Throughout March 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon featured as part of Pink Floyd’s US tour. The album is one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time. A US number-one, it remained on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart for more than fourteen years during the 1970s and 1980s, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. In Britain, it reached number two, spending 364 weeks on the UK chart. The Dark Side of the Moon is the world’s third best-selling album, and the twenty-first best-selling album of all time in the US. The success of the album brought enormous wealth to the members of Pink Floyd. Waters and Wright bought large country houses while Mason became a collector of expensive cars. Disenchanted with their US record company, Capitol Records , Pink Floyd and O’Rourke negotiated a new contract with Columbia Records , who gave them a reported advance of US$1,000,000 ($6,528,340 in 2025 dollars). In Europe, they continued to be represented by Harvest Records.
US tour
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