Editing Countdown to Ecstasy (section)

==Marketing and sales==
''Countdown to Ecstasy'' was released in July 1973 by ABC Records in the United States and [[Probe Records]] in the United Kingdom. It failed to generate a [[hit single]]<ref name="allmusicbio">{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steely-dan-mn0000011707|title=Steely Dan|website=Allmusic|access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> and was less commercially successful than ''Can't Buy a Thrill'',{{sfn|Heatley|Lester|Roberts|1998|p=50}} only charting at number 35 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape]] chart.{{sfn|Uslan|Clark|Solomon|1981|p=392}} Nonetheless, it spent 34 weeks on the chart{{sfn|Heatley|Lester|Roberts|1998|p=50}} and was certified [[RIAA certification|Gold]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA)  in 1978, recognizing the shipment of 500,000 copies in the U.S.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA71|access-date=April 8, 2013|title=Flipping Through the Catalog|page=71|date=January 15, 2000|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|last=Hay|first=Carla|volume=112|issue=3}}</ref>