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.
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).
Other artists with multiple records on the year-end lists included Slim Whitman and Eddy Arnold with three each.
| Retail year-end |
Juke box year-end |
Peak | 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
- List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1954
- Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1954
- 1954 in country music
Notes
- This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.
References
- ^ "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.
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