Pink Floyd Albums Pulled From Digital Retailers
Many of veteran rock band Pink Floyd’s classic albums have been pulled from digital retailers, after a distribution contract with EMI expired on June 30, Billboard reported.
The takedown affects albums including “The Wall” and “Animals,” but not earlier material — “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” through “Dark Side of the Moon” are still available, as are CD versions of the later albums.
Sources told Billboard the band’s management has been seeking a new distribution deal, but asking prices were too high.
Billboard notes that EMI has sold nearly 1.5 million copies of “The Wall” in the U.S. since 2000, when it took over distribution, 107,000 of which were digital downloads.
During the two months preceding the expiration of EMI’s deal on June 30, 41% of sales of that album were in digital format.
Separately, the band has been embroiled in litigation in the U.K. over the unbundling of its albums for digital single sales, with the High Court there ruling in March that EMI could not sell individual tracks from the band.
Source: Billboard
