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Chart Update

November 14, 2009 | Music

Elvis Presley releases still chart around the world; various CD and DVD titles are listed - even close to the #1 spot - in the US, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Ireland.

Australia

Music DVD Top 40:

  • # 38 Elvis: The King OF Rock And Roll (from #30)

Top 50 Catalogue Albums:

  • #30 ELV1S 30 #1 Hits

United States:

Top Holiday Albums:
  • # 36 Elvis’ Christmas
  • # 39 Christmas Duets
Canada:
Top 100 Albums: 
  • #37 Christmas Duets 
Top 50 Country Albums: 
  • #24 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits
Sweden:
Top 60 Albums: 
  • #52 The Collection (7CD) 
Top 60 Singles: 
  • #55 In The Ghetto
Norway:
Top DVDs: 
  • #2 30th Anniversary DVD Collection
Hungary:
Top DVDs: 
  • #17 Elvis: The Journey

Ireland: 

Top 100 Albums:

    • #90 Rockin' With The King

Sound Scan Update

Additionally, here’s a couple of "up to date" soundscan figures (US sales):
  • Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits 4,547,212 
  • Elvis' Christmas 360,031
  • Christmas Duets 351,501 
  • Essential Elvis 280,809

Chart changes

Reuters reported several changes to come to the Billboard chart.

Good news for fans of Michael Jackson, the Beatles and other veteran artists.

The compilers of the Billboard 200, the benchmark pop albums chart in the United States, said on Wednesday they would dramatically overhaul the listing later this month to include catalog recordings as well as current releases.

The Billboard 200 generally lists only albums released in the past 18 months, and accordingly failed to reflect two of the biggest events in the music world this year: Jackson’s death and the reissue of the Beatles catalog.

Fans scooped up millions of copies of both artists’ albums, but an 18-year-old policy at trade publication Billboard meant that the stampede was marked in its relatively obscure Top Comprehensive Albums chart, which combines both current and catalog releases.

The comprehensive chart essentially becomes the new Billboard 200. The change takes effect for the week ended November 22. Sales data, collected by tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan, are published on Wednesdays.

If last week’s Billboard 200 were based on overall sales, 35 catalog titles would storm the chart, led by Jackson’s “Number Ones” at No. 13, Billboard said.

The 2003 compilation was the top album in the United States for six weeks in the wake of his June 25 death, and Jackson is the second-biggest selling artist of the year, just behind country star Taylor Swift.

The first new-look Billboard 200 could include up to seven of Jackson’s solo catalog titles, as well as a pair from the Jackson 5, depending on overall sales.

The Beatles reissued their digitally remastered catalog in September. First-week sales would have sent five of the group’s albums into the top 10 of the Billboard 200, led by “Abbey Road” at No. 3. The new chart could also include up to seven Beatles albums.

Greatest-hits albums by the likes of Bob Marley, Journey, Guns N’ Roses and Creedence Clearwater Revival could also make the cut.

“The events of 2009 and the continuing creativity in the repackaging of catalog titles have led us to conclude that the Billboard 200 would be best served presenting the true best-sellers in the country, without any catalog-related rules or stipulations, to our readers, the media and music fans,” said Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard’s director of charts.
Source:Various
moodyblue1 wrote on November 14, 2009
awesome news
jean michel wrote on November 14, 2009
if i am not mistaken , the Essential Elvis is a 2 CD set . If the 280,809 figure corresponds to units sold of a 2 CD set , the set should consequently be awarded a gold award for + 500000 cds sold.
Jesse Garon Presley wrote on November 15, 2009
awesome news?? for who?, i don't see them mention Elvis once,Elvis should be also in this list
moodyblue1 wrote on November 15, 2009
I posted my comment before the added CHART CHANGE,It is awesome news with Elvis on the Charts it self this week.
GEORGE (GK) wrote on November 16, 2009
About time! Back in the day, Billboard, charted sales, and airplay, regardless if it was a reissue of a classic album, etc. Sales are sales.