Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1954 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales and juke box plays.[1]
Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore" was the year's No. 1 record on both the record sales and juke box charts.
"One by One", a duet by Kitty Wells and Red Foley, ranked No. 2 on both charts.
Webb Pierce had four of the year's top 10 best-selling records with "Slowly" (No. 3), "Even Tho" (No. 4), "More and More" (No. 6), and "There Stands the Glass" (No. 8).[1]
Other artists with multiple records on the year-end lists included Slim Whitman and Eddy Arnold with three each.
| Retail year-end[1] |
Juke box year-end[1] |
Peak[note 1][2] | Title | Artist(s) | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | "I Don't Hurt Anymore" | Hank Snow | RCA Victor |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | "One by One" | Kitty Wells, Red Foley | Decca |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | "Slowly" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 4 | 4 | 1 | "Even Tho" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | "I Really Don't Want to Know" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| 6 | 14 | 1 | "More and More" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 7 | 7 | 2 | "You Better Not Do That" | Tommy Collins | Capitol |
| 8 | 13 | 1 | "There Stands the Glass" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 9 | 6 | 4 | "Rose Marie" | Slim Whitman | Imperial |
| 10 | 18 | 2 | "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" | Ray Price | Columbia |
| 11 | 11 | 1 | "Bimbo" | Jim Reeves | Abbott |
| 12 | 20 | 3 | "This Is the Thanks I Get (For Loving You)" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| 13 | 26 | 2 | "This Ole House" | Stuart Hamblen | RCA Victor |
| 14 | 10 | 4 | "Sparkling Brown Eyes" | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| 15 | 8 | 4 | "Looking Back to See" | Goldie Hill, Justin Tubb | Decca |
| 16 | NR | 2 | "Secret Love" | Slim Whitman | Imperial |
| 17 | 16 | 2 | "Back Up Buddy" | Carl Smith | Columbia |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | "Wake Up Irene" | Hank Thompson | Capitol |
| 19 | 15 | 6 | "Release Me" | Ray Price | Columbia |
| 20 | 21 | 3 | "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight" | Johnnie & Jack | RCA Victor |
| 21 | 22 | 1 | "Let Me Be the One" | Hank Locklin | 4 Star |
| 22 | 26 | 3 | "If You Don't Someone Else Will" | Jimmy & Johnny | Chess |
| 23 | NR | 5 | "Release Me" | Jimmy Heap | Capitol |
| 24 | 23 | 8 | "As Far As I'm Concerned" | Red Foley | Decca |
| 25 | NR | 1 | "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely" | Johnnie & Jack | RCA Victor |
| 26 | 25 | 7 | "Hep Cat Baby" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor |
| 27 | 28 | 3 | "I Love You" | Ginny Wright, Jim Reeves | Fabor |
| 28 | NR | 4 | "Whatcha Gonna Do Now" | Tommy Collins | Capitol |
| 29 | NR | 4 | "Go, Boy Go" | Carl Smith | Columbia |
| 30 | NR | 4 | "Honky Tonk Girl" | Hank Thompson | Capitol |
| NR | 12 | 3 | "Courtin' in the Rain" | T. Texas Tyler | 4 Star |
| NR | 17 | 4 | "Don't Drop It" | Terry Fell | X |
| NR | 18 | "Such a Night" | Slim Whitman | Imperial | |
| NR | 24 | 4 | "Cry, Cry, Darling" | Jimmy C. Newman | Dot |
| NR | 29 | 9 | "River of No Return" | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Capitol |
| NR | 30 | 8 | "Release Me" | Kitty Wells | Decca |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.
References
edit- ^ a b c d "1954's Top C & W Records". The Billboard. December 25, 1954. p. 17.
- ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0823076326.