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

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.

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.

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

Because they are music legends, unlike this unknown band.

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.

Realest I've heard

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?

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.

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.

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.