Description
Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group released Hit Story, a three-CD collection containing 80 Elvis Presley hits.
Related events
- American filmmaker Adam Muskiewicz launched the website elviswanted.com as part of a documentary investigating the myth that Elvis Presley is still alive, offering a $3 million reward to anyone who could find Elvis alive. The film was scheduled for release in August 2007 to mark the 30th anniversary of Presley's death.
- Elvis Presley's two-disc CD and DVD Essential was released in Australia.
- Nearly 26 years after Elvis Presley's death, radio stations and other media began reporting that BMG/RCA had discovered a previously unheard song, “I'm a Roustabout.” The song had originally been commissioned and written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell for the 1964 film Roustabout but was not used. Winfield Scott found the original acetate recording in the basement of his home in New Jersey, and BMG/RCA subsequently added it to the album Elvis, 2nd to None.
- Elvis Presley posthumously reached number one on the UK album chart with the album “The King”.
- The compilation album “Elvis the King”, containing eighteen of Elvis Presley's greatest singles, reached number one on the UK chart.
- Twenty-five years after Elvis Presley's death, an album containing his 30 US No. 1 singles was released, with "A Little Less Conversation" included as a bonus track.
- Elvis Presley's album “Elv1s 30 No. 1 Hits” reached No. 1 in 17 countries, including the United States, 25 years after Elvis's death. The album debuted at No. 1.
- The album Junichiro Koizumi Presents: My Favorite Elvis Songs, featuring a selection of Elvis Presley songs compiled by the Japanese prime minister, was released in Japan.