Eddie Money, The Cars Classics Hit Hot Rock Songs Chart After Legends' Deaths

The Cars, meanwhile, bow highest with their 1984 top five Hot 100 hit "Drive" (sung by bassist Benjamin Orr, who died in 2000), at No. 6, up 1,526% to 7,000 sold. Their other entries: "Just What I Needed" (No. 9) and "My Best Friend's Girl" (No. 21).

The Cars' The Complete Greatest Hits begins at No. 6 on Top Rock Albums, with 16,000 equivalent album units earned (including 5,000 in album sales), up 492%. Money's The Best of Eddie Money follows at No. 8 with 12,000 units (3,000 in sales), up 830%.

Money died Sept. 13 at age 70 of complications from esophageal cancer. Ocasek passed Sept. 15 at 75 from natural causes.