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Announced via the Official UK Charts today, Pink Floyd have earned the Christmas Number 1 album of 2025 with Wish You Were Here, 50 years after it first topped the chart. They previously reached the coveted Christmas Number 1 in 1979 with their iconic hit “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” from The Wall.
The band released the Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue on December 12 across digital and physical formats, celebrating the landmark album. The release includes a brand new Dolby Atmos mix, six previously unreleased alternate versions and demos, along with a restored and remastered live bootleg recording from April 1975.
As a result, it achieves the accolade of the longest span between their first Number 1 album to their last Number 1, clocking in at over 50 years (or 2,620 weeks). Floyd overtakes another legendary band in The Beatles and Abbey Road, who previously held the title with 49 years and 252 days between Number 1s, first hitting the summit in 1969 before regaining the top spot in 2019.
This occasion also marks their second Number 1 album of the year, following Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, the live album filmed and recorded in October 1971 and released as a film in 1972. The film and album were later digitally remastered from the original 35mm footage, with newly mixed audio by Steven Wilson, and re-released in May 2025. This marks the first time the band have ever claimed two Number 1 albums in the same year.
Wish You Were Here also tops this week’s Official Album Vinyl Chart, shifting the most copies on wax over the past seven days as well hitting the summit on the Official Record Store Chart, crowned the most popular album in UK independent record shops this week.
A massive congratulations to the team at Sony for curating yet another fantastic release, and of course to the band themselves, as well as to James Guthrie for another stellar multichannel mix (as well as a few new mix & mastering jobs on the extras), and to Steven Wilson for restoring a beloved audio bootleg from that era. A job well done, indeed.
We’re not the only ones celebrating. Here’s David Gilmour raising a glass to the occasion!
Image credit: David Gilmour
Wish You Were Here 50 is currently available on all formats, and we’ve got you covered on all the details. Click here to see full information and ordering options for every edition.