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
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

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References

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