That gives us a pool of 109 Presley songs for our study. 41-100 range, but they were too far down the chart to be considered “hits.”) 40 and above on the “Top/Hot 100.” (Elvis had many other recordings that charted in the No.

For our “study,” we’ll define “Presley hit records” as his songs that reached No. Just for the fun of it, let’s see what happens when Henard and Rossetti’s research boundaries and theme categories are applied only to Presley hit records from 1956 through 1977.

Of course, by starting with music in 1960, the study excluded Presley’s phenomenal chart success in the 1950s. During the troubled 1970s, themes of nostalgia, rebellion, and jadedness ruled.” 1 songs during the two decades in which Elvis was active, the researchers concluded the 1960s were “marked by themes such as pain, nostalgia, and rebellion. In other words, while the tune, the beat, and the performance influenced the success of songs through the decades, the lyrics were important too. 1 Billboard songs from 1960 through 2009, a 50-year period, the researchers concluded there was a “rough correlation between the social tempos of the various decades and the prevalence of these themes: Loss, desire, aspiration, breakup, pain, inspiration, nostalgia, rebellion, jaded, desperation, escapism and confusion.” Rossetti of North Carolina State University on nearly 1,000 songs that topped Billboard magazine’s “Hot 100” singles chart. The article instead describes a study by David H. (Presley’s “How Great Thou Art” was a Grammy winning album that year, but it was “Crying in the Chapel” that was a Billboard chart hit in 1965.) Let’s also lay aside the article’s puzzling headline, “How Mariah Carey Topped Elvis Presley,” which has no relation to the article’s subject. For starters, let’s overlook his getting wrong the title of Elvis' 1965 hit hymn. Lee Dye brought up that interesting question in an article posted on ABC News’ website.

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