Bob Marley’s mega-selling 30-year old album Legend is on course for it’s first visit to the Top 10 on the US album charts! About time!
(To watch the above video – Three Little Birds – in Creation 5, just tap here.)
The album, which was released in 1984 by Island Records, has sold steadily over the years but incredibly has never visited the Top 10 before.
Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers – a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format, and the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with over 13 million copies sold in the US and approximately 25 million copies sold globally. In 2003, the album was ranked Nº46 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album also holds the distinction of being the second longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine. If you combine its chart life on the Billboard 200 and the Top Pop Catalog Albums charts it has had a chart run of 992 non-consecutive weeks, beaten only by Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon at 1574 weeks.
This sudden surge in chart rankings is thanks to a 99-cent sale on the Google Play Store. The album normally sells for 8 dollars. According to the Universal Music Group which distributes the album, Google is paying the company full price and selects albums for sale promotions “all on their own”. Sale and heavily discounted albums are eligible for inclusion on the Billboard charts so long as they are not priced below $3.49 in their first 4 weeks of release. (Free or giveaway albums are never included).
The new Top 10 on the Billboard 200 will be revealed on Wednesday September 10. For more information on this story visit Billboard Magazine.
Here’s the full album – Legend. To listen to this album in Creation 5, and download it, just tap here.
