Elvis Presley discography
Elvis Presley discography
Elvis in 1970
Releases
↙Studio albums
23
↙Live albums
7
↙Compilation albums
11
↙Extended plays
3
↙Singles
102
↙Soundtracks
19
↙No.1 Single
33
References and footnotes
The official American discography of Elvis
Presley starts on July 19, 1954, with the re-
lease of his first commercial single, and ends
in February 1978, with the release of "Un-
chained Melody" backed with "Softly As I
Leave You," the final single attached to a pro-
ject Presley himself knew about in the plan-
ning stages prior to his death in August 1977,
the concert album Elvis In Concert. Without
including album reissues, during this period
American Presley releases consisted of 102
singles, 30 Extended Play singles, and 72 al-
bums on RCA Records; four albums on the
Pickwick budget label; and five singles on the
Sun Records label.
Breakdown
Albums
The album list categorizes releases into the
following
subsets:
studio
albums;
soundtracks; live albums; compilations; and
budget issues, mostly on the RCA subsidiary
label, Camden. Standard compilations sold at
regular retail prices, and were often collec-
tions of singles or, in the case of A Date with
Elvis, For LP Fans Only, and Elvis for Every-
one, were product assembled by RCA when
Presley was either performing his military
service, or concentrating on his film and
soundtrack work. Budget issues sold at re-
duced retail prices, and were of shorter than
standard running time. When RCA instituted
its compact disc reissue program in the
1990s, it ignored the budget issues, and real-
ized a different series of compilations. Not in-
cluded in this discography are "RCA Special
Product" releases made through Time-Life,
Reader’s Digest, or through album clubs.
The 1969 double album From Memphis to
Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis was reissued
one year later, separated into the studio and
the concert disks, and appears on the disco-
graphy in its separated incarnation. The Hav-
ing Fun With Elvis On Stage album, originally
on the Colonel’s personal imprint