Led Zeppelin Is Flying High On The Charts Again [Forbes] 4/14/24

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Led Zeppelin Is Flying High On The Charts Again

FORBES | Hugh McIntyre | Apr 14, 2024

Led Zeppelin broke up as a band more than 40 years ago. They only released music for about a decade, but during that time, they produced some of the most exciting, boundary-pushing, and commercially successful hard rock in history.

To this day, the band continues to sell well, and millions of fans around the world can’t seem to get enough of their music. This week, on the Billboard charts, the group sees one of their most important albums climb, while one of their biggest smashes finds its way back to a ranking.

Led Zeppelin’s Mothership is up slightly on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart. That ranking lists the most-consumed full-lengths and EPs in the U.S. each week that Billboard classifies as hard rock when it comes to genre. The roster uses a methodology that combines streams and sales to highlight popularity, not necessarily what’s the bestselling or most-streamed, specifically.

Mothership improves from No. 17 to No. 15 on the 25-spot tally. The set has previously ruled over the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, and it’s now racked up 341 stays somewhere on the list.

Released in 2007, Mothership is a compilation of some of Led Zeppelin’s biggest and favorite songs. The living band members chose the tracks, pulling from their eight studio full-lengths. Mothership reached the top 10 on charts all around the world nearly two decades ago when it was first shared, including in the U.S. and the U.K......

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[luvlz2]

Led Zeppelin endures!

[custard pie man]

quite surprising

[rm2551]

The music is timeless. If the young'uns are adventurous enough to give them a go, A lot of them will clue into the fact that this era had the most epic music, and Zep ruled that era.

The old adage they just don't make 'em like that anymore is so true.

[John M]

We are 50 years or so from the middle of the Zep era.

If I go back 50 years from 1973-75 we are at 1923-25.  Recording technology was in it's infancy.  Records were just hitting the market in a big way.  People were buying 78 rpm singles of songs by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven , Bessie Smith,  Ma Rainey, Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, Ben Bernie, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson.  The first Duke Ellington single I can find listed was released in 1927.

[rm2551]

On 4/18/2024 at 12:13 AM, John M said:

We are 50 years or so from the middle of the Zep era.

If I go back 50 years from 1973-75 we are at 1923-25.  Recording technology was in it's infancy.  Records were just hitting the market in a big way.  People were buying 78 rpm singles of songs by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven , Bessie Smith,  Ma Rainey, Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, Ben Bernie, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson.  The first Duke Ellington single I can find listed was released in 1927.

That's so interesting. And to think of how many British up starts were tuned into blues from, what, 35+ years previous? It seems a LOT of British bands and artists were discovering very early recorded blues and built mad careers off the inspiration of that era.

[Todd K Stearns]

There's music then there's Led Zeppelin. People will still be listening to Zep long after we're all gone.