From TCM Archives... Elvis Presley's greatest hits collection has become his biggest selling album.
On the eve of what would have been The King's 68th birthday, record firm BMG said Elv1s: 30 No1 hits had beaten his previous best, the Elvis Christmas Album.
His number one hits package has sold more than nine million copies around the world.
The Christmas release - first issued in 1957 and re-released in 1973 - has not yet topped the eight million level.
Darren Henderson of BMG said: "This rounds up a phenomenal year for Elvis Presley proving that his music is indeed timeless.
"A new generation has discovered Elvis Presley and we look forward to continue supporting the influential role that Presley plays in music and culture."
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of Presley's death and saw him notch up a posthumous number one with A Little Less Conversation. It was his 18th number one, edging him ahead of The Beatles' 17.
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Elvis Presley holds the record for the most gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums and singles. He has a combined total of 257 certifications in the United States alone. He is way ahead of the second place Beatles who have a combined total of 148. Moreover in the four months after his death, an estimated 200 million Elvis records were sold all formats. This record sales phenomena has never been duplicated by any other artist in the history of popular music. This led to the 1982 Washington Post story which divulged that Presley had become the only artist to have sold over a billion records worlwide.
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Elvis Presley has sold the most albums worldwide with 1.6 billion albums.
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