Aaliyah, a respected 22 year old R & B singer and actress, died on August 25 2001 in a plane crash.
Her single “More Than a Woman” was knocked off the Number 1 spot in the UK singles charts by George Harrisons “My Sweet Lord” who died of cancer in 2001.
This is the only time in, UK chart history that, posthumously, one artist has taken over the number one spot from another.