CSPC: Elvis Presley Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales – Part 2

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.

Elvis Is Back! (1960) – 345,000 equivalent albums

Such a Night – 900,000
The GIrl of my Best Friend – 250,000

G.I. Blues (1960) – 708,000 equivalent albums

Wooden Heart – 1,960,000
G.I. Blues – 400,000

His Hand in Mine (1960) – 96,000 equivalent albums

Milky White Way – 120,000
Joshua Fit the Battle – 200,000

Something for Everybody (1961) – 87,000 equivalent albums

There’s Always Me – 290,000

Blue Hawaii (1961) – 930,000 equivalent albums

Can’t Help Falling in Love – 2,470,000
Blue Hawaii – 200,000
No More – 430,000

Pot Luck (1962) – 885,000 equivalent albums

Kiss Me Quick – 950,000
(Such an) Easy Question – 770,000
I’m Yours – 940,000
Suspicion – 290,000

The run of massive smash hits by Presley continued in 1960, but it continued to be so with orphan songs. He dropped as many as 3 huge #1 smashes that year in the US, but since none were part of his albums, the top selling song listed here is Wooden Heart that managed to sell near 2 million with sales abroad only. The only proper global hit there is thus Can’t Help Falling in Love. At nearly 2,5 million sales, the song one a strong seller back in the day but we will see soon enough that it is much more past hype.