As for your ques­tion re­garding why more RIAA awards weren’t is­sued in the course of Elvis’ existence­time. The an­swer is pretty easy. RCA was al­Completely ready is­suing in-dwelling gold records usually, so there re­ally wasn’t any should pursue the RIAA awards, al­while, sometimes it would seem they were pur­sued. https://ledzeppelingoldrecorddisp01985.blog-a-story.com/8932383/not-known-details-about-what-is-a-gold-record-award