Thursday, December 22, 2011

December 22 - New Book Charts From D'Agostini

The Billboard charts for the week ending December 31, 2011:
  • 'An Afternoon In The Garden' rises from #188 to #167 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart for w/e 31st December, 2011. 
  • 'It's Christmas Time' drops from #60 to #72 on the Top 200 Album Chart, drops from #8 to #11 on the Catalog Album Chart and drops from 13 to 16 on the Holiday Album Chart. 
  • 'Elvis Christmas' drops from #68 to #94 on the Top 200 Album Chart and rises from #12 to #18 on the Catalog Album Chart. It also drops from #18 to #25 on the Holiday Album Chart.
  • 'Blue Christmas' drops from #18 to #19 on the Holiday Songs Chart.
Elvis got three of its albums inside the BB200. It also charted albums in both the BBCCh *Billboard catalog chart), and in the BBSCh (BB Seasonal Chart), from which the following totals can be obtained. 

Soundscan sales this week (albums sold, toal sales, chartposition):
- It's Christmas Time 17,744 (1,368,120 #72 BB200)
- Elvis' Christmas 14,388 (584,049 / #94 BB200)
- An Afternoon In The Garden 7,696 (396,824 / #167 BB200)
- Christmas Duets  6, 111 (#482,557 / #76 BBCCh
- Best Of Love 5,076 #205,844 #105 BBCh
- Blue Christmas 3,749 (740,341 / #143 BBCh) 
- Elvis Country 3,723 (#74,283 / #150 BBCCh)
- An Evening Prayer 3,542 (122,675 / #156 BBCCh) 
- Elvis Rock #3,285 (132,072 /170 BBCCh) 
- Home For The Holidays 1,936 (190,086 / 180 BBSaCh) 
This week these ten albums sold 67,250 copies. 
    New Book In The Works


    Great news for all die hard fans who are interested in learning more about the 'forgotten' years of the King's life. Dale Franklin (Examiner) is currently writing a book and doing a documentary that traces the history of Memphis Blues and and the birth of Rockabilly and tells the unknown story of Elvis Presley prior to 1954. No release date is set yet.

    New Elvis Magazine / DVD Sets From DeAgostini


    The global Italian publishing "DeAgostini", which specializes in collecting magazines with inserts and Elvis Presley Enterprises announced that they will issue a new series of Magazine/DVD-sets. Each issue consists of a 28-page booklet Elvis, a DVD supplement with an Elvis movie and reproductions of Elvis memorabilia from the archives of EPE in Memphis. Available is also a collection box for each issue. In Germany, the series will commence on January 18, 2012 with a new volume from available from newsagents each two weeks.


    Elvis The King



    Hard to read for most people outside Finland... but with a little help of my friends I could figure out that the Christmas issue (4/2011) contains part 4 of 1001 Elvis stories, an article on the connection between the Everlies and Elvis, part 4 of a closer look on 1963, the first part of an interview with Jerry Schilling and much more.


    Golden Boy Elvis


    This colorful magazine from Germany (4/2011) continues with Elvis' pedigree, has an in depth look on He Touched Me and continues with the series Songs A-Z, rumours about songs and looks forward to 2012. Of course all regulars are present too.



    (Source: FECC / Elvis Matters / The King's World / ElvisNews)