The Sun Collection
by Elvis Presley
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The Sun Collection is ranked 8th best out of 157 albums by Elvis Presley on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Elvis Presley is Elvis Presley which is ranked number 327 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,063.
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The Sun Collection track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Sun Collection rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | leniad | Top 301-400 Greatest Music Albums | 32/100 | - |
| 2026 |  AleJohnMari | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 58/100 | 41 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 27/100 | - |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 28 Music Albums of 1975 | 19/28 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | 2 My Chart 1950s Bonus | 1/3 | - |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1975 | 4/100 | - |
| 2026 |  imimesis | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 63/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 52 Music Albums of 1976 | 5/52 | - |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 99 Music Albums of 1975 | 83/99 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 132 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 470 | |||
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The Sun Collection ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/02/2026 07:49 | AndyLish79 | 505 | 81/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2026 08:06 |  JohnCanning1976 | 189 | 85/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2026 08:06 | mostlymor | 7,056 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 78.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.7.
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The Sun Collection forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/04/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5394): By O.T.
albummaster 04/11/2026 08:03 in Year Change Notices BestEverAlbums 12/01/2025 17:03 in Monthly overall chart movements - November 2025The Sun Collection comments
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The bing-bang of a way of life, think, be. An incomparable sound and a marvellous simplicity by a magician, Sam Philips. One exceptional voice absorbed by blues,country, for make something completely fresh, new, unrepeatable.
JohnCanning1976 04/10/2014 20:08 | #108976 | TOP COMMENT
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Listening to this album is like experiencing the birth of rock and roll. Genuinely exciting. (Edited)
O.T. 01/26/2016 12:14 | #157791 | TOP COMMENT
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I prefer the newer sleeve of the DLP edition, the huge portrait of Elvis, handcoloured, delivers an idea of Elvis before ELVIS. What we listen to seems like an accidental development, fractures of what was freely flowing in the (studio) air created a random formation. To the listener it appeared as a new form of beauty, a whole new culture, I guess. It surely opened the doors to the "Elvis the pelvis" we see on the original sleeve. But the magic of the moment is captured in those hedonistic but yet insecure early portraits of the later issue.
Bork TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/01/2010 22:48 | #10230 | TOP COMMENT
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Elvis is always Elvis, sure a lot of it sounds pretty dated, but he had a great voice and certainly could rock. Even though he got more interesting after the BBC Comeback Special, this is the cradle of rock n' roll, and The Sun Sessions is a better starting point than the self-titled full length album.
This falls under "historical relevancy" rather than most enjoyable listen today. I doubt very many people listen to this that often and would prefer listening to this rather than dozens and dozens of other albums ranked lower in the list. This includes the rolling stone critics that ranked this so high.
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