Elvis Presley : 50 Australian Top Ten Hits 1956-1977 : On The State Charts

Week	NSW	VIC/TAS	QLD	SA	WA	National
1	7	7	13	13	25	9
2	11	13	14	16	25	17
3	17	12	19	17	23	20
4	18	17	19	24	27	24
5	35	27	28	27	49	36
6	50	43	34	29	60	52
7	55	54	54	42	101	68
8	98	59	78	82	91	91

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The relevance of each state

Western Australia [WA] (10%) and South Australia [SA] (7%) have much smaller populations (see below) than [QLD] Queensland and the other combined states of [NSW/ACT] and [VIC/TAS].

So these two states have a much smaller impact on total sales, and therefore the national chart.

This explains why with the much lower chart position in [WA] the national chart result was still No. 4.

In addition Western Australia [WA] is a huge part of Australia in land mass, as you can see from the image below. so making advertising even less viable. Clearly Sony do not do a lot based on the results we present for both Elvis By Request The Australian Edition CD and Elvis Presley : 50 Australia Top Ten Hits 1956-1977.

Population per Australian State and/or Territory

1. [NSW] New South Wales 7,247,700 32.23%
2. [VIC] Victoria 5,574,500 24.79%
3. [QLD] Queensland 4,513,000 20.7%
4. [WA] Western Australia 2,387,200 10.61%
5. [SA] South Australia 1,645,000 7.31%
6. [TAS] Tasmania 511,700 2.28%
7. [ACT] Australian Capital Territory 370,700 1.64%
8. Northern Territory 232,400 1.03%
9. Australian Antarctic Territory 1,000 0.0%
10. Jervis Bay Territory 495 0.0%
    

Total : Australia : 22,485,300

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