Pink Floyd picks up from where they left

Endless River has already recorded a sale of more than 139,000 copies in the previous week.

British progressive rock band, Pink Floyd has picked up from exactly where they left, as the band, which released its first studio album in nearly 20 years, has reached the top of the British album charts, reported Reuters.

The album titled The Endless River has already become the third fastest-selling album this year by a single group or artist after recording sales of more than 139,000 copies during the previous week.



The band has already said that the album will be their last one. The album which has received mixed reviews, has performed well, according to entertainment website, Metacritic.com.

According to The Telegraph, the album contains unreleased materials from their last studio album The Division Bell, with the band describing the album as predominantly instrumental.

A tribute to the band’s keyboardist Rick Wright who died in 2008, it is Pink Floyd’s sixth British number one album and their first since Pulse in 1995. Foo Fighters were also a new entry at number two with Sonic Highways, while last week’s chart topper X by Ed Sheeran slid two places to number three.

Sheeran also featured in the singles chart, where his track Thinking Out Loud stayed in second place, ahead of One Direction’s Steal My Girl which climbed six places to third. Topping the singles chart was a celebrity cover version of Avicii’s Wake Me Up, recorded by Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir in aid of charity Children in Need.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2014.

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