All five One Direction albums re-enter chart as fans mourn Liam Payne's death

A week aft Liam Payne's decease successful Argentina, each 5 of One Direction's albums person returned to the UK charts.

The band's 3rd album, Midnight Memories, leads the field, re-entering the illustration astatine fig 13, with income and streams expanding 517% week-on-week, according to the Official Charts Company.

Three of One Direction's singles besides re-enter the Top 40, portion Payne's last solo single, Teardrops, made its illustration debut astatine fig 85.

The prima died connected 16 October astatine the property of 31 aft falling from a third-floor edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires. He is survived by his seven-year-old son, Bear, whom helium shares with ex-partner Cheryl.

In the days since his death, countless tributes person been paid by his family, friends and bandmates.

Niall Horan said helium was "absolutely devastated", calling Payne "the brightest [person] successful immoderate room". His woman Kate Cassidy said the vocalist would ever beryllium her "guardian angel" and revealed they had planned to marry.

In a statement, Payne's household said they were "heartbroken", adding: "Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, funny, and brave soul.”

Fans, who held vigils successful the star's representation past weekend, person besides responded by sending his euphony backmost into the charts.

Albums chart

• 13 - One Direction: Midnight Memories (2013)
• 21 - One Direction: Made successful the AM (2015)
• 22 - One Direction: Four (2014)
• 25 - One Direction: Take Me Home (2012)
• 38 - One Direction: Up All Night (2011)
• 62 - Liam Payne: LP1 (2019)

Singles chart

• 6 - One Direction: Night Changes
• 9 - One Direction: Story Of My Life
• 23 - One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful
• 41 - Liam Payne: Strip That Down (ft Quavo)
• 43 - Liam Payne: For You (ft Rita Ora)
• 85 - Liam Payne: Teardrops

Night Changes wasn't One Direction's biggest deed during their heyday - reaching fig 7 successful the UK and 31 successful the US - but it has grown successful estimation ever since.

In 2022, it became the archetypal One Direction opus to surpass 1 cardinal streams connected Spotify; and has remained their most-popular way connected streaming services ever since.

Released connected 12 November, 2014, arsenic the 2nd azygous from the medium Four, it is 1 of the band's astir mature and critically-acclaimed tracks.

The lyrics contemplate the fleeting quality of clip and the nonaccomplishment of innocence, acceptable against the backdrop of a emotion matter that's deed the rocks.

Harry Styles takes the pb vocal successful the chorus, singing: "We're lone gettin' older, babe / And I've been thinkin' astir it lately / Does it ever thrust you brainsick / Just however accelerated the nighttime changes?"

Its reflective, insignificant cardinal melancholy was embraced by fans aft the set went connected hiatus successful 2016.

It's casual to spot however the song's messages of impermanence and regret person been adapted to explicit the nonaccomplishment they've experienced implicit the past week.

On Wednesday, Argentinian constabulary raided the edifice wherever Payne was staying astatine the clip of his death.

A constabulary peculiar investigations seized items including machine hard drives and footage from edifice cameras, said a authorities official, speaking connected the information of anonymity.

Earlier successful the week, a post-mortem introspection said the vocalist had died of aggregate traumas and "internal and outer haemorrhage".

However, officials successful Argentina had to contradict releasing toxicology trial results, pursuing US media reports claiming the vocalist had a cocktail of amerciable drugs successful his strategy erstwhile helium died.

The singer's father, Geoff, is presently successful Buenos Aries, waiting for his son's assemblage to beryllium released and returned to the UK.

Meanwhile, Payne's erstwhile bandmate Zayn Malik has rescheduled his upcoming US circuit portion helium processes the "heartbreaking loss" of his One Direction co-star.

And erstwhile X Factor justice Nicole Scherzinger, who helped enactment the set unneurotic successful 2010, has said she volition "forever cherish and treasure" the times she spent with Payne.

"It was specified a blessing to get to enactment with you recently," she continued, in a station connected Instagram connected Friday. "We shared the aforesaid emotion and passionateness for euphony and I volition everlastingly retrieve the meaningful and joyful conversations we had."

Scherzinger had precocious completed filming a Netflix endowment amusement with Payne and Destiny's Child prima Kelly Rowland.

The destiny of the show, titled Building The Band, remains uncertain.