Elvis Presley scores new chart record with 12th UK Number 1 album
Almost 40 years after his untimely passing, Elvis Presley has still got the charts – and the record books – all shook up.
If I Can Dream, a collection of Elvis classics featuring orchestral reworkings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, tops the Official Albums Chart this week, giving The King his 12th UK chart-topping album.
This means Elvis now has more Number 1 albums in the UK than any other male solo artist, and puts him level with Madonna in second place for the most chart-topping LPs*, behind the Beatles, who have 15.
Receiving the award on Elvis’s behalf, the star’s former wife Priscilla Presley told OfficialCharts.com: “This is an album that Elvis always really wanted to do and he would have been so pleased to know his fans are still there and they continue to love his music. The most talented team put this album together and helped us all realise an unfulfilled dream.”
Elvis claims the Number 1 spot with 79,000 chart sales, giving him one of the second-fastest selling albums of the year.
MORE: See the full Official Albums Chart Top 100 here (from 5.45pm)
Rod Stewart lands his 34th Top 10 album with Another Country, new at 2, while Elbow frontman Guy Garvey is new at Number 3 with his first solo release Courting The Squall.
Ed Sheeran’s x climbs back up three places to spend its 72nd week in the Top 10 at 4, and Jess Glynne advances a place to return to the Top 5 with I Cry When I Laugh.
New entries and high climbers
James Morrison lands his fourth Top 10 with comeback album Higher Than Here, new at Number 7, and former Britain’s Got Talent finalists Jack Pack make their Top 10 debut with their self-titled album, new at Number 8.
Erasure score an eighth Top 10 with their latest hits collection Always – The Very Best Of, going straight in at Number 9.
Sheffield rockers Def Leppard are new at Number 11 with their new eponymous release, while the soundtrack to the recent Amy Winehouse documentary is brand new at Number 19.
Rod Stewart makes another appearance as his 1990 collection The Storyteller – The Complete Anthology is new at 23, and Foals climb 18 places to 26 return to the Top 40 with What Went Down.
Ryan Adams reinterpretation of Taylor Swift’s Number 1 album 1989 rockets 164 places back into the Top 40, landing at Number 27 today.
Welsh rockers Skindred are new at 29 with Volume, and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black sneaks back into the Top 40 this week, at Number 37.
See the full Official Albums Chart Top 100 here (from 5.45pm)
*This includes Madonna & Various Artists' Evita OST
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de Sascha
It's 2015 and Elvis is #1!
Long live the King!
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colm
.Most every Music and movie stars Past and present .Even Rap Artist Praise Elvis Greatness in Music. And Have done Various music and TV Shows paying tribute to him. Impersonators Everywhere. On TV adds. In films Elvis gets a mention quite often in fact. They say things like Elvis has left the building. Well looks like he's back in the building.
etin
James morrison surprised me with #7.. Waiting top 3 at least
Martin Kenna
only one other guy is up there with elvis thats his ex son in law michael jackson! Too kings in heaven still beating the compeition mj highest earner in the world 6 years after his death, and now elvis number 1 40 years after his death, forget floyd mayweather v manny pacquiao, how big would a elvis v michael jackson theme be! king v king!
Juliet Bumstead
wonderful just wonderful
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Frank
I think Belbino needs to clean his ears and listen to Great music, not todays so called
BellBino
Elvis and Rod Stewart? Old people really are the only ones buying albums. Plus, you folks have very sappy taste in music.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
Yeah, that's why Presley, whose vocals have graced a billion ears since 1956, is the #66, #79 and #117 most infuential American/human that ever lived, according to studies by the Atlantic (2006) and National Geographic (2015) magazines, as well as by the MIT-launched "Pantheon" an online programme which maps the cultural development, influence and popularity, not decades ago, but today and certainly not in your circles, of every human who ever set foot on this earth since 4000 BC. Out of the 20 million people who have paid, travelling there from every corner if the world, to visit Graceland, a mighty 41 % are younger than 35. And the guy who in the nick of time, made a long distance phone call, from Paris, to NYC, on November 12, 2014 and gave the winning bid of US$81.9 million for Andy Warhol's "Triple Elvis" is not even 40 yet, and is not even related to the one his same age who in 2008, bought Warhol's "Eight Elvises"" for US$100 million. When you speak about Presley, you must do it in the knowledge that people like me can take you to the cleaners in debating music tastes. You've been warned...
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Lorenzo De Luca
I don't know what you listen to.. I don't even care but I love my 'sappy taste in music' 😂😂😂😂😂
BellBino
And yet somehow I'm not cowering. I like early Elvis, not his long mushy period. You know, it's OK to not like everything an artist does.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
No, that's not what you said. You said old,people are the only ones buying albums and I proved it to you that with Presley is multi-generational. Now you are telling us that you like early Elvis. And of course everyone is entitled to his own opinion, But you sound as if I had knocked the guys who admire the scientists who worked on both the atom and the hydrogen bombs, then when confronted with the facts, I would then say that I stand by my opinion because i happen to also like Enrico Fermi's early work...
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Mats
well wake up!! Im 20 and understand - without any doubt - that Elvis started it all. Died 38 years ago and no 1 with a new album!! Just how many of your favourites today do you think can do that?? ignorent people!! sold way more than MJ! Ignorance! Mats
BellBino
You need to get out more, dude.
andiamo18
And the moron award goes to, you guessed it BellBino
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Drew Butler
I'm 33 and a big elvis fan it's not our fault you have no sense of great music
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papasmurf
well said.
in my opnion based on the kings stats he is the most popular entertainer in modern hx.
" elvis is and will always be the worlds greatest idol"
amer idol live broadcast.
viva the king!
agnusdeitr
ELV1S... THE BIGGEST ENTERTAINER OF ALL TIME. (After 38 years of his death even.. )
LDL
Lorenzo De Luca
Like it or not Elvis' album is very well done.. Very well deserved
Brian Quinn
Congratulations to Elvis and to Priscilla for all the promotional legwork she has done in promoting this fabulous album.
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
They forgot to mention that the longest span to have ever been achieved on either side of the Atlantic, albums wise and between a recording artist first #1 and his or her most recent charttopper has now been further extended, set as it now is at an unbelievable fifty nine years and two days, from his first, "Rock and Roll", which entered the top of the UK album chart on November 4, 1956 to today, November 6, 2015.
mildredfarts
no..it is correct.12 number 1 albums in uk. i checked wikipedia.
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SergioBcn
Madonna have 12#1 with EVITA soundtrack
Brian Quinn
Thanks for that. The OCC should have that mentioned on their Madonna Webpage.
Brian Quinn
Many Thanks.
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guilherme
its considered a madonna album as she sang lead on most tracks.... as people consider the bodyguard whitney´s