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/Shinko Music/Getty Images) Pink Floyd live at Hakone Aphrodite, Kanagawa, August 6, 1971. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) 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. Pink Floyd’s New No. 1 Album 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 . Pink Floyd’s Milestone Top 10s 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. Pink Floyd’s Famed Concert Film 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. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2025/05/10/pink-floyd-charts-a-new-no-1-album-thanks-to-a-special-re-release/