Seventeen of the late rock singer’s albums now feature in the Top 100 albums, with his 25th and final release Blackstar debuting at No 1.
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The petition on Change.org has already gathered 18,000 supporters for Bowie to replace Adam Smith on the score after he died on Sunday following a secret 18-month battle with liver cancer.
According to the Official Charts Company, Blackstar notched almost 150,000 combined sales in its first week of release, becoming Bowie’s 10th #1 album in his home country.
And more than half a million Bowie records were picked up in the United Kingdom this week, including 241,000 albums and 167,000 singles and 19 million streams.
The star accounts for 25% of this week’s Top 40, with the best-sellers including greatest hits collections Nothing Has Changed and Best Of 1969/1974.
It was a similar story on the the iTunes chart where Bowie’s Blackstar shot to No 1, Best of Bowie was at No 3 and his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, was at No 8.
Produced by longtime collaborator Tony Visconti, “Scary Monsters” repositioned Bowie as a 1980s pop superstar.
David Blair, who created the petition, wrote: “David Bowie’s passing has seen an outpouring of grief not seen in a long time in the music world”. “And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way”. Previous record holder Adele attracted 36 million views when her “Hello” video premiered in October.
The shocking news of music icon David Bowie’s death has sent fans across the world scrambling to appreciate his music.
“In many respects you don’t need a memorial or service to remember David by… you have his music instead”.
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Fans are invited along all afternoon on Friday to “say goodbye to David Bowie in their own way” at the singer’s former haunt.
