Pink Floyd / discography
Pink Floyd discography
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Publications | |
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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
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
(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
(67 weeks)DE |
AT1 × 2
(54 weeks)AT |
CH8 (60 weeks) CH |
UK2 × 14
(536 weeks)UK |
US1 × 5
(950 weeks)US |
First published: March 1, 1973
Sales: + 50,000,000 |
1975 | Wish You Were Here |
DE4th
platinum
(211 weeks)DE |
AT2 × 2
(4½ months)AT |
CH15 (13 weeks) CH |
UK1 × 2
(104 weeks)UK |
US1 × 6
(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
(30 weeks)US |
First published:
Jan 23, 1977 Sales: + 4,570,000 |
1979 | The Wall |
DE1 × 4
(… Where.)DE |
AT1 (49 weeks) AT |
CH8th × 2
(30 weeks)CH |
UK3 × 2
(67 weeks)UK |
US1 × 2
× 3
(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
(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
(31 weeks)CH |
UK3
gold
(34 weeks)UK |
US3 × 4
(56 weeks)US |
First published:
Sep 7, 1987 Sales: + 5,445,000 |
1994 | The Bell Division |
DE1 × 3
(61 weeks)DE |
AT1
platinum
(32 weeks)AT |
CH1 × 2
(44 weeks)CH |
UK1 × 2
(63 weeks)UK |
US1 × 3
(53 weeks)US |
First published: March 28, 1994
Sales: +17,000,000 |
2014 | The Endless River |
DE1 × 3
(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 |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
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
(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
(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
(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
(30 weeks)UK |
US2 × 4
(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
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
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
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 |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
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
|
AT*
platinum
AT
|
CH5 × 3
(11 weeks)CH |
UK* × 5
|
US* × 8
|
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
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
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.
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |
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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
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | diamond | Sales | swell |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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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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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ bloomberg.com
- ↑ Sales by The Wall
- ↑ Sales by The Division Bell
- ^ 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