Over 4 a long time after his dying, reggae legend Bob Marley remains to be making historical past.
Legend, the best hits compilation by Bob Marley and the Wailers, ranked No. 106 on this week’s Billboard 200, marking its 800th week on the chart.
The album is the second in historical past to make it to 800 weeks on the Billboard 200 — which ranks the most-consumed albums within the U.S. based mostly on a strategy that mixes gross sales and streaming exercise.
The Darkish Facet of the Moon album by the English rock band Pink Floyd achieved this feat years in the past. In 2020, the traditional rock album reached an unprecedented 950 weeks on the Billboard 200.
The Legend album was launched in Could 1984 by Island Data, a number of years after Marley’s passing in 1981. It collects most of the singer’s largest hits and a number of other different recordings, and it has gone on to change into one of many bestselling albums in U.S. historical past, with over 12 million offered within the US, over 3.3 million in the UK, and an estimated 25 million copies offered globally. It additionally ranks because the best-selling reggae album of all time.
Rather less than a decade in the past, it was licensed 15 occasions platinum by the RIAA for shifting at the least 15 million copies in america, and later licensed 14 occasions platinum within the U.Okay.
Legend has additionally spent 1,100 weeks within the prime 100 of the UK Albums Chart — the third longest run in that chart’s historical past, behind works by British rock band Queen and pop group ABBA.
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Marley additionally ranks as one of many best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated gross sales of greater than 75 million information worldwide.
In 1994, Bob Marley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked him No. 11 on its record of the 100 Best Artists of All Time and No. 98 on its record of the 200 Best Singers of All Time.
His different achievements embrace a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, and induction into the Black Music & Leisure Stroll of Fame.
