List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1956
In 1956, Billboard magazine published three charts covering the best-performing country music songs in the United States. At the start of the year, the charts were published under the titles Most Played in Juke Boxes, Best Sellers in Stores, and Most Played By Jockeys, with the genre denoted in an overall page heading. With effect from the issue of Billboard dated June 30, the genre was added to the specific titles of the charts, which were thus published as Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes, C&W Best Sellers in Stores, and Most Played C&W By Jockeys, the C&W standing for "country and western". All three charts are considered part of the lineage of the current Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.[1]
The number-one positions on both the juke box and best sellers charts were dominated in 1956 by
Presley's songs were less successful on the jockeys chart: "Heartbreak Hotel" was his only number one on the
Chart history
In 1956, Billboard sometimes listed both sides of a single jointly at number one on the Best Sellers and Juke Box charts, based on a methodology which combined the survey data for both songs if "significant action [was] reported on both sides of a record".
- Notes
a. ^ B-side "Mystery Train" listed jointly at number one in the March 3 issue only
b. ^ Both sides listed jointly at number one
c. ^ "I Was the One" not listed jointly at number one in the April 19, June 16 and July 7 issues
d. ^ Two singles tied for number one on the juke box chart.
e. ^ B-side "My Baby Left Me" listed jointly at number one in the July 21 issue only
f. ^ B-side "You Done Me Wrong" listed jointly at number one in the July 28 issue only
g. ^ The Jockeys and Juke Box charts in this issue have the wrong headings, but which is really which can be deduced from the "last week" placings in this issue and the next as well as the fact that only one of the two charts permitted both sides of a single to be listed jointly.
See also
- 1956 in music
- 1956 in country music
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart
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