Pink Floyd / discography

Pink Floyd  discography
Publications
Studio albums	15th
Live albums	3
Compilations	17th
EPs	9
Singles	28
Video albums	10
Box sets	12

This discography is an overview of the records of the British rock band Pink Floyd . According to the sources, the band has sold around 260 to 300 million records in their career. The most successful release is the studio album The Dark Side of the Moon with around 50 million units sold. Pink Floyd has sold over 7.5 million records to date in Germany alone and is therefore one of the performers with the highest number of records sold in Germany ; in addition, The Dark Side of the Moon  and  The Wall became two of the best-selling albums of all time, the list of the world's best-selling music albums .

Albums

Studio albums

Record cover "The Wall"

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1967	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	DE48 (1 month) DE	-	CH87 (1 week) CH	UK6th gold (18 weeks)UK	US131 (11 weeks) US	First published: August 4th, 1967 Sales: + 100,000
1968	A Saucerful of Secrets	DE57 (1 month) DE	-	-	UK9 silver (12 weeks)UK	US158 (1 week) US	First published: June 29, 1968 Sales: + 60,000
1969	More	DE74 (1 month) DE	-	-	UK9 (5 weeks) UK	US153 (7 weeks) US	First published: June 13, 1969
	Ummagumma	DE25 (5 months) DE	-	-	UK5 silver (21 weeks)UK	US74 platinum (27 weeks)US	First published: November 7, 1969 Sales: + 1,060,000
1970	Atom Heart Mother	DE8th gold (7 weeks)DE	AT- gold AT	CH81 (3 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (18 weeks)UK	US55 gold (13 weeks)US	First published: October 2, 1970 Sales: + 910,000
1971	Meddle	DE11 gold (11 weeks)DE	AT69 (1 week) AT	CH76 (2 weeks) CH	UK3 gold (85 weeks)UK	US70 × 2 Double platinum (73 weeks)US	First published: October 31, 1971 Sales: + 2,250,000
1972	Obscured by clouds	DE19 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6th silver (14 weeks)UK	US46 gold (25 weeks)US	First published: June 2, 1972 Sales: + 560,000
1973	The Dark Side of the Moon	DE3 × 2 Double platinum (67 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (54 weeks)AT	CH8 (60 weeks) CH	UK2 × 14 14 times platinum (536 weeks)UK	US1 × 5 Diamond + quintuple platinum (950 weeks)US	First published: March 1, 1973 Sales: + 50,000,000
1975	Wish You Were Here	DE4th platinum (211 weeks)DE	AT2 × 2 Double platinum (4½ months)AT	CH15 (13 weeks) CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (104 weeks)UK	US1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (46 weeks)US	First published: September 12, 1975 Sales: + 9,330,000
1977	Animals	DE1 platinum (26 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (29 weeks)AT	CH71 (1 week) CH	UK2 gold (35 weeks)UK	US3 × 4 Quadruple platinum (30 weeks)US	First published: Jan 23, 1977 Sales: + 4,570,000
1979	The Wall	DE1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (… Where.)DE	AT1 (49 weeks) AT	CH8th × 2 Double platinum (30 weeks)CH	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (67 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 × 3 Double diamond + triple platinum (154 weeks)US	First published: November 30, 1979 Sales: + 33,000,000
1983	The Final Cut	DE1 gold (27 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (13 weeks)AT	CH82 (1 week) CH	UK1 gold (25 weeks)UK	US6th × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)US	First published: March 21, 1983 Sales: + 2,590,000
1987	A Momentary Lapse of Reason	DE2 gold (35 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (23 months)AT	CH2 × 2 Double platinum (31 weeks)CH	UK3 gold (34 weeks)UK	US3 × 4 Quadruple platinum (56 weeks)US	First published: Sep 7, 1987 Sales: + 5,445,000
1994	The Bell Division	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (61 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (32 weeks)AT	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (44 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (63 weeks)UK	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (53 weeks)US	First published: March 28, 1994 Sales: +17,000,000
2014	The Endless River	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (29 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (13 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (22 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (19 weeks)UK	US3 gold (11 weeks)US	First published: November 7th, 2014 Sales: + 2,500,000

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Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1988	Delicate Sound of Thunder	DE9 gold (22 weeks)DE	AT15th gold (1 month)AT	CH4th platinum (16 weeks)CH	UK11 gold (12 weeks)UK	US11 × 3 Triple platinum (21 weeks)US	First published: November 22, 1988 Sales: + 4,020,000
1995	Pulse	DE1 platinum (61 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (20 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (25 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (29 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: May 29, 1995 Sales: + 3,590,000
2000	Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81	DE3 (9 weeks) DE	AT3 (5 weeks) AT	CH3 (9 weeks) CH	UK15th gold (6 weeks)UK	US19th platinum (9 weeks)US	First published: March 23, 2000 Sales: + 1,060,000

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1971	Relics	DE43 (1 week) DE	AT72 (1 week) AT	-	UK32 gold (8 weeks)UK	US152 (7 weeks) US	First published: May 14, 1971 Sales: + 100,000
1981	A Collection of Great Dance Songs	DE36 (13 weeks) DE	AT18th gold (½ month)AT	-	UK37 gold (10 weeks)UK	US31 × 2 Double platinum (16 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 1981 Sales: + 2,110,000
1983	Works	-	-	-	-	US68 (9 weeks) US	First published: June 18, 1983
2001	Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd	DE1 gold (19 weeks)DE	AT2 (17 weeks) AT	CH3 platinum (30 weeks)CH	UK2 × 3 Triple platinum (30 weeks)UK	US2 × 4 Quadruple platinum (26 weeks)US	First published: November 5, 2001 Sales: + 4,790,000
2011	A Foot in the Door - The Best Of	DE30 (10 weeks) DE	AT25 (10 weeks) AT	CH23 (27 weeks) CH	UK14th platinum (16 weeks)UK	US50 (17 weeks) US	First published: November 7, 2011 Sales: +610,000
2016	The Early Years 1965–1972 Creation	DE20 (2 weeks) DE	AT29 (2 weeks) AT	CH24 (4 weeks) CH	UK19 (5 weeks) UK	US103 (1 week) US	First published: November 11, 2016
2017	The Early Years 1965-1967: Cambridge Station	DE96 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 24, 2017
	The Early Years 1969: Dramatisation	DE87 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 24, 2017
	The Early Years 1970: Deviation	DE68 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 24, 2017
	The Early Years 1971: Reverberation	DE86 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 24, 2017
	The Early Years 1972: Obfuscation	DE61 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 24, 2017
2019	The Best of the Later Years: 1987-2019	DE18 (6 weeks) DE	AT50 (1 week) AT	CH10 (7 weeks) CH	UK32 (6 weeks) UK	US197 (1 week) US	First published: November 29, 2019

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More compilations

• 1970: The Best of Pink Floyd (1974 re-release under Masters of Rock Vol. 1 )
• 1983: Hits (Brazilian version of A Collection of Great Dance Songs with slightly different content)
• 1997: 1967 - The First Three Singles
• 2017: The Early Years 1968: Germin / ation

EPs

• 1967: Arnold Layne / Candy and a Currant Bun // Interstellar Overdrive
• 1967: See Emily Play / Scarecrow // Arnold Layne / Candy and a Currant Bun
• 1971: One of These Days / Julia Dream // Point Me at the Sky / See Emily Play
• 1980: The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 // Stop / The Trial / Outside the Wall
• 1982: Bring the Boys Back Home / Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 // When the Tigers Broke Free / Hey You
• 1987: Learning to Fly / On the Turning Away // One Slip / Sorrow
• 1991: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London… Plus
• 1995: London '66 -'67
• 2015: 1965: Their First Recordings

Singles

Chart placements as lead musician

Record cover "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)"

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1967	Arnold Layne	-	-	-	UK20 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 10, 1967
	See Emily Play	DE25 (1 month) DE	-	-	UK6 (12 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 16, 1967
1973	Money The Dark Side of the Moon	DE49 (1 week) DE	AT10 (1 month) AT	-	UK- silver UK	US13 (15 weeks) US	First published: May 7, 1973 Sales: + 250,000
1979	Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) The Wall	DE1 gold (34 weeks)DE	AT1 (5 months) AT	CH1 (17 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (12 weeks)UK	US1 Gold + platinum (25 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 1979 Sales: + 4,545,000
1980	Run Like Hell The Wall	DE46 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US53 (6 weeks) US	First published: April 17, 1980
1982	When the Tigers Broke Free	-	-	-	UK39 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 26, 1982
1983	Not Now John The Final Cut	-	-	-	UK30 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 3, 1983
1987	Learning to Fly A Momentary Lapse of Reason	DE71 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US70 (8 weeks) US	First published: September 14, 1987
	On the Turning Away A Momentary Lapse of Reason	-	-	-	UK55 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 14, 1987
1988	One Slip A Momentary Lapse of Reason	-	-	-	UK50 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 13, 1988
1994	Take It Back The Division Bell	DE75 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK23 (4 weeks) UK	US73 (7 weeks) US	First published: May 16, 1994
	High Hopes / Keep Talking The Division Bell	-	-	-	UK26 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 17, 1994
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2012	Wish You Were Here Wish You Were Here	DE67 (1 week) DE	AT48 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK68 platinum (1 week)UK	-	Chart entry: August 25, 2012 Sales: + 745,000

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Chart placements as a guest musician

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2006	Proper education	DE4 (16 weeks) DE	AT20 (15 weeks) AT	CH12 (22 weeks) CH	UK2 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1, 2006 Eric Prydz vs. Floyd

More singles

• 1967: Flaming
• 1967: Apples and Oranges
• 1968: It Would Be So Nice
• 1968: Let There Be More Light
• 1968: Point Me at the Sky
• 1971: One of These Days
• 1972: Free Four
• 1972: Julia Dream
• 1974: Time
• 1974: Us and Them / Time
• 1975: Have a Cigar (feat.Roy Harper )
• 1979: Comfortably Numb (UK:gold)
• 1979: Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
• 1987: The Dogs of War
• 1995: Wish You Were Here (Live)

Video albums and music videos

Video albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	PULSE	DE* × 7 Sevenfold gold DE	AT* platinum AT	CH5 × 3 Triple platinum (11 weeks)CH	UK* × 5 Quintuple platinum UK	US* × 8 Eight times platinum US	First published: June 1995 Sales: + 1,891,000 * see live album PULSE

More video albums

• 1972: Live at Pompeii (movie, 1981 on VHS; sales: + 200,000; US, UK:× 3Triple platinum )
• 1973: Crystal voyager (movie)
• 1982: Pink Floyd The Wall (movie; sales: + 300,000; DE:× 2Double platinum , UK: × 5Quintuple platinum )
• 1983: The Final Cut
• 1989: Delicate Sound of Thunder (Sales: + 200,000; US:× 2Double platinum )
• 1992: La Carrera Panamericana (documentary about the Carrera Panamericana 1991 with new and old songs by Pink Floyd)
• 1995: London '66 -'67
• 2003: Dark Side Of The Moon (DE:gold, US: × 3Triple platinum )
• 2007: The Making Of The Dark Side Of The Moon (UK:platinum)

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
1967	Arnold Layne	Derek Nice
	Apples and Oranges
	Paint box
1968	Point Me at the Sky
	Youth band blues
1971	One of these days	Ian Emes
1973	Money	Wayne Isham
	Brain damage
1975	Welcome to the machine	Gerald Scarfe
1979	Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)	Gerald Scarfe
1987	Learning to Fly	Storm Thorgerson
	The Dogs of War	Storm Thorgerson
	On the turning away	Lawrence Jordan
1988	One slip	Lawrence Jordan
1994	High hopes	Storm Thorgerson
	Take it back	Marc Brickman
2006	Proper education
2014	Marooned	Aubrey Powell
	Louder than words	Aubrey Powell

Box sets

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1973	A nice pair	-	-	-	UK21st gold (20 weeks)UK	US36 gold (17 weeks)US	First published: December 7, 1973 Sales: + 600,000
2011	Discovery	DE9 (9 weeks) DE	AT61 (1 week) AT	CH26 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: September 23, 2011 Sales: + 160,000
2016	The Early Years 1965-1972	DE61 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: November 11, 2016

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More box sets

• 1979: First XI (all studio albums from 1967 to 1977 including Relics )
• 1980: The Other Side of the Wall (South African double edition of Wish You Were Here and Animals )
• 1980: The Pink Floyd Collection ( New edition of First XI expanded to include The Wall )
• 1987: Pink Floyd - 20 Years 1967–1987 (Contains More , Atom Heart Mother , The Dark Side Of The Moon , Wish You Were Here and Animals )
• 1991: The Box 1975–1988 (Australian edition with the studio albums from 1975 to 1987 including A Collection of Great Dance Songs )
• 1992: Shine On (seven studio albums from 1968 to 1987 plus a collection of the first five singles; US:platinum)
• 1997: 1997 Vinyl Collection (seven studio albums from 1967 to 1979 including Relics )
• 2007: Oh by the Way (All 14 studio albums from 1967 to 1994)
• 2011: The Wall Singles Collection (three vinyl singles from the album The Wall on the occasion of Record Store Day 2011)

Unpublished material

The following list includes samplers with contributions from the band that are otherwise unpublished:

• 1968: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (Different versions of Interstellar Overdrive , later editions partly also with Nick's Boogie )
• 1970: Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air (Contains embryo from the Ummagumma sessions)
• 1970: Zabriskie Point (three songs recorded for the film, new edition with four additional songs)
• 1990: Knebworth (Live recordings of Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell on the album and Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Run Like Hell on the video)
• 2005: Live 8 - One Day One Concert One World (video album, contains the five songs of the Reunion on July 2, 2005)

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of Pink Floyd's chart successes in the album, single and music DVD charts. In Germany, there is a special feature that video albums are also placed in the album charts. In Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, separate chart lists are maintained for video albums.

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE7thDE AT5AT CH3CH UK6thUK US5US Top 10 albums DE14thDE AT11AT CH10CH UK17thUK US10US Albums in the charts DE31DE AT18thAT CH19thCH UK25thUK US26thUS

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE1DE AT1AT CH1CH UK1UK US1US Top 10 singles DE2DE AT2AT CH1CH UK3UK US1US Singles in the charts DE8thDE AT4thAT CH2CH UK11UK US5US

	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
Number one video albums	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK-UK	US-US
Top 10 video albums	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH1CH	UK-UK	US-US
Video albums on the charts	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH1CH	UK-UK	US-US

Awards for music sales

→ Main article : Pink Floyd / Music Sales Awards

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Argentina (CAPIF)	-	3 × gold3	10 × platinum10	-	518,000	capif.org.ar ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) AR2 ( Memento from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Australia (ARIA)	-	2 × gold2	65 × platinum65	-	2,357,500	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	3 × gold3	2 × platinum2	-	165,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	-	3 × platinum3	diamond1	540,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	5 × gold5	-	-	145,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	11 × gold11	16 × platinum16	-	7,500,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	5 × platinum5	-	(5,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	35,148	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	12 × gold12	11 × platinum11	3 × diamond3	6,190,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Greece (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	-	30,000	Individual evidence
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA)	-	-	platinum1	-	20,000	Individual evidence
Italy (FIMI)	-	11 × gold11	26 × platinum26th	-	2,445,000	fimi.it
Japan (RIAJ)	-	gold1	-	-	100,000	riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC)	-	3 × gold3	36 × platinum36	4 × diamond4th	6,940,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	-	210,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	60 × platinum60	-	807,500	nztop40.co.nz NZ2 ( Memento from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2	-	435,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	-	150,000	ifpi.no NO2
Austria (IFPI)	-	7 × gold7th	7 × platinum7th	-	467,500	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	6 × gold6th	12 × platinum12	-	620,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	-	2 × gold2	8 × platinum8th	-	139,500	Individual evidence
Russia (NFPF)	-	-	platinum1	-	20,000	2m-online.ru ( Memento from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Sweden (IFPI)	-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	-	210,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	13 × platinum13	-	478,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	3 × gold3	5 × platinum5	-	600,000	promusicae.es
Hungary (MAHASZ)	-	-	platinum1	-	6,000	slagerlistak.hu
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	59 × platinum59	3 × diamond3	78,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × silver4th	12 × gold12	43 × platinum43	-	12,300,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × silver4th	99 × gold99	394 × platinum394	11 × diamond11

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1. ↑ The 10 most successful bands of all time ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Blog art & culture. December 13, 2010, accessed April 29, 2014. 
2. ↑ bloomberg.com
3. ↑ Sales by The Wall
4. ↑ Sales by The Division Bell
5. ^ Sales of The Endless River

Web links

• Official discography on the band's homepage
• Extensive discography by Vernon Fitch
• Extensive discography for CDs and DVDs
• Discography at Discogs (English)
• Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US