Pink Floyd have joined TikTok

Virgin Radio

31 May 2022, 07:54

Iconic rock band Pink Floyd have signed up to social media platform TikTok, meaning that users will be able to access official sounds from each track featured across their 15 studio albums. 

The Pink Floyd catalogue launched globally yesterday (30th May), allowing fans to have access to a comprehensive library of official Pink Floyd music for their own TikTok video creations.  

TikTokers will be able to utilise audio clips from bangers such as See Emily Play, Money, Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, High Hopes, and Another Brick in the Wall (Part II).

Pink Floyd’s presence on the platform won’t just be in the Sound Library. Rather, the band are planning to regularly post unique video content. 

Pink Floyd’s arrival on TikTok coincided with an important moment in the band's timeline, as the 30th May 2022 marked 50 years to the day since they first entered the studio to start recording their seminal album, The Dark Side Of The Moon.

Last month, Pink Floyd released new original material for the first time since the 1990s in support of the people of Ukraine. New song, Hey Hey Rise Up, represented the first new original music that they recorded together as a band since their 1994 album The Division Bell. 

The track saw David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt, and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards. It also featured a vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox. 

All proceeds from the song are going to Ukraine Humanitarian Relief.

If you want to see what Pink Floyd get up to on TikTok, you can follow them here.