As to your ques­tion re­garding why much more RIAA awards weren’t is­sued through Elvis’ lifestyle­time. The an­swer is very easy. RCA was al­ready is­suing in-dwelling gold records usually, so there re­ally wasn’t any have to go after the RIAA awards, al­although, sometimes it would seem that they were pur­sued. https://martinrjynb.estate-blog.com/28482398/not-known-facts-about-what-is-a-gold-record-award