Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1955

Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1955 is made up of three year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales, disc jockey plays, and juke box plays.[1]

Webb Pierce's "In the Jailhouse Now" ranked as the year's No. 1 song on all three charts. His record of "I Don't Care" ranked No. 2 on the disk jockey and juke box charts and No. 3 on the retail chart. In all, Pierce had four records that ranked in the top 10 on at least one of the year-end charts.

Kitty Wells' "Making Believe" ranked No. 2 on the year-end retail chart and No. 3 on the juke box chart. The year's other top hits included: (1) Carl Smith's "Loose Talk" which ranked No. 4 on all three charts; and (2) Porter Wagoner's "A Satisfied Mind" which ranked No. 3 on the disk jockey chart and No. 5 on the other two charts.

Retail Disk jockey Juke box Title Artist(s) Label
111"In the Jailhouse Now"Webb PierceDecca
283"Making Believe"Kitty WellsDecca
322"I Don't Care"Webb PierceDecca
444"Loose Talk"Carl SmithColumbia
535"A Satisfied Mind"Porter WagonerRCA Victor
6198"The Cattle Call"Eddy Arnold, Hugo WinterhalterRCA Victor
756"Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young"Faron YoungCapitol
8910"If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')"Faron YoungCapitol
9148"Yellow Roses"Hank SnowRCA Victor
101212"I've Been Thinking"Eddy ArnoldRCA Victor
11177"More and More"Webb PierceDecca
12713"Love, Love, Love"Webb PierceDecca
132211"A Satisfied Mind"Red & Betty FoleyRCA Victor
14NR21"Ballad of Davy Crockett"Tennessee Ernie FordCapitol
151619"Just Call Me Lonesome"Eddy ArnoldRCA Victor
161520"There She Goes"Carl SmithColumbia
17NR14"Are You Mine?"Ginny Wright, Tom TallFabor
18NR18"A Satisfied Mind"Jean ShepardCapitol
191115"Let Me Go, Lover"Hank SnowRCA Victor
201016"All Right"Faron YoungCapitol
21NRNR"Sixteen Tons"Tennessee Ernie FordCapitol
22NRNR"Kisses Don't Lie"Carl SmithColumbia
231322"Hearts of Stone"Red FoleyDecca
24NRNR"This Ole House"Stuart HamblenRCA Victor
25NRNR"Kentuckian Song"Eddy ArnoldRCA Victor
NRNR17"Making Believe"J. WorkDot
NRNR19"Just Call Me Lonesome"Eddy ArnoldRCA Victor
NR2123"Are You Mine?"M. Lorrie, B. DeValDecca
NR1824"Would You Mind?"Hank SnowRCA Victor
NRNR25"I Don't Hurt Anymore"Hank SnowRCA Victor
NR20NR"Cuzz You're So Sweet"Simon CrumCapitol
NR23NR"That Do Make It So Nice"Eddy ArnoldRCA Victor
NR24NR"Yonder Comes a Sucker"Jim ReevesRCA Victor

See also

References

  1. "1955's Top C & W Records". The Billboard. January 7, 1956. p. 20.
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