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