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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.
Forbes
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Pink Floyd Charts A New No. 1 Album Thanks To A Special Re-Release
Pink Floyd earns its seventh U.K. No. 1 album with At Pompeii - MCMLXXII , the band's first ... More chart-topper since 2014's The Endless River. (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/) Pink Floyd live at Hakone Aphrodite, Kanagawa, August 6, 1971. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/) It's 2025 and Pink Floyd is back at No. 1. The legendary rock band scores a brand new chart-topping album in the United Kingdom as At Pompeii - MCMLXXII debuts in first place on the list of the most consumed full-lengths and EPs in the country. Pink Floyd has been on quite the winning streak lately, with both a hugely successful concert film re-release and now a bestselling album to go with it, and both come from recordings made more than half a century ago. At Pompeii - MCMLXXII marks Pink Floyd's seventh chart-topper in the U.K. The group hasn't collected a new champion since 2014's The Endless River, which stands as its last studio LP of original material. Pink Floyd first reached the summit on the Official Albums chart in 1970 with Atom Heart Mother. Over the decades, the group returned to the throne with Wish You Were Here, The Final Cut, The Division Bell, Pulse (Live), and then later The Endless River. Including its seven No. 1s, Pink Floyd has now earned a milestone 20 top 10s on the Official Albums chart. That roster includes some of the group's most successful efforts, which somehow never managed to dominate this all-encompassing ranking, including beloved projects like The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals and The Wall, all of which lived inside the top five for a time. At Pompeii - MCMLXXII shares its name (at least partially) with a concert film Pink Floyd recorded in 1971 in the ancient Roman ruins. It was originally released the following year and has since become not just a huge commercial and critical success, but also the blueprint that which many other musical acts have followed. The movie was recently restored and re-released into cinemas around the world. So far, the film has earned about $6.5 million at the global box office, enough to make it one of the top-performing music-related projects of the year. The film's soundtrack dropped shortly after the movie became a top performer again at the box office and was released in various formats, including — for the first time — on vinyl.
