GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 25: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. Sir Elton John performs on stage during Day 5 of ... [+]
Elton John recently retired from the road following his historic Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. While he might not be traveling around the world to play to huge crowds anymore, he’s still making music. Perhaps even more importantly, millions of fans of the singer-songwriter are still listening to his work, both old and new, and they’re keeping the piano player rising on the charts.
The EGOT winner is currently climbing on the weekly charts in America. He’s up on a number of tallies, as interest in his catalog filled with smash hits remains strong.
John is succeeding this week with his greatest hits collection Diamonds. Consumption of that project is nearly level from last frame, according to Luminate. The title moved 18,061 units in the U.S., with 659 of those being purchases.
That almost-unchanged sum is enough for Diamonds to come close to returning to the top 40 region on the Billboard 200, the all-genre, all-consumption ranking of the biggest albums in the U.S. This frame, the title keeps at No. 42, though it once rose as high as No. 7.
While Diamonds is a non-mover on the main albums chart, it’s rising on two other tallies that use similar methodologies. The compilation breaks back into the top 10 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums list this frame, jumping from No. 11 to No. 9.
Over on the Top Rock Albums chart, the set’s performance is similar. Diamonds pushes from No. 9 to No. 8 this time around.
Diamons has reached the No. 1 spot on both of Billboard’s rock-focused albums charts. It’s now spent 339 weeks on all the aforementioned tallies, and it shows no sign of stepping off these rankings anytime soon.
John’s most successful greatest hits compilation has spent the same length of time on the U.K. albums chart, but it’s much more popular across the pond than it is in America. This frame, the set ascends to No. 11, almost finding its way back into the top 10 once again.
