List of posthumous number ones on the UK singles chart
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List of posthumous number ones on the UK singles chart
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The death of a popular musician, and likewise, the use of a dead musician's work in advertising, often causes a sharp increase in sales of the musician's recordings and associated products; this has led to a number of posthumous number one singles in the UK and elsewhere. The phenomenon, a topic of discussion in both the media and academia, has occurred 20 times in the UK since 1959. The UK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled on behalf of the British record industry based on sales of single
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