'heartbreak Hotel' - 11th Best Selling Single 2006

[Brian Quinn]

The following is a List of the 20 Best Selling Singles 0f 2006 from Billboard Magazine.


Brian


Charts
YEAR END CHARTS
Hot Singles Sales
Issue Date: 12/31/2006

# Title Artist Labels
1 DO I MAKE YOU PROUD/TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS Taylor Hicks Arista/RMG
2 SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW/MY DESTINY Katharine McPhee RCA/RMG
3 EVERY DAY IS EXACTLY THE SAME Nine Inch Nails Nothing/Interscope
4 SISTER Scoundrel Squad Featuring Bun-B Invisible
5 HUNG UP Madonna Warner Bros.
6 ME & U Cassie NextSelection/Bad Boy/Atlantic
7 CHECK ON IT Beyonce Featuring Slim Thug Columbia
8 CALL ON ME Janet & Nelly Virgin
9 DEJA VU Beyonce Featuring Jay-Z Columbia
10 PROMISCUOUS Nelly Furtado Featuring Timbaland Mosley/Geffen
11 HEARTBREAK HOTEL Elvis Presley RCA/Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group
12 SORRY Madonna Warner Bros.
13 INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/VEHICLE Bo Bice RCA/RMG
14 GOLD LION Yeah Yeah Yeahs Dress Up/Interscope
15 BUTTONS The Pussycat Dolls Featuring Snoop Dogg A&M/Interscope
16 BLACK SWEAT/BEAUTIFUL, LOVED & BLESSED Prince Universal Republic
17 TOUCH IT Busta Rhymes Aftermath/Interscope
18 TE AMO CORAZON Prince Universal Republic
19 WE WILL BECOME SILHOUETTES/BE STILL MY HEART The Postal Service Sub Pop
20 INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/INDEPENDENCE DAY Carrie Underwood Arista/RMG

[Raised on Rock]

"Gold Lion" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! & "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley are the only straight rock and roll singles on that list, seems that guitar groups are on their way out...

Well that's what some people have been saying since what, 50 years? and ElvisPresley proves to be The King being on both lists, on those very first ones when you only saw a couple of rock songs among lots of bad stuff like Perry Como's Hot Diggity Dog Ziggity Boom, and in the recent ones when once again easy buck music dominate todays charts but theres still Presley and their pupils proving rock music wasn't just a fad from the 50's (Note the amount of the trademark Elvis echo on the live recordings of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! and the raw sexuality and loud clothing of their singer Karen O, check out their live verion of "Tick" to know what I mean by seen so much Elvis in them)

P.S. And don't forget Mr. Chuck Berry made a world tour last year baby! Long Live Rock and Roll!!!

[Raised on Rock]

Any chances for a new Elvis single this year?

[KPM]

This a great thing, does anyone know how many singles it actually sold. I know singles do not sell like they did from the 50s-into the 80s. I have also been curious to hear what ALLC sold all told.