Pink Floyd return to top of UK album charts with 1972 Pompeii concert recording

A signaling of Pink Floyd’s eerie and evocative 1972 gig successful the ruins of Pompeii, entitled Pink Floyd astatine Pompeii – MCMLXXII, has go the band’s seventh UK chart-topping album.

The medium captures the gig that was documented by manager Adrian Maben for 1 of rock’s astir arresting performance films, which has been restored to 4K prime and rereleased successful cinemas, including successful Imax format. A signaling of the gig was antecedently included arsenic portion of a larger Pink Floyd container set, but this is the archetypal standalone version, featuring a caller dependable premix helmed by prog stone instrumentalist Steven Wilson.

It is Pink Floyd’s archetypal No 1 since 2014’s The Endless River, their last workplace album. Atom Heart Mother (1970), Wish You Were Here (1975), The Final Cut (1983), The Division Bell (1994) and Pulse (1995) were their different UK chart-toppers.

Despite going 16 times platinum and spending 578 weeks connected the chart, The Dark Side of the Moon lone ever reached No 2, having been held disconnected the apical successful its March 1973 week of merchandise by the forgotten compilation 20 Flash Back Greats of the Sixties. Classics specified arsenic Meddle, Animals and The Wall besides placed successful the Top 3 without reaching No 1, trumped by artists including Rod Stewart, the Shadows and Abba.

Surprisingly, Pink Floyd astatine Pompeii – MCMLXXII isn’t the lone caller introduction connected this week’s illustration from a British set performing amid the ruins of classical antiquity. Brit-poppers James are astatine No 27 this week with James (Live astatine the Acropolis), their July 2023 performance astatine the Odeon of Herodes Atticus beneath the Acropolis successful Athens.

Other caller entries this week see Erasure’s Andy Bell, who earns his archetypal solo introduction connected the chart, reaching No 4 with his 3rd album, Ten Crowns. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet spends its 37th consecutive week successful the UK Top 5, hopping backmost to No 2.

In the singles chart, Alex Warren’s Ordinary spends its eighth week astatine No 1, portion astatine No 2 is US R&B vocalist Ravyn Lenae who continues to interruption done with her archetypal UK hit, Love Me Not. Released successful August 2024, it entered the illustration successful February astatine No 89 and has climbed each week since.