Winehouse remembered a year after death

LONDON — Amy Winehouse's tracks have sold 1.7 million copies in Britain alone since she died from alcohol poisoning, the Official Charts Company said, as fans and her family Monday marked a year since her death at the age of 27.




Fans have bought 1.2 million copies of her albums and 500,000 copies of her singles over the past year, helping to make the singer-songwriter -- famed for her powerful deep voice -- one of Britain's top-selling modern recording artists.



Winehouse, a troubled personality who had struggled with drug addiction, was found dead from alcohol poisoning in her home in north London on July 23, 2011.



Fans left tributes outside her former home in north London on Monday, with cards, pictures and flowers piling up.



"Remembering Amy Winehouse for the insanely talented, funny and heartbreaking person she was," tweeted Australian singer Sam Sparro.



Winehouse's posthumously issued third album Lioness: Hidden Treasures reached number one after its release in December, selling 194,000 copies in its first week, but her second album Back to Black remains her most popular.



Music stations including MTV and BBC Radio 1 played special sets of her tracks on Monday, and the BBC was set to broadcast a previously unseen 2006 interview with the star.



Winehouse's family said they would mark the anniversary of her death together and were still "struggling to come to terms" with her loss.



"To mark the event, the family will be spending the day together, remembering a daughter and sister that meant the world to them," they said in a statement on her website.


"Whilst the world remembers a gifted artist who was taken from us all at a ridiculously young age, we will be thinking of a person who gave so much, and in turn was given so much, by a family still struggling to come to terms with the fact that, where there should be four, there is only three."



The family, which includes Winehouse's father, mother and older brother, thanked fans for their sympathy and support over the past year, adding that they hoped "we have been able to contribute to a positive legacy in Amy's name".



Her father Mitch Winehouse set up the The Amy Winehouse Foundation along with other family members last September, aiming to support young people in need.



He has also published a book, "Amy, My Daughter