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"Legend", Bob Marley's best-of Album a Milestone
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd1c3e6d-5efd-4ab7-8b1b-591e584ed762/BBCA6350-A9BB-48C9-9FE2-944AA2CEBA16/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm"><SPAN class="inside-head">'Legend,' Bob Marley's best-of album, lands on a milestone</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.usatoday.com/img/DB0360E1-8CD5-4F9D-84DF-5CF885CAB1A8" alt="Bob Marley's Legend has sold more than 10 million copies since 1991, according to Nielsen SoundScan." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm">Released in 1984, <I>Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers </I>didn't stir it up on the charts. It entered <I>Billboard </I>at No. 168 and peaked at No. 54.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm"><P class="inside-copy">But the reggae icon's posthumous collection has lived up to its name by becoming only the 17th album to exceed sales of 10 million copies since Nielsen SoundScan began tabulating in 1991.</p> <P class="inside-copy">It's quite a feat for an artist who never had a top 40 single and didn't win a Grammy in his lifetime.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm">"It's a quiet blockbuster that has been fan-generated as opposed to pushed by hype or a big campaign," says Paul Grein, who writes the Chart Watch blog for Yahoo.com. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-07-29-marley-legend_N.htm"><P class="inside-copy">Selling 250,000 copies most years (and 211,000 so far this year), <I>Legend </I>has topped the catalog chart 110 times, twice as often as any other title. Its tally of 10,033,000 does not include a 2002 deluxe reissue or pre-SoundScan sales.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BBCA6350-A9BB-48C9-9FE2-944AA2CEBA16/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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