You'll Never Walk Alone and Locked Up top chart of popular quarantine music

Listeners are flocking to hear tracks such as Don’t Stand So Close to Me and Everybody Hurts as the coronavirus crisis deepens

You’ll Never Walk Alone, as performed by Gerry and the Pacemakers, has topped a chart of songs experiencing a surge in popularity as UK listeners look to music for comfort and reflection during the coronavirus lockdown.

The Official Charts Company, which compiles the UK Top 40, analysed tracks that were more than five years old, and ranked those with the biggest percentage uplift, excluding anomalies such as the surge of listeners to the music of Kenny Rogers, who died last week.