Roger Waters And Pink Floyd Battle It Out On The Charts
One list in particular, the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, almost always includes at least one of the band's full-lengths. This week, Pink Floyd isn't the only act from the group's storied history that appears. For the first time in a while, one of its members is also present — and in a surprising twist, the soloist wins.
Both Roger Waters and Pink Floyd appear on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart this frame, and it's the soloist who earns the higher position.
Waters is present with one release, while his former band finds success with two separate titles, including a new winner. Still, the band lags behind the musician who helped build its reputation, and the powerful sellers are more closely connected than casual fans might expect.
Waters returns to the U.K. genre-specific ranking this week with The Dark Side of the Moon Redux. The album is a reimagined version of Pink Floyd's legendary The Dark Side of the Moon, and reenters the chart at No. 4. The artistic reinterpretation, which has previously climbed all the way to No. 1, is now up to 13 total frames spent somewhere on the tally.
Even as Waters brings his updated edition of the title back to the ranking, the original continues to hold on. The Dark Side of the Moon – the version that helped establish Pink Floyd as one of the most inventive names in rock music – only dips slightly this week. It slips from No. 13 to No. 14 on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart. That's barely a major decline, and with 652 weeks now spent on the list, it's clear the set isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
In addition to appearing with The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd also scores a new hit with a different, just-released title. To Control Space - Live 1969 opens at No. 28 on the same ranking, giving the group its fiftieth placement on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart.
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