to mind), but being able to shape and feel one note means so much more to me. Well placed rests are every bit as important as the notes. Comfortably Numb is still one of the all time great solos. Not a ton of notes, but feels perfect. But, when I was talking about sonic structure, I meant more from an entire production standpoint. Not just guiter. In fact I wasn’t even thinking guitarother than comparing to Hendrix. I meant they were doing things at the time that with the technology available, weren’t supposed to be able to be done. Like Hendrix. And as for album sales, look at the album that’s been in the top billboard charts forever. Dark Side of the Moon. Talk to me in almost 40 years and see if Brit-brit is on that list still. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/45 "2009-04-22T15:46:03Z")
> [@your worst work related injury.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-worst-work-related-injury/40166/20): > > Talk to me in almost 40 years and see if Brit-brit is on that list still. She’ll ALWAYS be on my list. :kekegay: ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581/46 "2009-04-22T15:46:34Z")
In the USA the LP was released before the introduction of platinum awards on 1 January 1976. It therefore held only a gold disc until 16 February 1990 when, following the release of the album on CD, it was certified 11x platinum. On 4 June 1998 the RIAA certified the album 15x platinum,[40] denoting sales of fifteen million in the United States alone—making it their biggest-selling album there (The Wall is 23x platinum, but as a double album this signifies sales of 11.5 million).[64] “Time”, “Money” and “Us and Them” remain radio favourites, with “Money” having sold well as a single in its own right.[58] **_Industry sources suggest that worldwide sales of the album total about forty million. Between 8,000–9,000 copies are sold each week,[59], and a total of 400,000 were sold in 2002, making it the 200th best-selling album of that year — nearly three decades after its initial release_**. According to an 2 August 2006 Wall Street Journal article, although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the USA alone and continues to log 9,600 sales per week domestically.[65] To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard’s Pop Catalogue Chart. It reached #1 when the 2003 hybrid CD/SACD edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the USA alone.[40] **_On the week of 5 May 2006 The Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1,500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalogue charts._** [47] **_It is estimated that one in every fourteen people in the USA under the age of fifty owns or has owned a copy._** [40] Pink Floyd FTMFW. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pink-floyd/202581.md?page=2)