But Pink Floyd themselves apparently liked it and the new version was championed by dance DJs and reached number 10 in the singles chart, showing their pop potential.
One Direction's number one follows their successful debut in the singles chart with What Makes You Beautiful last month, which went to number 28 in the Hot 100.
Irish group Westlife stayed put at number two in the singles chart with You Raise Me Up and their Face To Face dropped to three in the album chart.
In the singles chart, 43 out of the top 200 singles featured the singer, with Jackson hits accounting for all but one of the new entries in the top 40.
And urban artists have dominated the charts, with hip-hop duo OutKast recently spending two months at numbers one and two in the singles chart and on top of the albums chart.
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Baauer's Harlem Shake - the song behind the latest internet dance craze - fell from three to eight in the singles chart, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop dropped from two to four.
Emeli Sande, who picked up three Mobos at the weekend, slipped back into second place in the singles chart with Beneath Your Beautiful, while Adele's James Bond theme tune Skyfall made the top five.
The Witch Is Dead, which was at the centre of an online campaign by opponents of Baroness Thatcher, dropped out of the top 40 to number 65 in the singles chart after it entered at number two last week.
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Elsewhere in the official singles chart Brit award-winner Emeli Sande's Read All About It Part 3 is this week's highest climber.
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The film also scooped a nomination for its theme song, sung by Adele, which went to number two in the UK singles chart in October.
Earlier this month the group became the highest charting UK boy band in the US singles chart after they reached number five with Glad You Came.
But the group split last year, and the sisters - recording under the name Appleton - are currently at number two in the UK singles chart with Fantasy, their first post-All Saints offering.
In the rest of the singles chart, My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas came in at number three while Girl Aloud's new track Biology went in at number four.
While Skyfall missed out on a number one in the official UK singles chart, the track topped the iTunes chart within 10 hours of being released on 5 October 2012.
In 2002, the 50th anniversary of the UK singles chart, 76 singles had sold in excess of one million copies.
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The last artist to secure the official charts double was Rihanna, who held the top spot on both the singles and albums chart in November last year with We Found Love and Talk That Talk.
But the fact he could still not reach the top spot highlights the dominance of downloads in today's UK singles chart.
There have been more than 1, 200 number one singles since the first chart was published in the NME six decades ago.
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The singles chart has been a weekly fixture in the UK since 1952, when Al Martino claimed the first number one with Here In My Heart.
In the UK, this could have a rather strange effect on the singles chart - which recently began accepting any downloaded track into the Top 40.
The re-released song - proceeds from which are being donated to the ChildLine charity - drops to sixth place in this week's singles chart.
Pops was well into his 60s when, in May 1964, he displaced the Beatles from the top of the Billboard singles chart, a spot they had owned for more than three months.
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Several deleted singles also returned to the chart on Sunday, with Snow Patrol re-appearing in the top 10 nine weeks after their single disappeared from the charts.
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Osbourne, who is currently at number 18 in this week's singles chart with her second single Shut Up, was "upset" about the decision, her spokeswoman added.
They enjoyed a string of hits in the 1980s, starting with their 1986 number one West End Girls, and including their other chart-topping singles It's A Sin, Heart and Always On My Mind.
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