Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1962

This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1962.[1]

The year's No. 1 record was "Wolverton Mountain" by Claude King.[1] The record debuted on Billboard's country and western chart in May 1962, spent nine weeks at the No. 1 spot, and remained on the chart for 26 weeks.[1]

RCA Victor led all other labels with 13 records included on the year-end chart. Columbia Records followed with 10 records on the year-end chart.[1]

Rank Peak[note 1][2] Title Artist(s) Label
1 1 "Wolverton Mountain" Claude King Columbia
2 1 "Misery Loves Company" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor
3 1 "She Thinks I Still Care" George Jones United Artists
4 1 "Charlie's Shoes" Billy Walker Columbia
5 2 "Adios Amigo" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
6 3 "A Wound Time Can't Erase" Stonewall Jackson Columbia
7 1 "She's Got You" Patsy Cline Decca
8 1 "Walk on By" Leroy Van Dyke Mercury
9 4 "Trouble's Back in Town" The Wilburn Brothers Decca
10 2 "Losing Your Love" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
11 3 "A Little Heartache" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
12 2 "Lonesome Number One" Don Gibson RCA Victor
13 4 "The Comeback" Faron Young Capitol
14 1 "That's My Pa" Sheb Wooley M-G-M
15 2 "A Little Bitty Tear" Burl Ives Decca
16 1 "Devil Woman" Marty Robbins Columbia
17 1 "Mama Sang a Song" Bill Anderson Decca
18 5 "Alla My Love" Webb Pierce Decca
19 3 "Everybody But Me" Ernest Ashworth Hickory
20 5 "I Can Mend Your Broken Heart" Don Gibson RCA Victor
21 2 "Crazy" Patsy Cline Decca
22 3 "If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone)" Leroy Van Dyke Mecury
23 5 "Unloved, Unwanted" Kitty Wells Decca
24 6 "Success" Loretta Lynn Decca
25 11 "Nobody's Fool But Yours" Buck Owens Capitol
26 3 "PT 109" Jimmy Dean Columbia
27 4 "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" Johnny Tillotson Cadence
28 3 "Old Rivers" Walter Brennan Liberty
29 2 "I'm Gonna Change Everything" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
30 8 "Crazy Wild Desire" Webb Pierce Decca
31 3 "Soft Rain" Ray Price Columbia
32 1 "Big Bad John" Jimmy Dean Columbia
33 9 "Funny Way of Laughing" Burl Ives Decca
34 3 "Call Me Mr. In-Between" Burl Ives Decca
35 5 "Aching, Breaking Heart" George Jones Mercury
36 7 "Three Days" Faron Young Capitol
37 7 "Take Time" Webb Pierce Decca
38 11 "Air Mail to Heaven" Carl Smith Columbia
39 10 "Happy Journey" Hank Locklin RCA Victor
40 7 "What I Feel in My Heart" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
41 "I've Been Everywhere" Hank Snow RCA Victor
42 10 "When I Get Through with You" Patsy Cline Decca
43 "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" Johnny Cash Columbia
44 "If You Don't Know I Ain't Gonna Tell You" George Hamilton IV RCA Victor
45 7 "After Loving You" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
46 7 "Tears Broke Out on Me" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
47 "Willingly" Shirley Collie & Willie Nelson Liberty
48 "Footsteps of a Fool" Judy Lynn United Artists
49 "Touch Me" Willie Nelson Liberty
50 "Willie the Weeper" Billy Walker Columbia

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "The Top 50 Country Music and Rhythm & Blues Records of 1962" (PDF). The Billboard. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0823076326.