 # 157
Singles Artist of the Year
 Elvis Costello & The
Attractions hit the Top 40 with "Everyday I Write The
Book"
from the LP Punch
The Clock.
 # 180
Singles Artist of the Year
 # 103
Singles Artist of the Year
 Costello hit the Top 40 with
"Veronica."
The video for "Veronica" won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video and was nominated for Breakthrough Video.
Costello was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music
Performance (Mighty
Like A Rose).
Costello was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With
Vocals
("God Give Me Strength" with Burt
Bacharach).
Ranked # 38 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 49 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 Costello won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With
Vocals
("I Still Have That Other Girl"
with Burt Bacharach).
VH1: 100
Greatest Albums included My Aim Is True at # 80.
Costello was
nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("45"), for Best Rock Album (When
I Was Cruel), and Best Alternative Music
Performance (Cruel
Smile).
Elvis Costello &
The Attractions were inducted into the Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame.
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included This
Year's Model (1978) at # 98,
Imperial Bedroom (1982) at # 166,
My Aim Is True (1977) at # 168,
and Armed Forces (1979) at # 482.
Rolling Stone:
The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time included Costello at # 80.
 Costello released Delivery
Man.
Elvis was nominated for 4 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Let's Misbehave"), Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("Monkey To Man" with
The Imposters), for Best Rock Album (Delivery
Man), and Best
Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television
or Other Visual Media (awarded to the
songwriter)
("The Scarlet Tide" with Henry
Burnett).
 Costello released My
Flame Burns Blue - a live LP with the Metropole
Orkest (a jazz orchestra from the
Netherlands).
Elvis released The
River In Reverse (Billboard peak: # 103 - Rolling Stone:  ) with Allen
Toussaint.
Elvis could be heard on Tony Bennett's LP Duets:
American Classic on the track "Are
You Havin' Any Fun?."
 Elvis was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (The
River In Reverse with Allen
Toussaint).
Elvis could be heard on the
tribute LP A
Tribute To Joni Mitchell with the
track "Edith And The Kingpen."
 The
Best Of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years (Billboard peak: # 110) and Rock
& Roll Music were
released.
Elvis could be heard on the
tribute LP Anchored
In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash on the track
"Ring Of Fire."
 Elvis release Momofuku (Entertainment
Weekly:
A-).
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