Most records get a few weeks on the chart. This one never really left. Pink Floyd’s eighth album landed on March 1, 1973, hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 that April, and then quietly refused to go away, it holds the record for the most weeks any album has ever spent on that chart, closing in on a thousand non-consecutive weeks by early 2026. Nineteen years of chart time, spread across decades. People kept buying it long after the band stopped touring it.

It was made at Abbey Road with engineer Alan Parsons, and built around things most bands edit out, heartbeats, cash registers, an alarm clock, a janitor muttering down a corridor. The most-replayed voice on it belongs to someone who wasn’t in the band at all. Clare Torry, a session singer, improvised the wordless vocal on “The Great Gig in the Sky” in a couple of takes, got paid the standard £30 Sunday rate, and went home uncredited. Thirty years later she sued for co-authorship, and won. Press play and you’re hearing a record that turned breathing, money and madness into something you can hum.