To date, the album has spent 20 weeks on the Catalogue chart and 14 weeks on the Billboard 200. 'An Afternoon In The Garden' is - with quite a margin - the best-selling Elvis album in 2011. Its chart performance and sales are - actually - better than the all the "new" Sony mainstream Elvis releases from the past ~3 years (including 'Viva Elvis' and 'Elvis 75').
Here is a short summary of how the album has performed on the US charts, since its - quite unexpected - appearance earlier this spring:
Billboard 20 / Catalogue chart
02/12 : #166 | #20
02/19 : #137 | #16
02/26 : # ---
03/05 : # ---
03/12 : # --- | #37
03/19 : #172 | #28
03/26 : # --- | #34
04/02 : # --- | #35
04/09 : # --- | #50
04/16 : # ---
04/23 : #123 | #12
04/30 : #85 | #8
05/07 : #89 | #8
05/14 : #88 | #9
05/21 : #98 | #13
05/28 : #114 | #13
06/04 : #131 | #15
06/11 : #150 | #22
06/18 : #154 | #21
06/25 : #194 | #32
07/02 : # ---
07/09 : # ---
07/16 : # ---
07/23 : # --- | #43
07/30 : # --- | #41
08/06 : #177 | #26
Swedish Chart
The CD 'The Essential Elvis Presley' re-entered the Swedish album chart at # 22.
ELVIS 35 2012
- Sony Music have a brand new special music release planned, as yet unannounced.
- Warner Bros plan to re-release some Elvis movies in a new box
- Zippo, Mattel, The Bradford Exchange and many other licensees are getting ready to start production on their products for the Anniversary tie-in.
- Licensed merchandise featuring the 2012 artwork will begin to appear at retail outlets around Thanksgiving 2011 with a limited number of items available during Elvis Week 2011.
