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Johnny Cash had three of the year's top 10 country & western singles: "Guess Things Happen That Way"/"Come in, Stranger" at No. 3; "The Ways of a Woman in Love"/"You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven" at No. 6; and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" at No. 7. RCA Victor led all labels with 13 of the top 50 singles.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1959. Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" ranked as the year's No. 1 country and western record. It was released in April 1959, spent 10 weeks at the No. 1 spot, and remained on Billboard ' s country and western chart for 21 weeks.
The three songs would share the record for more than fifty years until Florida Georgia Line spent a 22nd week at number one on the Hot Country Songs listing in 2013 with "Cruise". "In the Jailhouse Now" was also the longest-running chart-topper of 1955 on both the best sellers and jockeys charts, spending 20 weeks and 15 weeks respectively in ...
In the first issue of Billboard of 1950, Christmas songs were at number one on two charts, with "Blue Christmas" by Ernest Tubb in the top spot on the juke box chart and Gene Autry 's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" atop the jockeys chart. The number one on the best sellers chart was "Slipping Around" by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy ...
Seven acts achieved their first number ones in 1953: the Carlisles, Goldie Hill, Jim Reeves, the duo of Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky, the Davis Sisters, Mitchell Torok, and Hank Locklin. [4] In addition to having his first number one as a performer with "Caribbean", Torok also wrote the song "Mexican Joe", which gave Jim Reeves his first chart ...
Bandcamp. Duster is an American indie rock band from San Jose, California that was formed in 1996. The group has consisted of multi-instrumentalists Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini for most of its history; Albertini left the band in 2022. Duster were closely associated with the burgeoning slowcore and space rock revival ...
The artists with the most songs in the 1950 year-end charts were Red Foley with eight songs, Eddy Arnold with seven, Ernest Tubb with five, Hank Williams with four, and the duet pairing of Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely with four. [1] Billboard also ranked the year's top artists as follows: (1) Red Foley, (2) Ernest Tubb, (3) Hank Williams ...
Billboard. number-one country songs of 1949. Hank Williams (third from right) and his Drifting Cowboys band reached number one for the first time in 1949. In 1949 Billboard magazine published three charts covering the best-performing country music songs in the United States. At the start of the year, the magazine published two charts covering ...