Friday, July 30, 2010

George Roger Waters-Achievements

Achievements

  • Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), is one of the most commercially successful albums of all time, it spent 723 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. It still sells around 5,000 units every week, and is the "second best-selling album of all time worldwide".
  • The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ranks The Dark Side of the Moon number 21 on its "Top 100 Albums" list, with 15 million certified units sold in the US.
  • Pink Floyd's album The Wall is largely based on Waters' life story and having sold 23 million RIAA certified units in the US, it is one of the top three best-selling albums of all time in America.
  • The RIAA and the National Endowment for the Arts named the Waters composition "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" one of the "365 Top Selling Songs of the 20th Century".
  • "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" was ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
  • It is estimated that Pink Floyd has sold over 200 million albums worldwide[191][192][193] including 74.5 million certified units in the United States.
  • "What God Wants, Pt. 1" from Amused to Death, reached number 35 in the UK in September 1992and number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart in the US.
  • Waters' first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
  • Waters opera, Ça Ira reached number 5 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart in the US.
  • Waters was inducted into the US and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd.
  • In February 2009, he received a "Cinema for Peace" award for The Wall.
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