As mentioned earlier this week, Jim Croce’s ‘Time in a Bottle’ was the third posthumous #1 hit, released in late 1973 a couple of months after the singer-songwriter’s plane crash death.

The fourth posthumous #1 belongs to John Lennon. ‘(Just Like) Starting Over,’ the lead single of his Double Fantasy album, made it to #3 the week before his shooting death on December 8, 1980. By the end of December it was in the top spot, where it remained for five weeks, giving Lennon his top-performing solo single.

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