Week Ending March 14, 2010: Hendrix Tops Elvis Posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:12pm PDT by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Valleys Of Neptune enters The Billboard 200 at #4, putting the rock legend back
in the top five nearly 40 years after he died at the tragically young age of 27. No other artist has cracked the top five this long after his death.
Elvis Presley is in second place. His Elvis: 2nd To None debuted at #3 in October 2003, a little more than 26 years after his death.
Hendrix is the second music legend to make the top five posthumously in the past two weeks. Johnny Cash bowed at #3 two weeks ago with American VI: Ain't No Grave. But Cash died less than seven years ago. It's more remarkable for an artist who died four decades ago to make significant chart waves...
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/45886/week-ending-march-14-2010-hendrix-tops-elvis/
