All Five One Direction Albums Return To The UK’s Top 40, Following Liam Payne’s Death

One week after the death of band member Liam Payne, all five of One Direction’s albums have returned to high positions in the UK music chart, along with the singer’s solo album. 

The BBC reports that Midnight Memories, the band’s third album, holds the highest position at number 13, with a reported sales increase of 517% week-on-week, according to the Official Charts Company. Three of the band’s singles have also re-entered the chart. 

Payne died on October 16 following a fall from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fans have continued to gather around the hotel, mourning their pop idol with candles, poems and flowers. A vigil was held there last weekend.

All four remaining band members – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson – paid personal tribute to their late bandmate, along with their former manager Simon Cowell and Payne’s former partner, singer Cheryl Tweedy. Malik also postponed his tour dates in light of the tragedy. 

Earlier this week, results of the post-mortem into Payne’s death were published, stating he had died of multiple trailers and “internal and external haemorrhage.”

The BBC reports that his father Geoff is still in Buenos Aires, where he is finishing the necessary administration to bring his son home to the UK. Geoff arrived in the capital last Friday where he visited the morgue, and also the hotel where Payne died. On his way out he stopped to look at the many tributes to his son and spoke to fans gathered there. 

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