Elton John :: Charts & Sales History

[lucad]

From EltonJohn.com
http://www.eltonjohn.com/news/news_deta ... 55&yr=2013

Elton's The Diving Board has entered the Official Albums Chart UK Top 100 at #3,
making it his highest debuting studio album since Songs From The West Coast (2001) and following last year's #1 debut of Good Morning To The Night (a collection of remixes and reworkings of songs from Elton's 1970s catalogue by Elton John vs. Pnau).

This places The Diving Board in the company of 19 other Elton albums that have reached #3 or higher on the UK charts, starting with his third release, Tumbleweed Connection, in 1971.

Here is a list of the 20 Elton albums that have reached #3 or higher on the UK Album charts:

1971 Tumbleweed Connection (#2)
1972 Honky Château (#2)
1973 Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player (#1)
1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (#1)
1974 Caribou (#1)
1974 Elton John Greatest Hits (#1)
1975 Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (#2)
1976 Blue Moves (#3)
1984 Breaking Hearts (#2)
1985 Ice On Fire (#3)
1989 Sleeping With The Past (#1)
1990 The Very Best of Elton John (#1)
1992 The One (#2)
1995 Made In England (#3)
1997 The Big Picture (#3)
2001 Songs From The West Coast (#2)
2002 Greatest Hits 1970-2002 (#3)
2007 Rocket Man — The Definitive Hits (#2)
2012 Good Morning To The Night (#1)
2013 The Diving Board (#3)


nb; tumbleweed peak at n.6, not 2 as reported, but aniway is impressing. So many missed n.1 ALSO

[chartobserver]

ROCKET MAN - THE DEFINITIVE HITS
ELTON JOHN

UK Charts

# 98 (up from # 171), total 138 weeks

France Back Catalogue Charts

# 91

Australian Catalogue Charts

# 33 (up from # 47), total 106 weeks, peak # 1

[chartobserver]

Canada

WEEK OF / SEMAINE DU: 09/15/2013 TOP CATALOGUE

Weeks Label 2W LW TW Artist Title TW % LW RTD

205 ISL 49 24 20 JOHN*ELTON ROCKET MAN-NUMBER 1'S 315 5 300 154,387

[lucad]

Here's The dedicated diving board post . Please update there viewtopic.php?f=24&t=98432

[mansfield]

The "diving board" today on Itunes :

#1 Antigua and Barbuda
#3 Papua New Guinea
#4 Bolivia
#4 Israel
#4 Poland
#4 Sweden
#4 Zimbabwe
#5 Portugal
#5 Russia
#6 Azerbaijan
#6 Lebanon
#7 Belarus
#7 Israel
#7 Italy
#7 Kenya
#9 United Kingdom
#9 Mongolia
#10 Oman
#11 Switzerland
#13 The Bahamas
#13 Ukraine
#13 United Arab Emirates
#14 Italy
#16 Argentina
#16 Singapore
#16 Turkey
#17 Colombia
#17 Spain
#18 France
#20 Denmark
#21 Mozambique
#22 Norway
#24 Belgium
#24 Brazil
#24 Sri Lanka
#25 Hungary
#25 Kazakhstan
#26 United Kingdom
#26 Austria
#33 Thailand
#36 Germany
#36 Nicaragua
#36 Venezuela
#38 New Zealand
#43 Latvia
#60 Czech Republic
#60 Netherlands
#61 Nigeria
#66 Russia
#68 Taiwan
#73 Ireland
#74 Switzerland
#88 Denmark
#90 Peru
#100 Luxembourg

[chartobserver]

Re-entry in the UK Top 100 album Charts

Greatest Hits 1970-2002

# 99 total 144 weeks

[lucad]

UK Most Donwloaded Tracks (from 2004)
To celebrate Sir Elton John’s BRITs Icon Award, we reveal his Top 40 most downloaded tracks!

Tomorrow night (Friday 13 September) on ITV and ITV HD, 9pm, Sir Elton John will be honoured with the first ever BRITSs Icon Award. Dermot O'Leary hosts the glittering show at London's Palladium, including a special performance by Sir Elton and Rod Stewart, who presents him with the inaugural award.

To whet your appetite, and celebrate Elton’s remarkable career, we’re exclusively counting down Elton’s Official Top 40 Most Downloaded Tracks!

Elton has sold more than 250 million records worldwide and is also famously responsible for the UK’s biggest selling single of all time - Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997. BUT how have the British musical icon’s singles faired in the digital age?

With sales totalling nearly 5 million copies, you’d expect Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997 to be Elton’s most downloaded single too, wouldn’t you? Well, since 2004, when legal digital music services launched in the UK and the Official Charts Company started collecting digital sales data, this double A-side is actually only Elton’s ninth most downloaded single!

Elton’s biggest digital seller is the 2009 reworking of Tiny Dancer – retitled Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) - by Ironik and Chipmunk. The original version of the track was featured on Elton’s 1971 album, Madman Across The Water, although now often recognised a bona fide Elton classic, was never actually released as a single in the UK the first time around. However the 2009 version peaked at Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart, and has sold 238,000 copies to date. The 1971 version of the track is also at Number 6 in our countdown, you may remember it prompting a mass tour bus sing-a-long (and rightly so!) in the coming of age rock ‘n’ roll movie Almost Famous (2000) featuring Kate Hudson.

#ChartFact: Tiny Dancer can count a number of celebrity fans including legendary Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and boyband 5ive’s Abz Love.Watch Dave Grohl covering Tiny Dancer below:

With a digital sales tally of 182,000 copies, at Number 2 on Elton John’s Official Top 40 Most Downloaded Tracks is Ghetto Gospel with Tupac Shakur. Released in the UK in 2005 (where it peaked at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart) the track was the second single to be released from Tupac’s posthumous 2004 album, Loyal To The Game. Ghetto Gospel was produced by Eminem, who added in samples from Elton’s 1971 track Indian Summer. Like Tiny Dancer, Indian Summer is also taken from Madman Across The Water, and was also not previously released as a single in the UK.

#ChartFact: Indian Summer is unsurprisingly popular to the people of the UK! There are no less than three different tracks called Indian Summer that have charted on the Official Singles Chart.

At Number 3 is Elton’s first ever Official Singles Chart hit – Your Song (180,000 digital sales). Originally released in 1971, Your Song initially peaked at Number 7. It has re-entered the Official Singles Chart Top 75 on two other occasions in 2002 thanks to its starring role in the film Moulin Rouge (where it peaked at Number 4), and again in 2010 (reaching 61).

Your Song has also been covered by everyone from Donny Osmond to Andy Williams, Rod Stewart to Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney), Boyzone and perhaps most notably, gave Ellie Goulding her biggest UK hit to date.

#ChartFact: With digital sales of 758,000, Ellie Goulding has sold even more downloads of her cover of Your Song than Elton has himself of the original, bringing this classic to a whole new generation of music fans.

And finally, completing the Top 5 is Rocket Man (Elton’s second single to chart in the UK) which is at Number 4 with 101,000 digital sales, and Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the 1994 Disney masterpiece The Lion King (Number 5 with 98,000 digital sales).

#ChartFact: Rocket Man is the Elton tune of choice for 2013’s hottest producer, Naughty Boy.


You can see the full Top 40 below:

1 TINY DANCER (HOLD ME CLOSER) IRONIK / CHIPMUNK / ELTON JOHN (238.000)
2 GHETTO GOSPEL 2PAC FT ELTON JOHN (182.000)
3 YOUR SONG ELTON JOHN (180.000)
4 ROCKET MAN ELTON JOHN (101.000)
5 CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT ELTON JOHN (98.000)
6 TINY DANCER ELTON JOHN
7 I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLUES ELTON JOHN
8 STEP INTO CHRISTMAS ELTON JOHN
9 SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK/CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 ELTON JOHN
10 I'M STILL STANDING ELTON JOHN
11 SACRIFICE ELTON JOHN
12 CANDLE IN THE WIND ELTON JOHN
13 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART ELTON JOHN
14 ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE ELTON JOHN
15 CROCODILE ROCK ELTON JOHN
16 DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME GEORGE MICHAEL FT ELTON JOHN
17 CIRCLE OF LIFE ELTON JOHN
18 SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD BLUE FT ELTON JOHN
19 BENNY AND THE JETS ELTON JOHN
20 GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD ELTON JOHN
21 DANIEL ELTON JOHN
22 SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD ELTON JOHN
23 DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME ELTON JOHN
24 ELECTRICITY ELTON JOHN
25 SATURDAY NIGHTS ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING ELTON JOHN
26 I WANT LOVE ELTON JOHN
27 NIKITA ELTON JOHN
28 SAD ELTON JOHN VS PNAU
29 SONG FOR GUY ELTON JOHN
30 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM ELTON JOHN
31 SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT ELTON JOHN
32 SAD SONGS (SAY SO MUCH) ELTON JOHN
33 BLUE EYES ELTON JOHN
34 THE ONE ELTON JOHN
35 THIS TRAIN DON'T STOP THERE ANYMORE ELTON JOHN
36 MONA LISAS AND MAD HATTERS ELTON JOHN
37 KISS THE BRIDE ELTON JOHN
38 HEALING HANDS ELTON JOHN
39 PINBALL WIZARD ELTON JOHN
40 CALLING IT CHRISTMAS JOSS STONE & ELTON JOHN

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-new ... aled-2484/

[Nackar]

Can You Feel the Love Tonight is currently #3 on Japanese iTunes

[lucad]

LION KING UK autocertifications


ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - THE LION KING - OST
Platinum Certification (Album) 01 December 1994
PHONOGRAM (MERCURY)
Released 10 October 1994

ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST - THE LION KING
Silver Certification (Album) 22 July 2013
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (WALT DISNEY)
Released 06 February 2006 (new edition?)

VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE LION KING SING-ALONG
Silver Certification (Album) 22 July 2013
PICKWICK (DISNEY)
Released 01 October 1994

FIRST AID KIT - THE LION'S ROAR
Silver Certification (Album) 05 July 2013
WICHITA RECORDINGS (WICHITA RECORDINGS)
Released 23 January 2012

VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE LION KING - ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING
Silver Certification (Album) 24 December 2004
WARNER (WSM)
Released 08 November 2004

WALT DISNEY - THE LION KING READ-ALONG
Silver Certification (Album) 01 January 1995
PICKWICK (PICKWICK/DISNEY)
Released 01 September 1994

[lucad]

Sir Elton this week honoured with The First ever BRIT ICON Award. http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-new ... ward-2463/

[lucad]

From Billboard, about Tribute ALBUMS:
"Here’s a quick history of multi-artist tribute albums on The Billboard 200. The first to appear on The Billboard 200 were A Tribute To Woody Guthrie—Part One and Part Two (April 1972). The first to crack the top 40 was Deadicated (a tribute to Grateful Dead, May 1991). The first to crack the top 20 was Two Rooms—Celebrating The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin (November 1991). The first to crack the top 10 was the aforementioned Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles (October 1993)".

[lucad]

BPI has introduced a new auto-certication system for uk sales, counted from 1994. So many albums will be updated, many catalog albums never certificated will be counted from 1994.
Here's some new ones

Silver (> 60.000)
ELTON JOHN - CAPTAIN FANTASTIC & BROWN DIRT COWBOY
Silver Certification (Album) 22 July 2013
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ROCKET)
(the original one? the deluxe version? both? we don't know)

ELTON JOHN - THE CAPTAIN & THE KID
Silver Certification (Album) 22 July 2013
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (MERCURY)
Released 18 September 2006

Silver Singles (>200.000)
ELTON JOHN - ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE
Silver Certification (Single) 22 July 2013
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ROCKET)

Gold Video (>25.000)
ELTON JOHN - GREATEST HITS - LIVE
Gold Certification (VIDEO) 22 July 2013
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (MERCURY)
Released 19 May 2003

Gold Single (>400.000)
2PAC FT ELTON JOHN - GHETTO GOSPEL
Gold Certification (Single) 22 July 2013
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (POLYDOR)

Waiting for entire UK catalog updated.

[lucad]

Ellie Goulding's version of Your Song has sold 755,326 units only in UK.
Probably the best selling Elton's cover in UK

[lucad]

UK certfication for 200.000 units sold of the single
IRONIK/CHIPMUNK/ELTON JOHN - TINY DANCER (HOLD ME CLOSER)
Silver Certification (Single) 22 July 2013
WARNER MUSIC (ASYLUM)
Released in 2010, it's a rap single and elton is featured with the chorus of the original Tiny Dancer 1971 version

[lucad]

"Sir Elton John’s double A-side, Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind '97, remains the UK’s biggest selling single of all-time. It has clocked up nearly 5 million sales since its release sixteen years ago this month"

[lucad]

I agree.

[chartobserver]

In Feb 2012 there was the last time on Billboard that sales of THE UNION were published officially. At that time it were 325k in physical sales alone and it had weekly physical shipments of approximately 500-1000copies - please note that at that time it already was one year and a half in the shops. Catalog sales slowed down afterwards, so you have to assume, that there were less than 500sales a week from then on.

But you have to add download sales to these numbers (AMAZON, iTunes etc). I think in Feb 2012 THE UNION already exceeded the 400k mark incl. digital sales. Now you maybe have a few more sold units. Maybe 420-450k. But 384k is too less. Probably old numbers.

[lucad]

Thank you, interesting. I don't know if this total is updated. I think The Union is more than 425k, because is a good catalog seller. Let's see When diving will be released if billboard gives a different total.

[mansfield]

http://www.noise11.com/news/katy-perry- ... 3-20130803


Katy Perry Is The Biggest Seller With A New Album Still To Come In 2013
by PAUL CASHMERE on AUGUST 3, 2013

Based on the previous album sales of all of the artists yet to release in 2013, Katie’s last album sold more than the previous albums of Justin Timberlake, Elton John, Drake, The Lumineers and Luke Bryan.

Perry’s ‘Teenage Dream’ (2010) has sold 2.7m to date. That is more than Justin Timberlake ‘The 20/20 Experience’ (2013) with 2.1m sales, Drake ‘Take Care’ (2011) and Luke Bryan ‘Tailgates & Tanlines’ (2011) with 2m sales and The Lumineers ‘The Lumineers’ (2012) with 1.3m sales

Katy Perry will release ‘Prism’ in October, Justin Timberlake has ‘The 20/20 Experience 2’ and Drake has ‘Nothing Was The Same’ in October and The Lumineers ‘Deluxe Edition’ and Luke Bryan’s ‘Crash My Party’ will be released in September.

Other major acts with new albums on the way include Backstreet Boys ‘In A World Like This’ (last album sold 111,000), Ashanti ‘Braveheart’ (previous 295,000), Nine Inch Nails ‘Hestitation Marks’ (previous 113,000), Keith Urban ‘Fuse’ (previous 743,000), Sheryl Crow ‘Feels Like Home’ (previous 219,000), Jack Johnson ‘From Here To Now To You’ (previous 837,000), Elton John ‘Diving Board’ (384,000), Kings Of Leon ‘Mechanical Bull’ (728,000) and Sting ‘The Last Ship’ (previous 114,000).

SO "The Union" has sold 384.000 copies in the USA

[thebigham]

8/10 BB200:

1 ISL 97 JOHN*ELTON ROCKET MAN-NUMBER 1'S 3,827 +119% 1,744 1,071,835 Gold

[lucad]

Absurd in my opinion compare download sales with single/cd sales!
(also, the cost of a vinyl or cd is higher).
This is the chart;

VINYL / CD:
108, Elvis Presley
91, James Brown
74, Ray Charles
73, Aretha Franklin
71, the Beatles
67, Elton John
63, Stevie Wonder
----

DOWNLOAD:
206, "Glee" Cast
119, Lil Wayne
79, Jay-Z

[thebigham]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... he-hot-100

Most appearances on the Hot 100:

206, "Glee" Cast
119, Lil Wayne
108, Elvis Presley
91, James Brown
79, Jay-Z
74, Ray Charles
73, Aretha Franklin
71, the Beatles
67, Elton John
63, Stevie Wonder

[BadMan125]

now at # 19

Hmm, he might get his 40th top 10 hit...

[mansfield]

now at # 19

[lucad]

Elton John Extends Record For Most Adult Contemporary Hits

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... orary-hits

'Home Again,' the first single from his upcoming Capitol Records debut, pushes him further into the lead for the most AC entries in the chart's 52-year history

Elton John pads his mark for the most appearances in the 52-year history of Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, as "Home Again" soars in at No. 21. The song marks his 69th entry on the ranking.

The start of "Home" marks John's highest on Adult Contemporary since "You Can Make History (Young Again)" launched at No. 11 in 1996. Until this week, John had last graced the list with "Electricity," which reached No. 17 in August 2009. The new entry ends his longest absence from the chart since he first appeared with the eventual No. 9-peaking "Your Song" the week of Dec. 26, 1970.

"Home" previews John's 30th studio album, "The Diving Board," due Sept. 24. It's his first set to be released on Capitol Records. "[Bernie Taupin and I] wrote 11 songs … and recorded them in four days," John says of the collection. Mixing gospel, blues, jazz, brass band, pop and even a waltz, it's "everything I love about American music," adds John, who was forced to postpone upcoming touring plans after being felled by appendicitis last week.

In addition to holding the record for the most Adult Contemporary chart visits, John also boasts the most No. 1s (15, a mark he shares with the Carpenters) and top 10s (39). When Billboard celebrated the survey's 50th anniversary in 2011, John was honored as the chart's all-time top performer.

Here's an updated look at the artists with the most entries in the Adult Contemporary chart's archives:

69, Elton John
64, Barbra Streisand
58, Neil Diamond
53, Elvis Presley
50, Barry Manilow
49, Johnny Mathis
48, Frank Sinatra
47, Kenny Rogers
46, Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass
45, Dionne Warwick

"I'm counting on a memory to get me out of here..."