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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | "In the Jailhouse Now" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 2 | 8 | 3 | "Making Believe" | Kitty Wells | Decca |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | "I Don't Care" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | "Loose Talk" | Carl Smith | Columbia |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | "A Satisfied Mind" | Porter Wagoner | RCA Victor |
| 6 | 19 | 8 | "The Cattle Call" | Eddy Arnold, Hugo Winterhalter | RCA Victor |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" | Faron Young | Capitol |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" | Faron Young | Capitol |
| 9 | 14 | 8 | "Yellow Roses" | Hank Snow | RCA Victor |
| 10 | 12 | 12 | "I've Been Thinking" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| 11 | 17 | 7 | "More and More" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 12 | 7 | 13 | "Love, Love, Love" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 13 | 22 | 11 | "A Satisfied Mind" | Red & Betty Foley | RCA Victor |
| 14 | NR | 21 | "Ballad of Davy Crockett" | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Capitol |
| 15 | 16 | 19 | "Just Call Me Lonesome" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| 16 | 15 | 20 | "There She Goes" | Carl Smith | Columbia |
| 17 | NR | 14 | "Are You Mine?" | Ginny Wright, Tom Tall | Fabor |
| 18 | NR | 18 | "A Satisfied Mind" | Jean Shepard | Capitol |
| 19 | 11 | 15 | "Let Me Go, Lover" | Hank Snow | RCA Victor |
| 20 | 10 | 16 | "All Right" | Faron Young | Capitol |
| 21 | NR | NR | "Sixteen Tons" | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Capitol |
| 22 | NR | NR | "Kisses Never Lie" | Carl Smith | Columbia |
| 23 | 13 | 22 | "Hearts of Stone" | Red Foley | Decca |
| 24 | NR | NR | "This Ole House" | Stuart Hamblen | RCA Victor |
| 25 | NR | NR | "Kentuckian Song" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| NR | NR | 17 | "Making Believe" | J. Work | Dot |
| NR | NR | 19 | "Just Call Me Lonesome" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| NR | 21 | 23 | "Are You Mine?" | M. Lorrie, B. DeVal | Decca |
| NR | 18 | 24 | "Would You Mind?" | Hank Snow | RCA Victor |
| NR | NR | 25 | "I Don't Hurt Anymore" | Hank Snow | RCA Victor |
| NR | 20 | NR | "Cuzz You're So Sweet" | Simon Crum | Capitol |
| NR | 23 | NR | "That Do Make It So Nice" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| NR | 24 | NR | "Yonder Comes a Sucker" | Jim Reeves | RCA Victor |
See also
- List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1955
- Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1955
- 1955 in country music
References
- "1955's Top C & W Records". The Billboard. January 7, 1956. p. 20.
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