On This Date In Music

1969 - Blood, Sweat & Tears' LP Blood Sweat & Tears hits No. 1.

1973 - Dr Hook And The Medicine Show got their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine after their hit, 'The Cover of Rolling Stone' reached No. 6 on the US singles chart. According to members of the group, they really did buy five copies for their mothers, just like the song said.

 

1975 - Labelle went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Lady Marmalade', the group's only No. 1. American listeners are shocked when they track down French speakers to translate the line, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir." ("Do you want to sleep with me tonight?")

1975 - Led Zeppelin saw all six of their albums in the US Top 100 chart in the same week, alongside their latest album Physical Graffiti at No. 1. Physical Graffiti has now been certified 16 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 16 million copies. The other albums also on the chart: Led Zeppelin IV (No. 83), House of the Holy (No. 92), Led Zeppelin II (No. 104), Led Zeppelin (No. 116) and Led Zeppelin III (No. 124).

1980 - Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon album spent its 303rd week on the US album chart, beating the record set by Carole King's 1971 No. 1 album Tapestry. The album remained in the US Billboard charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in chart history. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006.