Brian Quinn

I think we'll hire these people for the next Campaign: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...rt-success.html Brian :lol:

Elvis has been awarded PLATINUM upgrades by the RIAA for the following albums: 1. 'Elvis Presley' (LPM 1254) and 2. 'Elvis' (LPM 1382). We all know that they have sold much more but that will do for a start. Great news though. Brian :dance:

'An Afternoon In The Garden' rises from 189 to 188 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart for w/e 24th December, 2011. 'It's Christmas Time' rises from 63 to 60 on the Top 200 Album Chart, rises from 11 to 8 on the Catalog Album Chart and rises from 19 to 13 on the Holiday Album Chart. 'Elvis Christmas' rises from 86 to 68 on the Top 200 Album Chart and rises from 21 to 12 on the Catalog Album Chart. It also rises from 30 to 18 on the Holiday Album Chart. 'Elvis Christmas Duets' drops from 183 to 196 on the Top 200 Album Chart. 'Blue Christmas' rises from 19 to 18 on the Holiday Songs Chart. Brian B-)

'Blue Christmas' download now No.40 on the HMV(UK) Chart: http://www.hmvdigital.com/charts/track Brian :D

Unfortunately 'Blue Christmas' did not make the Top 100 UK Single Charts for this week. As the campaign only started on the 10th it may be too early to judge. We will have to wait until next week to see if there has been any progress. Interestingly, 'Elvis Christmas' album is currently at No.2 in the Seasonal Albums Chart at Amazon (U.S.A.) even outselling the current No.1 album by Michael Buble. Brian

Elvis was listed as Billboard's 8th Most Successful Catalog Artist for 2011 and he had two albums in the Top 50 Most Successful Catalog Albums for 2011: 28 - 'An Afternoon In The Garden' and 50 - 'Elvis Christmas' Brian :D

The Campaign starts today (10th). Brian B-)

'An Afternoon In The Garden' drops from 176 to 189 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart for w/e 17th December, 2011. 'It's Christmas Time' rises from 116 to 63 on the Top 200 Album Chart, drops from 24 to 11 on the Catalog Album Chart and rises from 29 to 19 on the Holiday Album Chart. 'Elvis Christmas' rises from 107 to 86 on the Top 200 Album Chart and drops from 18 to 21 on the Catalog Album Chart. Elvis Christmas Duets Re-enters the Top 200 Album Chart at 183. 'Blue Christmas' rises from 21 to 19 on the Holiday Songs Chart. Brian B-)

Please go to the following URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTq9WJvdN0o Brian :D

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Please go to the following URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD8vOdd9eDI...player_embedded Brian B-)

'Blue Christmas' UK Single Campaign 2011 UK Fan Clubs are mounting a campaign to get 'Blue Christmas' in the UK Single Charts in time for Christmas Day 2011. Hopefully fans from around the World can help us achieve our objective. It is imperative that you do not download the single before 10th December. Any date after that is fine in the run up to Christmas Day. Please use downloading sites that count for the UK Charts e.g. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/blue-chri...38?i=4024423740 http://www.hmvdigital.com/artist/elvis-pre...-original-sound http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Christmas/dp/...;sr=1-1-catcorr Let's all try and get 'Blue Christmas' in the charts. So far nearly every artist you can think of is in the download charts with a Christmas single from Brenda Lee to Paul McCartney but NO Elvis. Hopefully we can change that. Thanks. Brian :)

Country singer Loretta Lynn said she had never met Elvis Presley but had talked to him about collaborating on a music project. They had planned to start working together in early September 1977. Presley died three weeks earlier, on Aug. 16. “We were ready to do it. I was on the road when he passed away,” she said. Lynn recalled her last telephone conversation with Presley. “He was just a plain old country boy, as country as I am, and that’s pretty bad,” she said, laughing. Would be interesting to know what the project entailed. Brian

Please go to the following URL: http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=15 Great News. Let's hope he wins it. Trouble is McCartney always seems to win everything he is nominated for as he always appears to collect the Award in person and that adds kudos to the show. Brian :dance:

'An Afternoon In The Garden' drops from 156 to 176 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart for w/e 10th December, 2011. 'It's Christmas Time' drops from 78 to 116 on the Top 200 Album Chart and drops from 10 to 24 on the Catalog Album Chart. 'Elvis Christmas' drops from 96 to 107 on the Top 200 Album Chart and drops from 16 to 18 on the Catalog Album Chart. It also drops from 24 to 25 on the Holiday Album Chart. 'Blue Christmas' debuts on the 'Holiday Songs' Chart at No.21 and is No.48 on the Digital Catalog Songs chart - with 5448 downloads this week making an overall total of 399207 downloads. Although these latest placings appear disappointing in fact the opposite is the case. 'An Afternoon In The Garden' sold 4154 copies last week and this week sold 7492 copies (the highest weekly sales tally since entering the Catalog Album Chart). 'Elvis Christmas' sold 6520 copies last week and this week sold 12,037 copies. 'Its Christmas Time' sold 8393 copies last week and this week sold 11,491 copies. During heavy sales periods e.g. Christmas, Catalog Albums will always fare less well chartwise as newer albums will take precedence with shoppers. However, sales of the Catalog Albums will also rise due to their exposure to more customers online and in store as has happened this week. Brian :D

Following multiple posts by me(and others)on Billboard's Facebook Page they have printed the following: Billboard wrote: "Brian, we hope this explanation helps clarify. Thank you for your feedback and let us know if you have additional questions based on the below. The chart statistics referenced in a recent Rihanna story (http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/weekly-chart-notes-rihanna-kelly-clarkson-1005476352.story) were based on the Billboard Hot 100 chart which launched in 1958. The Hot 100 was the first chart of its kind to rank songs based on a combination of juke box plays, airplay and sales. Prior to the Hot 100, Billboard printed various pop charts based either on disc jockey reports/airplay, sales or juke box plays. This includes the Top 100, which started in late 1955 as a limited hybrid chat and morphed back into a sales-based chart in 1957. Elvis’s No. 1s on those pre-1958 charts have been counted by some sources in conjunction with the Hot 100 when considered among No. 1 songs in the supposed rock and roll era (1955 to present), which is where the confusion lies. As is the fact that some sources equally count a pre-Hot 100 No. 1 if it topped either of the Hot 100’s predecessors (Top 100, Best-Sellers, Juke Box, Disc Jockey). As is the case with Elvis’ “I Want You I Need You I Love You” which topped the Best-Sellers chart, but not the Top 100 in 1956. So if we decide to count all other pre-Hot 100 charts when attributing No. 1s, why stop at 1955 when charts like Best-Sellers were around since the 1940s? Why not count Bing Crosby’s 36 No. 1 songs and 317 chart hits since that time on all of those same charts? It seems like we should based on the Elvis defense. In no way is Billboard diminishing Elvis’ chart achievements. In fact, we specifically reference Elvis in the above story, mentioning his No. 1 total prior to the Hot 100: Among the seven acts to tally at least 11 leaders, only two acts reached the milestone more quickly: the Beatles, in a mere, Beatlemania-fueled, one year, 11 months and one week between "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (Feb. 1, 1964) and "We Can Work It Out" (Jan. 8, 1966); and, the Supremes, who needed only four years, three months and one week between "Where Did Our Love Go" (Aug. 22, 1964) and "Love Child" (Nov. 30, 1968). (Prior to the Hot 100's Aug. 4, 1958, inception and after, Elvis Presley racked 11 No. 1s on various Billboard pop charts over a rapid-fire span of three years, three months and three weeks). For the purpose of the Rihanna story, we were solely highlighting feats on the Hot 100, as we have often done in the past and as we did in 2008 to honor the 50-year history of the chart. The Hot 100 has long been our flagship singles ranking and we try to focus on records achieved on that chart separate from what may have occurred on any other charts that have come before or after it, without losing sight of those notable non-Hot 100 records." Brian

Apparently, the Official UK Fan Club want to try and get one of Elvis' Christmas songs into the top ten for Christmas. The song they would like for this is of course 'Blue Christmas' and what they are asking is from the 1st of December for every fan to download 'Blue Christmas' from i-tunes or other download sites ( where the download counts "chartwise" ) and at least try to get Elvis into the top ten. For information. Brian

During w/e 20th November, 2011, Elvis sold more catalog albums (32,609) than any other artist in the US (based on the Top 200 Catalog album chart). Elvis also had the most titles listed on this chart - 9. 1 Elvis Presley - 32,609 2 Susan Boyle - 21,219 3 Adele - 18,512 ... ... Pink Floyd - 13,457 Michael Jackson - 11,209 Frank Sinatra - 8,455 Johnny Cash - 8262 Beatles - 4609 Billboard defines a catalog title as one that is more than eighteen months old and has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200. The only exception to the 'eighteen months old' rule pertains to holiday releases. A 'holiday' album is eligible for the Billboard 200 only during its initial year of release. After its first year, a holiday-related album appears on Top Catalog Albums. Further, the above figures only include sales from those Elvis albums listed on the Top 200 Catalog Album Chart in the U.S.A. The Elvis Presley catalog is one of (if not the) largest there is. In 2008, over 60 Elvis albums were listed on the UK Year-End (Top 10,000) Albums list - more than any other artist. Many thanks to Mael for supplying the above information. Now that is some GOOD news. Brian :D

'An Afternoon In The Garden' drops from 140 to 156 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart for w/e 3rd December, 2011. 'It's Christmas Time' rises from 82 to 78 on the Top 200 Album Chart and rises from 11 to 10 on the Catalog Album Chart. It drops from 16 to 18 on the Holiday Album Chart. 'Elvis Christmas' rises from 109 to 96 on the Top 200 Album Chart and rises from 17 to 16 on the Catalog Album Chart. It drops from 19 to 24 on the Holiday Album Chart. Brian :)

November 24th 2011 EPE LOSE LEGAL BATTLE - The legal heirs of Elvis Presley lost a lawsuit Wednesday in Germany claiming a fortune from Sony Music Entertainment Germany for what they called the "exploitation of Elvis Presley's greatest hits". The Judge hearing the case in the Munich court mockingly quoted one of Elvis' 50s songs, saying, 'Money, honey, if you want to get along with me,' as he threw out the claim by Elvis Presley Enterprises for a share of the record company's profits over the past 40 years. The unprecedented deal, thought up by Colonel Parker saw Elvis sign away to RCA Records in 1973 the rights to all his classic hits and more, including Heartbreak Hotel and Jailhouse Rock, for a lump sum of $5.4 million dollars. The deal saw both Parker and RCA Records profit greatly while Elvis was walk away with less than £2 million dollars for all but his entire career. Sony later acquired the rights. The Elvis estate argued the package was now worth $130 million dollars thanks to German copyright extensions. They partly based their claim on a 2002 provision in German rights law that ordains a top-up of royalties for unexpected best-sellers. But the judge disagreed. Christian Czychowski, the lawyer for Elvis Presley Enterprises, in which the icon's daughter Lisa-Marie Presley holds a 15-per-cent stake, said his client would appeal. Brian

Please go to the following URL: http://www.lvrj.com/news/-viva-elvis-closi...73.html?ref=973 Brian :(

Please go to the following URL: http://www.prx.org/pieces/54787-viva-elvis/floating_piece Brian B-)

November 19th 2011 ELVIS AT 12 ON FILM - Hot news hits the E.E.R desk with talk of a never before seen film which is claimed to feature a 12 year old Elvis as he leaves Lawhon School in Tupelo. The film is said to be of Children leaving the School and the young Elvis is said to be seen for only a fleeting moment but if this the real thing, it will be an amazing piece of early Elvis history. We were told a representative from EPE has checked it out. E.E.R's Joe contacted EPE on the matter, who confirmed to us they had met with an individual who showed them the film, but at this time they had not been able to examine the footage in any great detail. Elvis Express Radio will bring you more news on this issue as and when we get further details from those involved. Information courtesy of www.elvis-express.com Brian :dance:

Not yet officially announced but: Elvis in Concert, Forum, Copenhagen, Saturday March 24, 2012. Tickets to go on sale 28th November, 2011. Brian :dance:

Please go to the following URL: http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/201111...t-Hardin-Center Brian B-)