Pink Floyd’s The Endless River has been streaming towards a top position into the album charts and the end of past week met with their reaching the final destination. Although still subjugated by the controversies surrounding the band’s status (Roger Waters VS David Gilmour and Roger Waters VS Pink Floyd), their latest and last release made it to the top! And in a quite fast-paced manner!
The Endless River was released on 10 November 2014 and on 16 November, The Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart, a BBC ranking, chose Pink Floyd’s latest and last album as the number one position. According to The Independent, shortly after the release of the album (only after one week) were sold over 139,000 copies. These figures turned Pink Floyd’s instrumental album into ‘’the third fastest-selling artist album of the year’’, followed by Coldplay (with Ghost Stories) and Ed Sheeran (X album).
The second position of the album chart is taken by Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways (both album and TV Series). Dave Grohl, front-man of the rock band, confessed in latest interviews that he did not outrage at the thought that they rank as second, with the masters of psychedelic as top artists: “No! I mean if we’re going to take a No. 2 to anybody, I’ll take it to Pink Floyd you know what I mean?’’. Both albums were released on 10 November, which marks the first two positions of the chart with new releases. The third place was taken by the already mentioned Ed Sheeran, with X, the former leader. The chart indicates that album number three has been part of the classification for twenty-one weeks and is currently down two places.
The Endless River was created by the band from unreleased bits belonging to their The Division Bell album, revealed to the public twenty years ago, in 1994. The connection between the two releases is the very name of the album, which originates in the verses of a The Division Bell track. ‘’The endless river’’ is the last verse of ”High Hopes”, which is one of the most meaningful, touching and enthralling tracks of the band (ever!). The track actually ends in ‘’forever and ever’’, but that may be interpreted as the crowning of the song, the conclusion, the motto. What is more, ”High Hopes” is the last track on The Division Bell.
To conclude, ‘’The endless river’’ are the words belonging to the last verse of the last track on their last but one album, due to which Pink Floyd named their last – but first (in charts) – album The Endless River. And this rhyme will stream forever and ever…