Elvis Aaron Presley had 149 songs to appear on Billboard’s Hot 100 Pop Chart in America. Of these, 114 were in the top forty, 40 were in the top ten, and 18 went to number one.

You won't find Mariah Carey's name mentioned in the news announcement at the official website of Elvis Presley Enterprises, just some timely stats asserting that Presley should be credited for 18 No. 1 singles during his lifetime. So has Carey merely tied the King, not slipped by him, on the list of all-time hit makers? "They're wrong," Geoff Mayfield, the king of Billboard's hallowed pop charts, said Friday. Presley took 17 singles to No. 1. The discrepancy stems from the double-sided hit "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" and partly from the fact that the Hot 100 chart, which has long been the industry standard for such accolades, didn't exist in 1956 when that single came out. The pre-1958 numbers that appear in Joel Whitburn's series of pop music chart stats often reflect a combination of listings that predated the Hot 100. Like the baseball-stat freaks who argue that Babe Ruth's home run record should still stand because the season was lengthened after his career ended, some Elvis fans, and the Elvis Presley Enterprises site, consider "Don't Be Cruel" and "Hound Dog" as two No. 1 hits. Whitburn's "Top Pop Singles, 1955-2006," drawn from Billboard's charts, lists it as a single entry, and Mayfield said it's the only example on which fans and Billboard experts differ. But as far as Billboard is concerned, since both songs appeared on a single disc, it's one hit. Period.

Originally posted by Angelo Who?

Originally posted by Luis Anyway, "Touch My Body" is a forgettable song... nobody will remember it within 5 years.

I don't think that's true. The only reason that the Beatles and Elvis might have MORE recognizable songs is because they've been pimped out posthumously. It's not like any of us were alive and listening to the radio back then to have a memory solely from that. It's the fact that we've heard these songs all over the place after they already ran their course.

For some reason, women don't get the same attention that men do when it comes to musical praise. I don't know that many Aretha Franklin or Tina Turner songs, and they're supposed to be the queens. Same goes for the Supremes. Their music doesn't get exposed the way Elvis and the Beatles' music does. I really think that there's an underlying sexism in the way we look at celebrities when it comes to women. Everyone is always much harder on women, wanting them to fail and discrediting their achievements.

Originally posted by Angelo Who?

Originally posted by Nick But anyway, it seems like Elvis' camp are gonna go down kicking and screaming, because none of this will matter when Mariah gets #19 and they don't have a leg to stand on anymore.