Amy Winehouse back on charts after shock death
NEW YORK - Death has landed Amy Winehouse back on the charts.
The British singer's "Back to Black" album will re-enter the Billboard album chart at No. 9, with 37,000 albums sold in the United States in the past week. Those figures come from Nielsen SoundScan data released late Tuesday. Her debut album "Frank" sold 7,000 copies. All but a fraction of those sales were digital downloads.
"Back to Black" hadn't sold that many copies in three years.
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There were also 111,000 digital tracks of Winehouse's music sold over the past week — a 2,000 percent increase. The most downloaded Winehouse song? Her most famous one, "Rehab."
The troubled singer died on Saturday at the age of 27 after a long struggle with alcohol and drug abuse. An autopsy conducted on Monday could not determine a cause of death. Police said that further toxicology tests are needed and the results are expected in two to four weeks.
Crowds have gathered outside her north London home since her death to light candles and leave flowers and other tributes.
