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Elvis Presley's Where No One Stands Alone is His First #1 on the Billboard Christian Chart

New Elvis Album Also Enters #1 on the Billboard Physical Chart & Billboard Vinyl Albums Chart Top 10 Album in the UK

August 20, 2018-New York, NY- has entered the Billboard Top Christian album chart at #1--a first for the legendary artist--with Where No One Stands Alone, a groundbreaking new album on RCA/Legacy celebrating the singer's everlasting love of . The new collection is also #1 on the Billboard Physical Albums chart and the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart. The album debuted in the Top 10 in the UK, marking his 53rd UK Top 10 album.

While three contemporary gospel albums recorded by Elvis-- (1960, RIAA Platinum), (1967, RIAA 3x Platinum) and He Touched Me (1972, RIAA Platinum)--were released during the artist's lifetime, Where No One Stands Alone is the first Elvis album to hit #1 on the Billboard Christian album chart. Elvis Presley's religious recordings--singles, EPs, albums, compilations- -have sold approximately 300 million copies in the US alone with "(There'll Be) (For Me)" and "" each selling more than 20 million copies. Ten Elvis albums have hit #1 on the while seven Elvis album titles have reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart.

Produced by Joel Weinshanker, and Andy Childs, Elvis Presley - Where No One Stands Alone introduces newly-recorded instrumentation and backing vocal contributions from music legends who'd performed on-stage and/or in-the-studio with Elvis. It also includes a reimagined duet with Elvis and his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, on the album’s title track and spiritual touchstone.

Background vocalists on the album include: Darlene Love (who first sang with Elvis on his 1968 NBC television special); Dr. (who, with , sang with Elvis on-stage beginning in 1969); Terry Blackwood, Armond Morales and Jim Murray (members of , who sang on Elvis' How Great Thou Art – with the title song winning the 1967 Grammy for Best Sacred Performance); and Donnie Sumner, Bill Baize, Ed Hill and Larry Strickland (members of Presley's longtime backup group, The Stamps).

Elvis Presley - Where No One Stands Alone provides new musical perspectives on 14 of the singer's favorite pieces of gospel music, from the reverential to the celebratory, with song selections including Presley's beloved enduring gospel classics (the 1965 Top 5 smash "Crying In The Chapel," "How Great Thou Art," "You'll Never Walk Alone"), praise-filled gospel-rockers (Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller's "Saved") and traditional and spirituals ("So High," "Stand By Me," "In The Garden," "").

Elvis Presley – Where No One Stands Alone is available now: https://Elvis.lnk.to/WNOSA!PR2 For future Elvis Presley music news: WEBSITE: www.ElvisTheMusic.com : www.Graceland.com FACEBOOK: www.Facebook.com/ElvisTheMusic NEWSLETTER: https://Elvis.lnk.to/nl_form!pr2

For more information: Maria C. Malta, Legacy Media Relations, 212.833.6511; [email protected]