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Legend holds the distinction of being the second longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine. Combining its chart life on the Billboard 200 and the Top Pop Catalog Albums charts, Legend has had a chart run of 992 non-consecutive weeks, surpassed only by The Dark Side of the Moon at 1574 weeks. In the United Kingdom, Legend has sold 2,826,912 copies as of June 2009, making it the 25th biggest selling album of all time in that country, although to date it has apparently only been certified platinum six times in the UK denoting 1,800,000 copies shipped out. As of June 2012, the album has charted for 761 weeks there.
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