Elvis Presley albums discography

This is a discography of albums by Elvis Presley.

RIAA certifications and sales
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) first began tracking sales of Elvis Presley in 1958, who did not receive his first Gold Album award until 1958. In August 1992, he was awarded with 110 gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums and singles, the largest presentation of gold and platinum record awards in history. According to the latest data from the RIAA website, Elvis has a total of 90 gold, 53 platinum and 25 multi-platinum album awards by the organization.

According to RIAA, he has sold over 136 million albums units only in the United States, making him the second best selling solo albums artist of all time in this country, second overall, behind Garth Brooks and The Beatles. According to Presley's record label, RCA, their estimation is the best selling artist of all time, with sales to over 1.5 billion records worldwide in all formats (600 million only in the United States).

Posthumous compilation albums
Notes
 * A Half soundtrack album/half compilation of previously issued non-movie recordings.
 * B Compilation issued during Presley's lifetime featuring one or more previously unreleased recordings
 * C Side 2 of Mahalo from Elvis contains non-live tracks from film soundtracks

Follow That Dream Records
FTD (Follow That Dream), Sony Music's Official Elvis Presley Collectors label was established in 1999 to serve the dedicated Elvis collector and to complement the commercial and artistic level of RCA's retail release schedule by issuing repertoire that is considered of interest to serious Elvis fans and collectors, material that is generally not part of mainstream RCA label releases to the public at large. There are the original Collectors CDs with CDs ranging from soundboard recorded concerts (Recorded from the mixing desk in mono) to full RCA professionally recorded concerts in stereo and CDs consisting of unreleased material from recording sessions – Such as The Jungle Room Sessions and Memphis Sessions etc., later FTD introduced the Elvis Classic Album Series where they release the original Elvis albums in deluxe 7" size packaging with a booklet and a usually a second CD of out takes from the same period as the recordings on the album. There is also the Movie Soundtrack Series usually released as a single CD but again in deluxe 7" packaging with booklet.