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Wednesday Chart Updates - Gold For Elvis

August 29, 2007 | Music
Elvis has five albums in the Australian Top 100 albums chart again. Elvis has had five albums in the top 100 in August - Sept 1997, when he had the five on the chart for three weeks in a row. In total 70,000 units of the Elvis Catalogue have been sold in Australia in the last 8 weeks.

# 4 Elvis The King but reached Gold status
#63 Viva Las Vegas
#77 Elvis Live
#85 ELV1S 30 #1 Hits
#95 Elvis At The Movies (from climbs 3)

The "Early Elvis"compilation dropped out of the chart this week. "Elvis Rock" is just outside the top 100 and could enter the top 100 next week.

Here are the new Swiss music charts:

Albums chart:
#3 "The King" up from #12 last week
#15 "The Essential Elvis Presley" up from #21 last week
#37 "Elvis - Viva Las vegas" up from #57 last week

Singles chart:
#27 "In the Ghetto" (new entry)
#39 "Always on my mind" (new entry)
#42 "Suspicious minds" (new entry)

Worldwide recap of Elvis' worldwide chart success:

#1
Sweden (The Essential)
France (The Essential)
Germany (The King)
UK (The King)
The Netherlands (The Dutch Collection)
Quebec (Introducing Elvis)
Austria (The King)

#2
Canada (Introducing Elvis)
New Zealand (The King)

#3
Belgium (The Essential)
Ireland (The King)
Switzerland (The King)

#4
Belgium (The Essential)
Australia (The King)

#11
Finland (The Essential)
Spain (The King)

#15
Switzerland (The Essential Elvis Presley)

#37
Switzerland (Elvis - Viva Las vegas)

#40
Denmark (The Essential)
Source:Various
Ken in Tasmania wrote on August 29, 2007
A Slap on the back for us Aussies we Love Elvis down under........many CD's and DVD's in all the major retail chains with excellent prices are being snapped up.....Especially in Tassie.
jean michel wrote on August 29, 2007
for the week ending august 25 ; the Essential Elvis is still # 1 in the french compilation chart .
Joe Carr wrote on August 29, 2007
Awesome job Australian fans!