Elton John (album)

Elton John
Studio album by Elton John
Released	10 April 1970 (1970-04-10)
Recorded	January 1970
Studio	Trident, London
Genre	Soft rock
Length	39:27
Label	Uni DJM
Producer	Gus Dudgeon
Elton John chronology
Empty Sky (1969) Elton John (1970) Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
Singles from Elton John
"Border Song" Released: 3 April 1970 "Your Song" Released: 26 October 1970

Elton John is the second^[a] studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John. It was released on 10 April 1970 through DJM Records. Including John's breakthrough single "Your Song", the album helped establish his career during the rise of the singer-songwriter era of popular music.

In the US, Elton John was certified gold in February 1971 by the RIAA. In the same year, it was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2003, the album was ranked number 468 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. On 27 November 2012, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as an album cited as exhibiting "qualitative or historical significance".^[1]

Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).