Viola Beach are set to make their Official Chart Top 40 debut after the tragic death of the British band

The song is expected to climb the chart this week as fans pay tribute to the up and coming band.
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Viola Beach are on course to enter this week’s Official Chart Top 40 as fans pay tribute to the up and coming band who were tragically killed in a car crash over the weekend.

The four-piece enter at Number 39 with their track Swings & Waterslides on today’s Official Chart Update – just one day after the sad news broke. The song is expected to continue to climb up this week’s chart as public support and fan-lead campaigns continue to grow.

Viola Beach, who hailed from Warrington and comprised of Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin, were killed along with their manager Craig Tarry in a car crash in Stockholm on Sunday morning while on tour. The group's record label Communion have confirmed that money made from the sale of singles will go to the families of the band and its manager.

MORE: Check out this week's Official Top 100 Singles Chart Update in full

Elsewhere on this week’s Official Chart Update, Danish band Lukas Graham are set to continue their reign at Number 1 for a second week with 7 Years, and Zayn Malik’s Pillowtalk holds at 2.

The rest of the Top 5 remains unchanged: Jonas Blue & Dakota’s Fast Car at 3, Rihanna’s Work at 4 and Shawn Mendes’ Stitches at 5.

New entries and high climbers

Swedish star Zara Larsson looks set to crack the Top 10 with Lush Life, climbing seven spots to Number 9, Twenty One Pilots’ Stressed Out leaps from 34 to Number 22, and Sia’s Cheap Thrills is on course to make its Top 40 debut thanks to a new version of the song released last week featuring Sean Paul.

Check out this week's Official Top 100 Singles Chart Update in full

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Suzanne Smith

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This shows how popular they were from when they first recorded the track last November

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Michelle Burdett

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I can honestly say "3POP" that you're a kn*bpop. Viola Beach deserve to be in the top 10 because they and their Manager have immense talent, are incredibly hardworking and were set to be there in the near future anyway. Can you write, record, produce and sell your own music for us to have a listen to please? I'd love to hear your musical talent; it must clearly be in that area as your comments online are complete and utter garbage.

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SDMommyie

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gutted. awful. With technology we COULD have less accidents and more automatic driving pods. Its sad....young talented.....beautiful young men. I'm sick.
http://www.techinsider.io/italys-next-created-self-driving-pods-that-can-connect-in-motion-to-form-a-train-2015-10

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de Sascha

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It's so sad what happened to Viola Beach.
Hope they get at least a Top 10 Hit, or higher to #1!
So sad.

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simon_g42

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Just as a correction, Viola Beach's accident happened on Saturday morning, not Sunday.

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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This definitely looks to be a week in the charts. The top 5 remaining unchanged? It was rubbish last week. Some band nobody even knows entering the charts for the first time just because they died? No, just no.

And before you say I'm being a mean/heartless b@stud, I really don't think a band should get recognition just because of an accident causing them to die. Did Motorhead deserve to re-renter because Lemmy died? Yes. Did Bowie deserve to re-renter because he died? Yes. Do this unknown band deserve to be in because they died? No.

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Tony Bianchi

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Did Joy Division deserve to chart "just because Ian Curtis died"? Same thing. (Yes, they had a cult following but the masses didn't know them before Love Will Tear Us Apart). The simple fact is people are hearing them for the first time. You can't help being moved by the plight of a young band barely a year-old being killed in one swoop. I don't see them being musically amazing myself but that's what social media and instant downloading do for your music in such circumstances. Love Will Tear Us Apart may have been even bigger than it was if we had Twitter and iTunes back then.

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simon_g42

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The Viola Beach song is very good. It's tragic that it has taken the weekend's awful news for people to hear the song, but the recognition is deserved on merit. Its success highlights the fact that there is some good music out there that doesn't get much radio airplay and, consequently, struggles to get in the charts.

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Simeon Davenport

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If Viola Beach don't deserve to re-enter because they died, why should Motorhead and David Bowie?

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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Because they are music legends, unlike this unknown band.

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Simeon Davenport

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Yeah "music legends," another generic idiotic word nostalgic parents use to describe music from their childhood. Tell me, what defines an artist to be a "legend?" That's right! Nothing! It's just an idiotic word nostalgic parents like to use to gripe on and on about how amazing music of their childhood was without consideration their opinion does not define anyone else's and without consideration that there are far more important things in life they should be worried about, like doing their taxes or cleaning the house. Every time I see someone use the words "real music," "true music," "legit music," "legends," "artists with 'talent'" or something like that, it makes me want to trip the hair off my head.

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Idrees Saleem

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Realest I've heard

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simon_g42

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So, by your logic, the band should have been consigned to history last weekend. Similarly, Van Gogh should have been written of as a failure when he died, as only one of his paintings had been sold.

There is a long list of songs which flopped when they were first released, only to become hits later. In many of those cases, they got little or no airplay first time round so very few people heard the song. I wish I'd heard Viola Beach before last weekend. Now that I have heard them, I like their music. What's wrong with that?

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I Am A Stegosaurus

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I've not even heard that song that was set to enter yet, but I can't be bothered to search it. I'll just wait until the end of the week when I watch the charts to see if it's REALLY that good because I'm getting the impression people only like it just because of the band's death. Just like what happened wit hSee You Again.

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ahuman

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Even if you think they don't deserve it, I believe that getting them into the charts is a way for those who knew them to honour them and possibly a way to grieve. I went to school with the front man and though I didn't know him particularly well it's upsetting that such a tragic accident happened and has affected many people I also know such as his family and friends. They were just starting out and they were really going places from all the amazing gigs they've played. Let them and their loved ones have this moment.

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Mike Lutionaire

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Someone doesn't like Indie... , I get what you're saying but... listen, No-one cares. This band deserve what little recognition they have now in the wake of their death, even if it is for a little while, just as ahuman said, it will be a way for many people who knew them to grieve, They're not going to be making any more music now are they? so let them have their time, and stop whining about it. it's better than most that's in the charts these days.