Cilla Black has posthumously gone to number one on the UK Album Chart this week.
The British TV personality passed away earlier this month, and the news has seen a steady increase in sales for her best of collection, culminating in reaching the top yesterday.
Elsewhere, Bullet For My Valentine are new at #3 with ‘Venom‘, and Florence & The Machine have climbed from last week, as have Mumford & Sons with ‘Wilder Mind‘.
UK Album Chart, Top 20:
1/ Cilla Black – ‘The Very Best Of’
2/ James Bay – ‘The Chaos and The Calm’
3/ (new) Bullet For My Valentine – ‘Venom’
4/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
5/ Dr. Dre – ‘Compton’
6/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
7/ Years & Years – ‘Communion’
8/ Neck Deep – ‘Life’s Not Out To Get You’
9/ Taylor Swift – ‘1989’
10/ Florence & The Machine – ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’
11/ Frank Turner – ‘Positive Songs For Negative People’
12/ Meghan Trainor – ‘Title’
13/ George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
14/ (new) Vintage Trouble – ‘1 Hopeful Rd’
15/ Mumford & Sons – ‘Wilder Mind’
16/ The Maccabees – ‘Marks To Prove It’
17/ The Shires – ‘Brave’
18/ (new) Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – ‘Blossom’
19/ Hozier – ‘Hozier’
20/ Lianne La Havas – ‘Blood’