Official Irish Charts history was made this past week when a posthumous Number 1 album replaced another at the top of the Official Irish Albums Chart.
Last Friday, Juice WRLD’s third studio album Legends Never Die topped the charts, replacing Pop Smoke’s debut studio album Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon, marking the first time a deceased artist has succeeded another in the following week.
Pop Smoke also made history as the first artist to have a posthumous debut album in Ireland. In total, 13 albums have reached Number 1 in Ireland following an artist’s death.
2016 produced two in David Bowie’s Blackstar and Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker. Blackstar went to Number 1 five days following Bowie’s death and was the first posthumous
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