Pink Floyd’s archival live album Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII debuts in the top 10 across multiple Billboard charts (dated May 17), following its release on May 2, including a No. 3 arrival on Top Album Sales with the band’s biggest sales week in over a decade.
The digitally remastered and remixed set is the audio companion the concert film of the same name, which was originally recorded in 1971, and garnered a limited theatrical release in April 2025 after it was digitally remastered. A version of the film was first briefly released in 1972, and has been issued a number of times since then. However, the audio from the film has never been issued as a stand-alone album until now.
In total, it sold just over 20,000 copies in the United States in the week ending May 8, according to Luminate. The album contains the eight performances from the film and was available to purchase as a two-CD set and a double-vinyl package or as a digital download. The CD and vinyl editions have two bonus tracks, while the digital edition has a third bonus cut. (The film itself, separate from the album, was also sold as stand-alone Blu-ray, DVD and digital download.)
The Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII album also debuts at No. 1 on Indie Store Album Sales, No. 2 on Vinyl Albums (with 12,500 copies sold in its first week), No. 2 on Top Rock Albums, No. 3 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and No. 28 on the overall all-genre Billboard 200. On the latter, Pompeii marks the 15th top 40-charting set for the band and 30th charting album overall.
With the No. 3 debut on Top Album Sales with 20,000 copies, Pink Floyd captures its largest sales week for an album in over 10 years. The act last sold more copies of a single album on the Jan. 10, 2015-dated chart, when the band’s final studio album, The Endless River, sold 29,000 copies in its seventh week of release.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
It’s a busy week in the top 10 on Top Album Sales, as the Pompeii project is one of six debuts in the region. At the top of the list, Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos reenters at No. 1, for its first week in the lead, following its vinyl release. Fuerza Regida’s 111XPANTIA bows at No. 2, while Eric Church’s Evangeline Vs. The Machine motors in at No. 4. Ghost’s Skeletá falls to No. 5 after its debut at No. 1 a week ago, while Josh Groban’s first U.S.-released hits retrospective Gems jumps in at No. 6. Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX descends 5-7, Car Seat Headrest’s The Scholars starts at No. 8 and Key Glock’s Glockaveli bows at No. 9. Sabrina Carpenter’s former leader Short n’ Sweet rounds out the top 10, falling 9-10.
