Elv1s: 30

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Elvis: 30 #1 Hits

Studio album by Elvis Presley
Released	September 24, 2002
Recorded	January 10, 1956 – October 29, 1976
Genre	Rock
Length	79:19
Label	RCA
Producer(s)	?
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Elvis Presley chronology
Elvis Presley: Live Musicbank (2002)	Elvis: 30 #1 Hits (2002)	2nd to None (2003)

ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits, released in late 2002, was the first Elvis album to go straight to #1 in the Billboard charts, and his 10th album chartopper since 1956. In compiling the album, four different charts were used--Billboard, Cashbox, New Musical Express and Record Retailer. The album has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, topping twenty-six charts around the world. As of December 2005, it has been certified as 4X Platinum by the RIAA.

The album actually contains another number one hit, the smash hit A Little Less Conversation being added at the last minute, following its reaching of the top of the UK charts. It also includes classics such as Hound Dog, Suspicious Minds and Can't Help Falling in Love. The follow up to this album was 2nd to None, which was a collection of Elvis' songs which didn't make it to number-one.

By reaching the top of the Billboard charts, the album made Elvis Presley the only solo artist in US recording history to reach the top of the album charts in four different decades, the others being the fifties, the sixties and seventies.

It also ensured another record for Elvis, that of the longest span ever achieved between #1 album chartoppers, or forty six years between his first #1 album, entitled "Elvis Presley", and this 2002 release.