{"id":5870,"date":"2014-11-26T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2014-11-26T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:22:20","slug":"billboard-the-endless-river-debuts-at-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2014\/11\/billboard-the-endless-river-debuts-at-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard: The Endless River debuts at #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/files\/media\/bb_pinkfloyd2-1000.jpg\"><\/a>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s new album &#8220;The Endless River,&#8221; released Nov. 10, has debuted on the <strong>Billboard<\/strong> 200 album chart at #3.<\/p>\n<p>The album was bested only by <strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong>&#8216; debut of &#8220;Sonic Highway&#8221; at #2, and <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>&#8216;s third week at #1 for her album &#8220;1989.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;The Endless River&#8221; climbs to #1, it&#8217;ll be Floyd&#8217;s fifth #1 album, following &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; (1973), &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; (1975), &#8220;The Wall&#8221; (1979) and &#8220;The Division Bell&#8221; (1994).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Endless River&#8221; debuted on the U.K. charts at the #1 position last week.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard has created an infographic showing Floyd&#8217;s chart activity over the years. The band&#8217;s only studio album that failed to chart on Billboard was &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; (1968).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/files\/media\/bb_pinkfloyd2-1000.jpg\">View the infographic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd&#8216;s new album &#8220;The Endless River,&#8221; released Nov. 10, has debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at #3. The album was bested only by Foo Fighters&#8216; debut of &#8220;Sonic Highway&#8221; at #2, and Taylor Swift&#8216;s third week at #1 for her album &#8220;1989.&#8221; If &#8220;The Endless River&#8221; climbs to #1, it&#8217;ll be Floyd&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}