I knew he cant beat Michael Jackson, though I am quite surprise he managed to beat Madonna by such a large amount. Elvis at his peak is not nearly as big as The Beatles, although his large amount of albums release managed to make the gap much less smaller. Anyway, he is the first real big huge global icon. You and your team did a great job and this is a great tribute to a great legend. Well done.

It also helps show that despite being the biggest market, the US isn't the be-all, end-all.

Is the total for Mexico only 370,000 albums ?, it looks very low.

Hi Tom!

As I said in my previous answer to Dan, totals involve only albums for which there is an estimate / a calculation. Many albums had no version explicitely released in Mexico / Argentina so the figure remains blank. In that case, sales are adjusted through South America remaining sales cell. There is 1,914,000 Latin American sales unallocated for in remaining individual markets. There is 500k+ sales from them that come from each Mexico and Argentina, and the rest is mostly from Chile, then a bit from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia, etc.

I didn't see that message, thanks for the answer 🙂
For the Moody Blue album did you include it's sales from Norway ( it was very successful here recieving a diamond award for 100,000 sold )..

Awesome job ! Never read anything so precise and impressive about the record sales. I can't imagine the amount of work it represents... Congratulations to the Charts Masters team !
To compare precisely the sales of the "Big 3", could you give us the total purely sales of The Beatles and MJ, as you've done it (below) for Elvis ?
Cheers !

Impressive. I didn't expect Elvis behind Michael. Great Job, MJD.

So he sold Aprox. 500 million records?

And about Beattles and Michael? I Think these three are in another level.

It's not a value judgement.

WOW
Elvis is insane, i think he is the most successful recording artist in the history of the US (?)

BTW, elvis did VERY poorly in some countries, especially argentina, italy and mexico. I expected him doing OK to good everywhere
on the other hand, his sales in the uk better than I imagined

what about Dire Straits and George Michael?

Dont wanna be a sour pne but...
MICHAEL WON!
But anyways, Elvis has had a very impressive catalog. 312 million album equivalents is no joke.

Not just that MJ beat him but Queen did it too on ASR. I didn't expect that.

Queen are the best selling artist of all time in Europe, so that's not very surprising.