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ELVIS IS THE BEST SELLING SOLO ARTIST OF ALL TIME
HE RECORDED OVER 600 SONGS, AND HAS SOLD OVER
ONE BILLION RECORDINGS (SINGLES, ALBUMS, CASSETTES,
AND CD's)
148 ELVIS RECORDINGS HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED GOLD,
PLATINUM, AND MULTI PLATINUM.
GOLD
= 500,000 UNITS SOLD
PLATINUM
= 1,000,000 UNITS SOLD
MULTI
PLATINUM = 10,000,000 UNITS SOLD
(CERTIFIED BY THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
OF
AMERICA)
149 RECORDINGS HIT
THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
114 RECORDINGS HIT THE BILLBOARD TOP
40
40 RECORDINGS HIT THE BILLBOARD
TOP 10
18 RECORDINGS HIT BILLBOARD'S
NUMBER 1
11 MOVIE
SOUNDTRACKS BROKE THE TOP 10
4 OF THE SOUNDTRACKS
HIT NUMBER 1
BLUE HAWAII WAS NUMBER 1 FOR 20 WEEKS
ELVIS HAD 90 THAT ALBUMS
CHARTED
.
THE ABOVE NUMBERS ARE FOR U.S. POP CHARTS ONLY
IT'S ESTIMATED THAT 40 % OF ELVIS' SALES WERE NON
U.S. SALES.
.
I DON'T THINK THERE IS AN EXACT NUMBER OF SALES KNOWN, BECAUSE THE RIAA DIDN'T START CERTIFICATION UNTIL
1958. ELVIS STARTED RECORDING IN 1954.
.
IN THE CONCERT YEARS BETWEEN 1969 AND 1977 ELVIS SOLD
OUT 1,100 SHOWS. HE WAS PAID $500,00 FOR BIG VENUE SHOWS.
IN FEBRUARY 1970 IN HIS FIRST CONCERT OUT OF LAS VEGAS,
ELVIS SOLD OUT SIX SHOWS IN THE HOUSTON ASTRODOME.
210,000 PEOPLE ATTENDED GIVING ELVIS A $1.2 MILLION
PAYDAY.
IN 1957, IN HIS ONLY CONCERTS OUTSIDE THE
U.S. ELVIS
GAVE FIVE PERFORMANCES IN CANADA. AROUND 73,000 FANS
ATTENDED SHOWS IN TORONTO, OTTAWA, AND VANCOUVER.
.
IN ADDITION TO ALL THE CONCERTS, ELVIS ALSO SOLD OUT
837 SHOWS IN LAS VEGAS. TICKET SALES TOTALED $43.7 MILLION FOR THE LAS VEGAS
SHOWS. THAT EQUATES TO $250 MILLION IN 2007 DOLLARS.
IN JULY OF 1969 ELVIS OPENED THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL IN
LAS VEGAS WITH 57 SOLD OUT PERFORMANCES. THAT BROKE ALL EXISTING LAS VEGAS ATTENDANCE RECORDS.
.
ELVIS RETURNED TO THE INTERNATIONAL IN JANUARY OF
1970 FOR A MONTH LONG ENGAGEMENT BREAKING HIS OWN
ATTENDANCE RECORDS.
IN 1971 THE INTERNATIONAL BECAME THE LAS VEGAS HILTON.
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE ATTENDED ELVIS PERFORMANCES DURING THE LAS VEGAS YEARS.
IN 1986 ELVIS WAS IN THE FIRST GROUP OF INDUCTEES IN
THE ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME IN CLEVELAND, OH.
JOINING ELVIS IN THE INAUGURAL INDUCTION WERE ; RAY
CHARLES, BUDDY HOLLY, LITTLE RICHARD, THE EVERLY BROS.
JERRY LEE LEWIS, SAM COOKE, AND CHUCK BERRY.
ELVIS WAS ADMITTED INTO THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME
IN NASHVILLE IN 1998.
IN 2001 ELVIS WAS ADMITTED INTO THE GOSPEL MUSIC
ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME. (ALSO IN NASHVILLE)
ELVIS IS THE ONLY ARTIST TO BE A MEMBER OF THREE DIFFERENT
MUSIC BASED HALLS OF FAME.
ELVIS WAS NOMINATED FOR 14 GRAMMY AWARDS, BUT WON
ONLY THREE. ALL THREE GRAMMYS WERE FOR HIS GOSPEL
RECORDINGS.
THEY WERE :
HOW GREAT THOU ART (ALBUM) - BEST SACRED PERFORMANCE IN 1967.
HE TOUCHED ME - BEST INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN 1972.
HOW GREAT THOU ART (FROM LIVE ON STAGE FROM MEMPHIS) - BEST INSPIRATIONAL PERFRORMANCE
IN 1974.
ELVIS WON A LIFETIME ACIEVEMENT GRAMMY AWARD IN 1971.
THERE ARE 625 ACTIVE ELVIS FAN CLUBS WORLDWIDE.
ELVIS IS THE MOST IMPERSONATED CELEBRITY IN THE WORLD.
THERE ARE 50,000 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE WHO MAKE THEIR
LIVING AS AN ELVIS IMPERSONATOR (OR TRIBUTE ARTIST)
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