It’s no shock that Pink Floyd is one of the best-selling bands of all time, but it might surprise some people to learn that the pioneering group is still on the charts today, nearly 60 years since the release of their debut record.
As Forbes reported, Pink Floyd’s beloved 1975 album Wish You Were Here, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, regained bestseller status in the U.K. on a number of tallies this week.
After an admittedly brief absence, Wish You Were Here returned to the Official Albums Sales, Official Physical Albums and Official Album Downloads charts (at #89, #90 and #99, respectively). And in just one more week, the album will hit a major milestone: Three full years, or 155 weeks, on the Official Physical Albums chart in total.
Wish You Were Here is also shooting up the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, going from #18 to #10 after spending over 600 weeks on the roster.
Curiously enough, at the same time, another classic Pink Floyd album is slipping down the same three tallies. 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon dropped to #66, #69 and #70 on the Official Albums Sales, Official Physical Albums and Official Album Downloads charts, respectively.
According to Forbes, it’s not clear why either album is going up or down, but it’s worth noting that Wish You Were Here never leaves the charts for very long…which makes sense considering the fact that appreciation for the record has only grown in the decades since it came out.
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Rolling Stone, for example, ranked Wish You Were Here at #264 on a list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” while Ultimate Classic Rock deemed it the second-best Pink Floyd album (after Dark Side of the Moon).
Even the members of Pink Floyd hold Wish You Were Here in high regard; as a video shared by Pink Floyd’s official TIkTok account revealed, Richard Wright and David Gilmour “called it their favorite Floyd record, a quiet masterpiece born from exhaustion, sadness, and love.”
On Spotify, Wish You Were Here‘s title track is Pink Floyd’s most played song, with over one billion streams. (Other streaming hits from the album include “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” with 310,932,264 streams and “Have a Cigar” with 263,573,883.)
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