Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd is a compilation album by Pink Floyd. It was released by EMI Records on 5 November 2001, in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States through Capitol Records. It debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on 24 November 2001, at number 2 with sales of 214,650 copies. It remained on the chart for 26 weeks. The album was certified Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum on 6 December 2001, in the U.S. by ... more

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  • Nov 2001

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  • 2 h 35 min 15 s

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Los Angeles and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its...

EMI

The EMI Group (Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.) is a British music company. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the...

EMI Records

EMI Records is a record label, founded by EMI in 1972 as the successor to the Columbia label. The global success that EMI enjoyed with pop music in the 1960s...

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