Editing Super Audio CD (section)

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Many popular artists have released some or all of their back catalog on SACD. [[Pink Floyd]]'s album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' (1973) sold over 800,000 copies by June 2004 in its SACD Surround Sound edition.<ref name="SACDGold"/> [[The Who]]'s rock opera ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]'' (1969), and [[Roxy Music]]'s ''[[Avalon (Roxy Music album)|Avalon]]'' (1982), were released on SACD to take advantage of the format's multi-channel capability. All three albums were remixed in [[5.1 surround]], and released as hybrid SACDs with a stereo mix on the standard CD layer.

Some popular artists have released new recordings on SACD. Sales figures for [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s ''[[Sacred Love]]'' (2003) album reached number one on SACD sales charts in four European countries in June 2004.<ref name=SACDGold/>

Between 2007 and 2008, the rock band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] re-released all of their studio albums across three SACD box sets. Each album in these sets contains both new stereo and 5.1 mixes. The original stereo mixes were not included. The US & Canada versions do not use SACD but CD instead.

By August 2009, 443 labels had released one or more SACDs.<ref name="faq13" />

Many SACD discs that were released from 2000 to 2005 are now out of print and available only on the used market.<ref name="availability" /><ref name="availability_2" /> By 2009, the major record companies were no longer regularly releasing discs in the format, with new releases confined to the smaller labels.<ref name="availability_3" />