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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bob Marley's Legend has kept the title of second longest charting catalogue album on Billboard whilst also topping every major reggae chart on iTunes except Japan.
Marley, who would have been 65 on Saturday, currently charts at number 10 on Billboard Catalogue Albums with <span style="font-weight: bold">Legend, which has been on that chart for 914 weeks or some 17 years according to Billboard data.</span> The only album charting longer (at 944 weeks) is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at number 12. Marley's 1984 album currently outlasts catalogue albums by Journey, ABBA and the Beatles at 755 weeks, 416 weeks and 351 weeks respectively. Besides Marley's catalogue album, the reggae icon is also charting with his 2009 album B is For Bob on the Billboard Reggae Albums charts at number three.
<span style="font-weight: bold">At the same time, Legend was the top reggae download in 19 of the 22 listed countries on iTunes</span>, arguably the Internet's most popular online music store. <span style="font-weight: bold">Marley topped the iTunes chart in the US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland</span>. These online sales would augment the album's world-wide sales which have surpassed 20 million, according to Forbes and iafrica.com. The only countries in which Marley does not top the iTunes chart is in Japan, Sweden and Denmark. On those countries charts it is filled with indigenous specific reggae. </div></div>
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