David Gilmour Celebrates Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Claiming UK’s Christmas No. 1 Album

On Friday (December 19), David Gilmour celebrated the news that the 50th anniversary reissue of Pink Floyd’s classic album, Wish You Were Here, scored the UK’s coveted Christmas No. 1 album. “Raising a glass to the wonderful news that Wish You Were Here is the UK’s Christmas Number 1 album,” Gilmour captioned his post, which features the 79-year-old rock icon drinking a pint in a pub. This marks the first time that Floyd has ever topped the UK album chart at Christmas, though the psych rockers previously scored a Christmas No. 1 single with “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2” in 1979. Wish You Were Here was originally released in 1975 without topping the charts, and this milestone makes Pink Floyd the artist with the longest span between their first and latest No. 1 albums, an interval that stretched over 50 years. This also marks the band’s second UK No. 1 album in 2025, following the earlier reissue of their live album, Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII. (NME)