David Gilmour celebrates Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ landing UK’s record-breaking Christmas Number One album

David Gilmour has celebrated Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ landing the Christmas Number One album spot.

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The classic record has been reissued with new digital and physical editions for its 50th anniversary, and on Friday (December 19), it was announced that it had topped the Official Albums Chart for Christmas.

The record did not top the charts on its original release in 1975, and its success means that Pink Floyd are now the artist with the longest span between their first and last Number One albums, clocking in at 2,620 weeks, or over 50 years.

“Raising a glass to the wonderful news that Wish You Were Here is the UK’s Christmas Number 1 album,” Gilmour wrote on Instagram on Friday.

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It is Pink Floyd’s second Number One album of the year, following on from ‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII‘, the live album of a 1971 show that was released as a concert film in 1972 and re-released with newly mixed audio earlier this year.

While it is the band’s first Christmas Number One album, they did land the coveted Number One single in 1979 with ‘Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2’.

‘Wish You Were Here’ tops the chart ahead of the latest albums from Olivia Dean, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and Sam Fender, as well as Michael Bublé’s ‘Christmas’ record.

The Top 10 on the Official Albums Chart for Christmas 2025: 

1. Pink Floyd – ‘Wish You Were Here’ 
2. Olivia Dean – ‘The Art Of Loving’ 
3. Taylor Swift – ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ 
4. Michael Bublé – ‘Christmas’ 
5. Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Man’s Best Friend’ 
6. Sam Fender – ‘People Watching’ 
7. Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’ 
8. The Weeknd – ‘The Highlights’ 
9. Fleetwood Mac – ‘50 Years – Don’t Stop’ 
10. Oasis – ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ 

To mark the re-release of ‘Wish You Were Here’, Pink Floyd have launched a series of pop-up stores across the UK, Europe and the US, where they are also selling an exclusive edition of the Brain Damage fanzine.

Over on the singles chart, Kylie Minogue bagged her first ever Christmas Number One with ‘XMAS’, making her the first female solo artist to top the chart in four different decades. She successfully held off the challenge of festive perennials Wham! and Mariah Carey, and scored the eighth Number One single of her career.

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