Elvis Presley has entered the Billboard Top Christian album chart at #1, a first for the legendary artist, with "Where No One Stands Alone". Sales are the 18,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music. The new collection is also #1 on the Billboard Physical Albums chart and the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart.
While three contemporary gospel albums recorded by Elvis, "His Hand In Mine" (1960, RIAA Platinum), "How Great Thou Art" (1967, RIAA 3x Platinum) and "He Touched Me" (1972, RIAA Platinum), were released during the artist's lifetime, "Where No One Stands Alone" is the first Elvis album to hit #1 on the Billboard Christian album chart. Elvis Presley's religious recordings -- singles, EPs, albums, compilations -- have sold approximately 300 million copies in the US alone with "(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)" and "Crying In The Chapel" each selling more than 20 million copies.
Ten Elvis albums have hit #1 on the Billboard 200 while seven Elvis album titles have reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart.
Lisa Marie Wins Court Case
Lisa Marie had to leave Elvis Week early to head back to court - but has at last received some good news in her divorce court case from Michael Lockwood.
According to the media court papers state that Lisa Marie won’t have to pay her estranged husband spousal support.
In the order handed down on (of all days) August 17, a judge found that a 2007 post-nuptial agreement signed by Presley and Lockwood was valid.
The agreement was arrived at the year after Presley and Lockwood married and before the couple’s twins were born. The post-nuptial agreement stated that, “in the event of a judgment of nullity, legal separation or dissolution of marriage, neither party shall be obligated to pay spousal support to the other.”
The court added that apparently Lockwood didn’t read it because it didn’t interest him but he still signed them as well as his attorney.
The decision marked a victory for Lisa Marie in the on-going and nasty divorce proceedings. In February, Presley was ordered to pay $100,000 for Lockwood’s legal fees, after she asked to pay no more than $40,000.
That amount was a compromise between what Presley and Lockwood had been seeking. According to court papers filed earlier this month, Lockwood had sought $460,000 in attorney’s fees and costs relating to their divorce proceedings.
In making her case Lisa Marie filed paperwork stating that she was more than $16 million in debt. The majority of that burden relates to tax debt, which totals just over $10 million. However, Lockwood subsequently filed papers alleging that Presley had been “misleading and inaccurate” about her finances.
(Source: Graceland / Elvis Information Network)