Pink Floyd Scores A Top 10 Sales Hit Thanks To The Eclipse

Pink Floyd already ranks as one of the bestselling rock bands of all time. They don’t need help from anyone—or any special event—to sell music, but the right occasion certainly couldn’t hurt, either.

The English rockers appear inside the top 10 on the U.S. iTunes chart at the moment with a song that’s very timely. “Eclipse” by the band bolted from the lowest reaches of the ranking of the bestselling tracks in America on this one platform into the highest tier, clearly thanks to the eclipse that’s taken the country by storm.

At the time of writing, “Eclipse” sits at No. 8 on the U.S. iTunes chart. The decades-old tune is beating out plenty of contemporary hits, such as Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson’s “Save Me” (No. 16), Pitbull and Dolly Parton’s “Powerful Women” (No. 10), and even Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which is set to experience a huge gain on the Billboard charts when they refresh tomorrow. That single will shoot to No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales ranking and No. 2 on the Hot 100 (after previously topping that tally).

“Eclipse” is featured on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album. That project is one of the most successful ever in America, and it regularly returns to a number of rankings.

Dark Side of the Moon currently holds the record for the most weeks spent on the Billboard 200, Billboard’s ranking of the most-consumed albums in the country. So far, the title has racked up 988 frames somewhere on the tally. That’s more than 150 weeks longer than its closest competitor, Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Legend, which has yet to reach 850 turns on the list.

“Eclipse” was not a hit when it was first released in 1973. The song wasn’t spun off as a single, so it didn’t reach the Billboard charts at the time. The cut did appear on the Rock Digital Song Sales ranking in 2017, around another solar event. That year, it peaked at No. 24 on the list of the bestselling rock tunes in the country.

If even a thousand Americans buy the tune today and in the coming few days, it could stand a chance at hitting a number of Billboard charts next week. The tune already stands a good shot at returning to the Rock Digital Song Sales ranking, based on its performance today. If it holds on and continues to sell well, it might debut on the all-genre Digital Song Sales tally as well.