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Brian Quinn
07-29-2011, 04:29 AM
'An Afternoon In The Garden' re-entered the Billboard 200 this week - at #177 - with 3,087 copies sold.

(i) As of (late) October last year, the album had scanned a total of 194,552 units.
(ii) A total of 306,183 units had been scanned in the US, as of last Sunday.

--> Consequently, An Afternoon In The Garden sold/scanned approximately 112,000 copies in the past 9 months.

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 & 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 200
Catalog 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

The above information kindly supplied by Mael.

This has always been my favourite officially released 'live' Elvis album. If it keeps up the trend of re-entering the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart then hopefully it will not be long before we see a new Gold record for The King.

Brian :D

vivaelvis
07-29-2011, 08:44 AM
As I said on TMMB, imagine if they had promoted it? It might have reached the top 10 or better. Maybe they will see the opportunity in his live music now and put some marketing and ads behind it in 2012.

Brian Quinn
07-31-2011, 05:15 AM
As I said on TMMB, imagine if they had promoted it? It might have reached the top 10 or better. Maybe they will see the opportunity in his live music now and put some marketing and ads behind it in 2012.

Hi Viva,

I agree entirely. It looks as though SONY are going to concentrate on the more expensive box set packages for the forseeable future e.g. 'Young Man With The Big Beat'. Sony believe they can make more money on such 'high end' releases than they can on cheaper 'general release' product as can be seen from the following article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/bruce-springsteen-pop-market-jimi-hendrix-american-idol-sony-2011-4

Brian

Brian Quinn
09-05-2011, 03:14 PM
'An Afternoon In The Garden' drops from 118 to 123 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and rises from 11 to 10 on the Catalog Abum Chart for the week ended 10th September, 2011.

SoundScan (US) Sales-figures (Sales to August 28, 2011) kindly supplied by Mael.

Top Catalog Albums
#10 An Afternoon In The Garden 3658 -6% 3902 325,638
#86 The Very Best Of Love (2007 re-issue) 1767 -5% 1867 159,427
#128 An Evening Prayer 1450 -13% 1670 91,709
#154 Elvis 30 #1 Hits 1340 -9% 1471 4,761,818
#160 Elvis Rock 1324 -18% 1612 103,704

Brian (y)