CSPC: Elvis Presley Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales – Part 3

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

Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) – 942,000 equivalent albums

Return to Sender – 3,110,000
The Walls Have Ears – 30,000

It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963) – 306,000 equivalent albums

One Broken Heart for Sale – 1,020,000

Fun in Acapulco (1963) – 480,000 equivalent albums

Bossa Nova Baby – 1,430,000
Mexico – 170,000

Kissin’ Cousins (1964) – 285,000 equivalent albums

Kissin’ Cousins – 950,000

Roustabout (1964) – 0 equivalent album

No physical single released.

Girl Happy (1965) – 450,000 equivalent albums

Do the Clam – 900,000
Puppet on a String – 600,000

Although it got blocked for 5 weeks at #2 in the US by the Four Seasons‘ Big Girls Don’t Cry, the song Return to Sender shifted a tremendous 3 million units in total, half of which came from the US.

After the orphan hit (You’re) The Devil In Disguise from 1963, the run of insane sellers ended for Presley, but the King was still able to shift more or less a million copies with most of its singles.