Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1956

Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1956 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, juke box plays, and jockey plays.[1]

Ray Price's "Crazy Arms was the year's No. 1 record on both the retail and jockey charts.

Several newcomers, including three from the Sun Records label, made impressive debuts:

In the first appearance by an African-American artist on the country year-end chart, Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" ranked No. 23 on the year-end retail chart.

Retail Juke box Jockeys Title Artist(s) Label
1 3 1 "Crazy Arms" Ray Price Columbia
2 1 3 "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
3 4 2 "I Walk the Line" Johnny Cash Sun
4 2 4 "Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins Sun
5 9 13 "Searching (For Someone Like You)" Kitty Wells Decca
6 11 22 "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
7 8 12 "Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
8 6 7 "Why Baby Why" Red Sovine, Webb Pierce Decca
9 5 16 "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
10 17 17 "Singing the Blues" Marty Robbins Columbia
11 14 26 "Hound Dog" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
12 15 6 "You and Me" Kitty Wells, Red Foley Decca
13 16 8 "Sweet Dreams" Faron Young Capitol
14 19 NR "So Doggone Lonesome" Johnny Cash Sun
15 7 15 "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford Capitol
16 13 10 "Love Love Love" Webb Pierce Decca
17 18 9 "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby" The Louvin Brothers Capitol
18 25 11 "I Take the Chance" The Browns RCA Victor
19 22 18 "Blackboard of My Heart" Hank Thompson Capitol
20 24 41 "Be-Bop-a-Lula" Gene Vincent Capitol
21 10 5 "Yes I Know Why" Webb Pierce Decca
22 12 25 "Eat, Drink and Be Merry" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor
23 NR NR "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino Imperial
24 21 14 "You Are the One" Carl Smith Columbia
25 20 33 "I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night" Faron Young Capitol
26 40 23 "Little Rosa" Red Sovine, Webb Pierce Decca
27 NR 44 "I Was the One" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
28 33 39 "Conscience I'm Guilty" Hank Snow RCA Victor
29 23 30 "Why Baby Why" George Jones Starday
30 NR NR "What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House)" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor
31 43 NR "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
32 29 19 "Folsom Prison Blues" Johnny Cash Sun
33 31 NR "Mystery Train" Elvis Presley RCA Victor
34 44 24 "Honky-Tonk Man" Johnny Horton Columbia
35 38 27 "My Lips Are Sealed" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
36 27 45 "'Cause I Love You" Webb Pierce Decca
37 26 NR "Just Call Me Lonesome" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
38 35 37 "You're Free to Go" Carl Smith Columbia
39 NR 34 "How Far Is Heaven" Kitty Wells Decca
40 NR NR "You Don't Know Me" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor

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References

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  1. ^ "1956's Top Country and Western Records". The Billboard. January 26, 1957. p. 64.