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The Beach Boys' ‘Pet Sounds' Hits Highest Rank on Billboard 200 in Nearly 60 Years After Brian Wilson's Death

Following the death of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson at age 82 on June 11, the group's catalog surged 184% in equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending June 12, growing to 31,

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How the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ Entered the Pop Music Pantheon. (Eventually.)

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Remembering the Beach Boys' masterwork Pet Sounds as we mourn Brian Wilson's death

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The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ Hits Highest Rank on Billboard 200 in Nearly 60 Years After Brian Wilson’s Death

For the latter, it returns to the chart for the first time since July 2015, and to its highest rank since Feb. 18, 1968, when it ranked at No. 110.

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The musical mysteries Brian Wilson left behind

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God Only Knows Where California Would Be Without Brian Wilson

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"It's purely experimental, with zero regard for commercialism": How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music

Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session players, and began recording an all-time classic

The Beach Boys: 10 of their most memorable musical moments

Two "Pet Sounds" highlights, the former featuring envelope-pushing instrumentation and production and the latter, a deceptively complex harmonic structure as well as lyrics that were, at that point, taboo for a pop song because of the repeated references to God. The Beatles' Paul McCartney named "God Only Knows" his favorite song of all time.