Pink Floyd Sends Two Classics Back To The Same Chart

Two Pink Floyd masterpieces — Wish You Were Here and The Dark Side of the Moon — some return to the U.K.'s Album Downloads chart. UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of PINK FLOYD; L-R: Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Rick Wright - posed, group shot, opinionated down mixing table successful signaling workplace power room (Photo by Andrew Whittuck/Redferns)

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It is different to spot Pink Floyd look connected the charts successful the United Kingdom pinch only 1 aliases 2 albums astatine a time. The group remains 1 of the astir successful and beloved acts successful stone history, arsenic good arsenic a commercialized juggernaut successful its location state decades aft galore of its astir celebrated compositions were first released.

Pink Floyd often occupies aggregate rankings pinch respective collections — and sometimes deed songs — astatine the aforesaid time. This week, a fistful of the band’s classical blockbusters proceed to waste good capable to look crossed a assortment of rosters. Two of its astir celebrated projects moreover negociate to return to the aforesaid ranking together, wherever they onshore only a fewer spaces isolated from 1 another.

Pink Floyd Sends Two Albums Back to the Same Chart

The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here some reenter the Official Album Downloads chart this week. The Dark Side of the Moon comes backmost successful astatine No. 41, missing the apical 40 by conscionable 1 space. Wish You Were Here returns astatine No. 52, settling somewhat underneath the precocious half of the 100-position roster.

The Official Album Downloads floor plan ranks the top-selling downloads – looking only astatine albums and EPs – successful the U.K. It does not see streaming activity aliases purchases of beingness formats, focusing only connected those sets bought digitally connected sites for illustration iTunes.

Pink Floyd Returns After a Short Absence

Neither Pink Floyd classical had been absent from the Official Album Downloads tally for very long. Wish You Were Here slipped distant aft the first week of July, while The Dark Side of the Moon was past seen successful the mediate of the month.

The 2 albums person managed astir identical runs connected the list, erstwhile looking astatine clip spent connected the tally. The type of The Dark Side of the Moon that is presently a bestseller has spent 66 weeks connected the Official Album Downloads chart, while Wish You Were Here has scored only 2 further frames.

Four Versions of The Dark Side of the Moon Have Charted

Only 1 type of Wish You Were Here has reached the Official Album Downloads chart. It arrived successful April 2006, astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the first version of The Dark Side of the Moon to onshore connected the ranking.

Throughout the 2 decades since then, aggregate versions of The Dark Side of the Moon person appeared connected the tally. That sometimes happens successful the U.K. erstwhile an medium is reissued pinch further worldly aliases altered packaging aliases possibly a somewhat different title that allows it to beryllium counted separately.

Four iterations of The Dark Side of the Moon – 1 of the bestselling albums of each clip – person reached the Official Album Downloads floor plan passim the years. The type that returns astatine No. 41 this week first debuted successful November 2024. It whitethorn beryllium up to 66 frames connected the tally, and erstwhile each 4 editions of the bestseller are combined, The Dark Side of the Moon has spent a full of 333 weeks connected the downloads registry successful the U.K.

Pink Floyd Has Never Hit No. 1 connected the Downloads Chart

Somewhat surprisingly, Pink Floyd has ne'er reached No. 1 connected the Official Album Downloads chart, though the set has travel highly adjacent connected aggregate occasions. At Pompeii – MCMLXXII and The Endless River some missed the acme by 1 space. Wish You Were Here followed intimately behind, topping retired astatine No. 3.

The first type of The Dark Side of the Moon to scope the tally climbed arsenic precocious arsenic No. 8. Later editions besides reached the apical 40, though nary of those consequent releases managed to break into the apical 10.

Here are each of Pink Floyd’s apical 10s connected the Official Album Downloads chart.

• Animals
• At Pompeii – MCMLXXII
• Live astatine Knebworth 1990
• The Dark Side of the Moon
• The Endless River
• Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here Recently Passed 600 Weeks

Aside from the roster wherever it returns, Wish You Were Here appears connected only 1 further ranking successful the U.K. The task slips 3 spaces from No. 25 to No. 28 connected the Official Rock & Metal Albums tally. The genre-specific roster tracks the most-consumed stone and metallic full-lengths only successful the country. Wish You Were Here precocious passed 600 weeks connected the list.

The Dark Side of the Moon Appears connected Four U.K. Charts

The Dark Side of the Moon lives connected 3 further rankings beyond the Official Album Downloads chart. It holds dependable connected 2 of them and declines somewhat connected the third.

The group remains astatine Nos. 15 and 86 connected the Official Rock & Metal Albums and Official Albums Sales charts, respectively. It slips to No. 91 connected the Official Physical Albums ranking, astir falling disconnected of the tally entirely.

Pink Floyd Returns With One Song

Pink Floyd appears connected only 1 songs ranking successful the U.K. this week, and the set hardly manages to find abstraction connected that sole roster. “Rise Up,” the group’s collaboration pinch Andriy Khlyvnyuk, returns to the Official Physical Singles floor plan astatine No. 95. The opus has now spent 66 weeks arsenic 1 of the top-selling tunes connected immoderate beingness format – CD, cassette and vinyl are each included successful the roster’s methodology – and antecedently worked its measurement to No. 1.