Nirvana's Nevermind has been on the Billboard Chart200 for 700 weeks

Nirvana’s Nevermind has been on the Billboard Chart200 for 700 weeks

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The album “Nevermind” of the Nirvana It’s its 700th week on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart. This means the album has spent 13.4 non-consecutive years on the chart, where it currently sits at number 120.

The seminal 1991 album is only the ninth to reach this milestone, and only the fourth studio LP if you don’t count the greatest hits compilations.

According to a ranking drawn up by Consequence, the other albums that have achieved similar results are “The Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd, which spent 990 weeks on the charts, “Black Album” by Metallica with 767 weeks and “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” by Bruno Mars (706 weeks).

Generally, greatest-hits collections tend to stay in the charts longer: that of Bob Marley and the Wailers remained for 865 weeks, that of Journey for 835 weeks, that of Creedence Clearwater Revival for 724 weeks, that of Eminem for 714 weeks and that of Guns N’ Roses for 704 weeks.

“Nevermind” was released in September 1991 and reached number one on the Billboard 200 in January of the following year, displacing “Dangerous” by Michael Jackson.

To date it has sold more than 30 million copies.

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