As to your ques­tion re­garding why more RIAA awards weren’t is­sued during Elvis’ everyday living­time. The an­swer is pretty easy. RCA was al­Completely ready is­suing in-residence gold records normally, so there re­ally wasn’t any have to pursue the RIAA awards, al­though, sometimes it would appear which they were pur­sued. https://vinyl-record-display75100.develop-blog.com/35148932/top-what-is-a-gold-record-award-secrets