LED ZEPPELIN IV Re-Enters Billboard Charts After Nearly 25 Years!
November 17, 2011, 12 years ago
According to Billboard.biz, LED ZEPPELIN - priced at $5.99 at AmazonMP3 (see below) and $6.99 at iTunes - the band's classic 1971 album Led Zeppelin IV (which spent four weeks at No. 2), returns to the chart (No. 166) for the first time since 1987. It's up 273% in overall sales and 654% in downloads.
On November 8th, Led Zeppelin turned 40. The album has been referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, following the naming standard used by the band's first three studio albums and even Four Symbols that symbolized each band member: singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and late drummer John Bonham. Not only does the album have no title, but there is no writing on the front or back cover, or even a catalogue number on the spine (at least on the original LP release).
Following the lukewarm reaction to the band's acoustic-leaning III album, Led Zeppelin IV was more upbeat and sits as one of the most influential albums in hard rock/heavy metal history.
Led Zeppelin IV is the third best-selling album of all time in the US (23X Platinum) and featured the following stellar tracklisting:
'Black Dog'
'Rock And Roll'
'The Battle of Evermore'
'Stairway To Heaven'
'Misty Mountain Hop'
'Four Sticks'
'Going To California'
'When The Levee Breaks'
