This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1930.
Events December 31 – Record sales dropped 50% from 1929.
Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings
The following songs were extracted from records included in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954, record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified. Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference. Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart Positions 1 Jimmie Rodgers "Anniversary Yodel (Blue Yodel No. 7)" Victor 22488 US BB 1930 #204, US #19 for 1 week, US Hillbilly 1930 #1, 77,235 sales 2 Jimmie Rodgers "In the Jailhouse Now No. 2" Victor 22523 US Hillbilly 1930 #2 3 McKinney's Cotton Pickers "If I Could Be with You One Hour To-night" Victor 38115 US BB 1930 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 19 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #3 4 Beverly Hill Billies "When the Bloom is on the Sage" Brunswick 421 US BB 1930 #73, US #7 for 1 week, 14 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #4 5 Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett "Soldier's Joy" Columbia 15538 US Hillbilly 1930 #5 6 Carter Family "When the World's on Fire" Victor 40293 US Hillbilly 1930 #6, 30,837 sales 7 Carter Family "Worried Man Blues" Victor 40317 US BB 1930 #142, US #14 for 1 weeks, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #7, 24,373 sales 8 Jimmie Rodgers "Any Old Time" Victor 22488 US Hillbilly 1930 #8, 77,235 sales 9 Jimmie Rodgers "Frankie and Johnnie" / "Everybody Does It in Hawaii" Victor 22143 US Hillbilly 1930 #9 10 G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter "Tom Dooley" Victor 40235 US Hillbilly 1930 #10 11 Beverly Hill Billies ""My Pretty Quadroon" Brunswick 441 US BB 1930 #153, US #15 for 1 week, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #11 12 Alex Hood and His Railroad Boys "Corbin Slide" Vocalion 5463 US Hillbilly 1930 #12 13 Cannon’s Jug Stompers "Walk Right In" Victor 38611 US Hillbilly 1930 #13, Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007 14 Jimmie Davis "My Dixie Sweetheart" Victor 40302 US Hillbilly 1930 #14, 6,415 sales 15 Kentucky Ramblers "With My Mother Dead And Gone" Paramount 3283 US Hillbilly 1930 #15 16 Blue Steele Orchestra "Missouri Moon" Victor 23501 US Hillbilly 1930 #16, 3,955 sales 17 Floyd County Ramblers "Sunny Tennessee" Victor 40307 US Hillbilly 1930 #17, 3,672 sales 18 Bud Billings and Carson Robison "Carry Me Back To the Mountains" Victor V-40322 US Hillbilly 1930 #18, 3,584 sales 19 Carter Family "John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man" Victor 40190 US Hillbilly 1930 #19 20 Jimmie Rodgers "My Rough and Rowdy Ways / Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues" Victor 22220 US Hillbilly 1930 #20 21 Stuart Hamblen "The Big Rock Candy Mountains, No. 2" Victor 40319 US Hillbilly 1930 #21, 3,159 sales
Births January 7 – Jack Greene, star of the 1960s and 1970s ("There Goes My Everything") and longtime Grand Ole Opry star (died 2013). June 22- Roy Drusky, Grand ole opry star September 23 – Ray Charles, blind African-American pop singer who recorded a series of influential country music albums, starting with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (died 2004). September 28 – Tommy Collins, singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield Sound (died 2000). November 20 – Curly Putman, songwriter (died 2016).
Deaths
Further reading Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 () Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 () Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.
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