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Forbes
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Pink Floyd Reaches A Landmark Number With Its Latest Bestseller
Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii debuts at No. 3 on the Top Album Sales chart, becoming the band's tenth ... More top 10 on the tally and its latest U.S. chart success. LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 1968: Psychedelic rock group Pink Floyd pose for a portrait shrouded in pink in August of 1968 in Los Angeles. (L-R) Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour, Rick Wright (center front), Roger Waters. (Photo by Michael) Pink Floyd returns to the Billboard rankings in the U.S. this week, as At Pompeii - MCMLXXII opens on five tallies. The project launches inside the top 10 on all but one of those lists, as it was fueled by strong sales tied to the band's recently re-released concert film of the same name. It's not surprising that At Pompeii enjoys a lofty starting point, as Pink Floyd remains one of the bestselling groups of all time. The rock outfit can still move a massive number of units whenever a new release drops. The group reaches toward the top of one special ranking with At Pompeii, as the band nearly captures another No. 1. The set sold a little more than 20,100 copies across the U.S. in its first seven days of availability, according to Luminate. That sum is enough to place the title at No. 3 on the Top Album Sales chart. That list, published by Billboard weekly, ranks the bestselling full-lengths and EPs in the country, regardless of genre or format. At Pompeii starting in third place earns Pink Floyd its milestone tenth top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart. The group has sent 21 different projects to the tally, which means that as of this frame, just under half have reached the uppermost region. Two of those efforts — The Division Bell and Pulse — hit No. 1. The former reached the summit in mid-1994 and held for four weeks, while Pulse opened in first place in June 1995 and led for just one frame. Some of the band's other highest-ranking efforts include Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, which peaked at No. 2, and several releases that reached No. 3, such as The Endless River, Animals, and now At Pompeii. Pink Floyd's latest release also lands inside the top 10 on the Vinyl Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. It misses the throne on the first two by just one space. On the Top Rock & Alternative Albums roster, it matches its performance on the Top Album Sales list, debuting at No. 3.
Forbes
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Pink Floyd Has Been Charting No. 1 Albums For More Than Half A Century
Many rock bands are lucky to make it to their first anniversary, and even successful ones usually only stay together for a few years. Only a handful of acts that find any real commercial success can continue to churn out appealing material for decades. Pink Floyd certainly stands among the few, but also in a league of its own. The rock outfit is back at No. 1 in the United Kingdom this week with At Pompeii - MCMLXXII. As the group returns to the top spot on the main albums ranking, it furthers its stretch of champions into yet another decade. Pink Floyd has been racking up No. 1 albums in the U.K. for more than half a century. In fact, it's been almost 55 years since the group collected its first No. 1 on the list of the most consumed albums in the country. The English rockers are now counted among the very, very few acts that have stretched No. 1s out across several decades. Pink Floyd first reached No. 1 on the Official Albums Chart in 1970 with Atom Heart Mother. The group would go on to send most of its next several releases to the summit, including Wish You Were Here, The Final Cut, The Division Bell, Pulse (live), and The Endless River. It's been just over a decade since Pink Floyd last collected a No. 1 album in the U.K. The Endless River stands as the band's last studio LP, and it hit the top spot in 2014. Since then, Pink Floyd has re-released special collections, but none of them have climbed toward the summit. At Pompeii was buoyed by the re-release of the concert film of the same name in theaters around the world earlier this year. Impressively, Pink Floyd has been releasing music for even longer than the 55 years in which the band has been scoring No. 1s. Atom Heart Mother was the group's fifth full-length. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which introduced the world to Pink Floyd, dropped in 1967. The rockers collected four top 10s on the Official Albums chart before finally reaching the top spot.
