LONDON (Reuters) – Singer Adele and boyband The Wanted held their positions at the top of the British album and singles charts on Sunday, a day after the music world began mourning the death of soul singer Amy Winehouse.
Sales of the late 27-year-old singer's recordings rocketed in the hours after news spread of her death at her home in north London on Saturday.
The Official Charts Company said sales of Winehouse's albums had increased by 37 times in the few hours remaining in the period monitored for the weekly ranking. Track sales were up 23 times.
That was enough to propel her Grammy-winning 2006 release "Back to Black" to No. 59 in the album charts and to push the album's title track to 81 in the singles chart.
There was no change in the top five positions in the singles charts, with the Wanted's "Glad You Came" at No. 1 for a second week.
It was much the same in the album charts, where Adele remained at No. 1 and No. 3 with her releases "21" and "19," while Beyonce stayed in second place with her fourth studio album "4."
(Reporting by Tim Castle)
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