On the Country Catalog Albums "Merry Christmas... Love, Elvis" climbed from #22 to #10 while "Heart And Soul" dropped from #11 to #19. "The Classic Christmas Album" is a new entry at #21 on the Country Catalog Album Chart.
On the Holiday Digital Songs chart "Blue Christmas" climbed from #44 to #30.
The "Merry Christmas, Love Elvis" compilation re-enters the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at #161 and is a new entry on the Catalog Album Chart at #32 and on the Holiday Album chart it drops from #14 to #18 this week.
On the Dutch Midprice Album chart the "The Essential Elvis" climbed from #26 to #22.
The CD "The Real... Elvis" re-entered the Italian Album charts once more, this week at #91
Must Own Rock Album
Rolling Stone recently voted Elvis' 'Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)' in their list of "50 Rock Albums Every Country Fan Should Own". They noted...
The list is chronological, other albums from the similar period are The Rolling Stones, 'Sticky Fingers', Bob Dylan, 'Nashville Skyline', The Band, 'The Band'.
Elvis Presley, 'Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)' (1971) - Elvis recorded country music throughout his career — from classics at Sun sessions in the Fifties to unrepentant schlock. 1971's Elvis Country isn't as famous as his 1968 comeback landmark From Elvis In Memphis but it's one of his most consistent, thematically tight albums, showing off his voice in boundless, effortless form and taking on a set of songs he had a deep connection with. Recording at Nashville's RCA Studios with greats like guitarist James Burton and drummer Jerry Carrigan, he does honky-tonk, bluegrass, countrypolitan, Western swing and Sun Records rock & roll (a blazing version of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," recorded in one take, when Elvis and producer Felton Jarvis realized they were short of material). His moving version of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away," a song Al Green covered two years later, might be the album's capper but he even throws some soul into Anne Murray.
(Source: Brian Quinn / Dutchcharts / Elvis Information Network / The King's World)