Foo Fighters enter midweek Official Albums Chart Top 5 following death of drummer Taylor Hawkins
officialcharts.comAfter the sad news over the weekend that Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for Foo Fighters, has died aged 50, the iconic rock band re-enter the midweek Official Albums Chart Top 5 with their Greatest Hits collection.
Following an influx of sales and streams, their Greatest Hits compilation is currently riding at Number 4 midweek and is the UK’s second most-streamed album of the week so far.
Foo Fighters’ 2006 live LP Skin and Bones is also on course to re-enter the Top 40 this week at Number 36. Foo Fighters have enjoyed huge chart success in the UK across their career with five Number 1 albums and four Top 10 singles to date.
Taylor Hawkins joined as a member of Foo Fighters in 1997, and recorded eight studio albums with them before his death. Before this, he was best known as a touring drummer, who worked with Alanis Morrissette around the release of her landmark Jagged Little Pill.
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