Australian Pay TV music channel MAX regularly shows the ultimate music countdown show, "The Essential 20". Each episode counts down the 20 most essential music lists from all over the music spectrum. The series is hosted by Australian DJ Jabba and features commentary from notable Australian music experts, artists, critics and industry heavyweights.
Recently they counted down the Top 20 'Rockstars'. ELVIS was voted in as #1 (despite the obvious lack of airplay on the channel!)
The Top Five were:
1. ELVIS PRESLEY
2. Freddie Mercury (points removed for the Vacuum Cleaner video. Not very rock'n'roll!)
3. Bon Scott (from AC/DC)
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Mick Jagger
Gera schreef op 23 oktober 2012 om 15:01 uur:
The 50's Masters voor 20 euro? Da's echt geen geld. Ik wil zeggen tegen de mensen die deze uitgave nog niet hebben: gelijk doen! Ik heb er destijds veel meer voor betaald. Het is erg mooi materiaal!
cox luc schreef op 22 oktober 2012 om 20:20 uur:
2013 zal een jaar met vele verrasingen zijn eentje hiervan is de Cruise 2013 een droom van Elke Elvisfan die priscilla presley wil ontmoeten ikzelf ben al 35 jaar fan en priscilla nog nooit een handdruk kunnen geven nu is de tijd daar een mooie Elvis cruise waar ik al jaren van droom de mooie eilanden van Griekenland enz met de tcb band en Jerry schilling het wordt een ongelooflijke Elvis week in het mooie schip dit kan alleen Elvismatters voor Elkaar krijgen bedankt jongens om dit waar te makezn kijken er naar uit .
Gr Luc uit overpelt
Astrid schreef op 22 oktober 2012 om 15:46 uur:
Wat spannend en knap werk dat Elvismatters het voor elkaar krijgt nu ook Priscilla op de TCB cruise mee te krijgen. Wat zal dat een geweldige reis gaan worden. Hier had een Elvisfans nooit van kunnen dromen vele jaren geleden, dat we eens zo dichtbij Elvis zijn geliefden konden komen. Voor degene die gaan, een super cruise toegewenst!
JOHN DREESSEN schreef op 22 oktober 2012 om 15:00 uur:
Hierbij wil ik de Medewerkers van Elvis-Matters een Groot Compliment geven ,omtrent Inv, Nieuws en Andere Dingen die ze aan ELVIS besteden ,dat mag ook eens gezegd worden,andere fanclubs kunnen aan jullie een goed voorbeeld nemen,nomaals heel veel dank ,van THE ROCKIN,REBEL -JOHN DREESSEN ,MAASTRICHT
varvoort pharamond schreef op 22 oktober 2012 om 12:00 uur:
.In datzelfde artikel over de single verkoop in de UK staan nog een paar dingen die wel prettig zijn om lezen. Bvb. de cijfers van de album verkoop van de laatste 10 jaar.
Ik weet niet of dit allemaal klopt maar ik denk dat heel wat hedendaagse artiesten dadelijk zouden tekenen mochten ze op 10 jaar tijd in de UK alleen deze hoeveelheid aan albums verkopen.
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The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Male Singles Artists Of All Time revealed!
18/10/2012
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By Dan Lane
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Official Singles Chart, we reveal The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Male Singles Artists Of All Time!
Ding! Ding! One month to go! Yes, in just a little over four weeks from now we will be grabbing our balloons and party poppers to celebrate 60 glittering years of the Official Singles Chart; the institution that has kept pop fans like you and me salivating with anticipation on a weekly basis since we were knee-high to a grasshopper.
In the meantime, how’s about we all get our inner chart geek limbered up for the big occasion with The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Male Singles Artists Of All Time.
Elvis Presley tops the chart with combined sales of over 21.7 million singles. And despite his tragic death in 1977, Elvis’ legacy lives on strongly in the UK. Over the last decade, The King Of Rock And Roll has sold over 5.7 million albums and 2.2 million singles (this includes 1.3 million track downloads). In the last 18 months alone he has sold an incredible 317,000 albums and 333,000 track downloads.
Elvis scored his first UK hit way back in 1956 with Heartbreak Hotel, which peaked at Number 2. And it was a year later that he eventually landed his first UK Number 1 with All Shook Up. Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s not forget that Elvis still holds the record for the most Number 1 singles, 21 in total. His biggest selling single was 1960’s It’s Now Or Never, which also hit the top spot in 2005.
At Number 2 in the countdown, with a combined total of 21.5 million singles, it's Cliff! Forget those brilliantly naff Cliff calendars you see in the shops at Christmas time (you know the ones, featuring ‘Cliff on a tennis court’ or ‘Cliff in Hawaiian shirt’), our Cliff is actually a bit of a legend around these parts.
Making his chart debut in 1958 with Move It, which peaked at Number 2, Cliff is the most successful British male solo artist of all time, achieving the rare feat of having a Number 1 single in five different decades. He is one of only a few artists who have taken the same song to the top of the Official Singles Chart in completely separate chart runs; Living Doll hit Number 1 upon its released in 1959, and then again nearly 30 years later in 1986 with the cast of The Young Ones TV show. Ironically, Cliff's biggest selling single of all time is his 1962 smash,The Young Ones.
The King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, is in third place with a combined sales total of 15.5 million singles. And what was his biggest single? Earth Song. Yes, Earth Song! (Which you may remember was also the Official Christmas Number 1 of 1995, the last one before the Spice Girls hogged the festive top spot for three consecutive years!)
This is probably down to the fact that Michael has two of the Top 10 biggest selling albums of all time – 1982’s Thriller and 1987’s Bad – so the UK public were clearly moonwalking down to HMV, Woolworth’s and Our Price in force in the ‘80s to pick up the whole album, rather than what critics and fans consider to be his classic singles... Still, Earth Song?
Elton John (Number 4) and David Bowie (Number 5) complete the Top 5 with combined singles sales totals of 15 million and 10.7 million, respectively.
The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Male Singles Artists Of All Time is as follows. Did your favourite man popstar make it in? Lets us know on Twitter and Facebook.
ARTIST COMBINED SALES BIGGEST SELLING SINGLE
01 ELVIS PRESLEY 21.7 MILLION IT'S NOW OR NEVER
02 CLIFF RICHARD 21.5 MILLION THE YOUNG ONES
03 MICHAEL JACKSON 15.5 MILLION EARTH SONG
04 ELTON JOHN 15.0 MILLION CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 / SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
05 DAVID BOWIE 10.7 MILLION LET'S DANCE
06 PAUL McCARTNEY 10.3 MILLION MULL OF KINTYRE / GIRLS' SCHOOL
07 ROD STEWART 9.9 MILLION SAILING
08 STEVIE WONDER 9.1 MILLION I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU
09 EMINEM 8.9 MILLION LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE FT RIHANNA
10 GEORGE MICHAEL 7.9 MILLION CARELESS WHISPER
