Buzzing: Cilla Black lands No. 1 album

Nicholas Tse. PHOTO: APPLE DAILY PUBLICATION

Cilla Black lands No. 1 album

British singer Cilla Black landed her first ever No. 1 album, a day after her star-studded funeral last Thursday, the BBC reported.

Her 2013 The Very Best Of... compilation beat albums by singer-songwriter James Bay and rockers Bullet For My Valentine to top the British album chart.

It re-entered the charts last September following the broadcast of a TV drama of her life. Stars including Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Andrew Lloyd Webber had attended her funeral in her native Liverpool. She died aged 72 on Aug 1 after hitting her head in a fall at her villa in Spain.


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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 24, 2015, with the headline Buzzing: Cilla Black lands No. 1 album. Subscribe