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Indifferencer t1_j65ndm6 wrote
Reply to comment by Xaenor in TIL that Haiti and Lichtenstein showed up to the 1936 Olympics with the exact same flag, which they had both been using for decades without knowledge of the similarity by Rickerpool
Also Chad and post-communist Romania
Indifferencer t1_j6p3hz1 wrote
Reply to TIL that the third best selling album of all time, ahead of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, is the soundtrack for 1992 film The Bodyguard by Linguini_gang
The thing about these best-selling lists is that they often are just US sales, and sales data prior to Soundscan is more of a guess. Another thing is that on some lists, double albums are counted as two copies, which is why many lists show The Wall as outselling Dark Side or the white album outselling Abbey Road. Plus of course since we reached the streaming era, the whole notion of ranking titles by sales seems moot. And isn’t Eagles Greatest Vol 1 the top-selling album of all time in the US now? It’s possible nobody really knows because again, sales numbers prior to the 90s were usually only an estimate.