This band is so popular, and has been for so long, that it’s basically impossible to imagine the rock/pop landscape without them. Even Pink Floyd tribute acts do incredibly well: Easy Star All Stars’ dub reggae revision of The Dark Side of the Moon held onto a spot in the reggae charts for five years. The poster of six naked women with Floyd album covers painted on their backs is a dorm-room staple, rivaling Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory and the Scarface film poster in popularity. Planetarium laser shows set to their music are so popular that they’ve become a stoner cliché. Pink Floyd’s songs have been covered, referenced, and parodied into oblivion. Their cultural reach is epically, imperially huge.Īnd that reach does not end with their album and merchandise sales, which continue to pile up almost 20 years after their demise. And that figure doesn’t include all of the people who’ve pirated their albums, or who never bought their albums but have heard their music on the radio for decades, or who’ve lived with family members and spouses who played Pink Floyd in their homes, and so on. Only the Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, and Elton John have done better. That puts them ahead of Celine Dion, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, and ABBA, among others. Pink Floyd has effectively sold an album to every single one of those people. In 1990, there were just under 250 million people living in the United States of America. The human brain tends to gloss over numbers of that size when they’re delivered without context, so here’s some.
According to Wikipedia, they’ve sold roughly 250 million albums. Their record sales figures alone boggle the mind. In the same way, Pink Floyd - one of the most popular musical groups of all time - has been normalized by their ubiquity. bit deals with this phenomenon, but I digress.) Humans can fly! We cured smallpox! You can talk to anyone on the planet instantaneously! These facts are insane when you think about them, but nobody does because we’re used to them. But nobody’s taken aback by this fact because, welp, they’ve been doing that shit since your grandpa’s time.
Mankind can harvest vast energy from the basic stuff of matter, using means that only people with considerable higher education can even describe accurately. Time has a marvelous ability to render the absurd familiar.
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