Elvis expected to beat The Beatles in autumn LP battle

Elvis Presley's upcoming greatest hits album is expected to become the biggest selling LP of the year.

HMV's Gennaro Castaldo says it should even outsell the 'ultimate Beatles' album, rumoured to be released in October.

Elvis' Number 1s LP is due out on September 23, helping mark 2002 as the 25th anniversary of Presley's death.

Castaldo told NME.COM: "The Elvis CD will have mass appeal.

"There are two streams of potential fans. The existing fans who will buy anything that is released, and younger fans who came to Elvis through the JXL remix.

"It made Elvis cool for a new generation. To a younger audience, he's now not just a name but an artist they can now relate to."

He says any Beatles album would also have huge appeal, but he expected Elvis to outsell them.

"It'll be a gentle rivalry, much the way it was in the '60s. It could drive sales of both rather than see one act damage the other. It's quite exciting to think the chart battles of the '60s are back."