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Band Killed In Sweden Car Crash Have Posthumous No. 1 Album
Indie band Viola Beach has topped the U.K. album chart, almost six months after all the group’s members were killed in a car accident in Sweden.
The Official Charts Company said Friday that the group’s self-titled debut album was the week’s best-seller.
The four members of the band from northwest England died along with their manager when their car plunged into a canal outside Stockholm in February.
The musicians’ families thanked fans for ensuring that “what they will be remembered for, forever, is the music they were so passionate about making together.”
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Martin Talbot, chief executive of the chart-compiling company, said “it is hard to think of an album which more people were rooting for than the Viola Beach release – nor a success which has felt so bittersweet.”