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.
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) Label1 1 1 "In the Jailhouse Now" Webb Pierce Decca2 8 3 "Making Believe" Kitty Wells Decca3 2 2 "I Don't Care" Webb Pierce Decca4 4 4 "Loose Talk" Carl Smith Columbia5 3 5 "A Satisfied Mind" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor6 19 8 "The Cattle Call" Eddy Arnold, Hugo Winterhalter RCA Victor7 5 6 "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" Faron Young Capitol8 9 10 "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" Faron Young Capitol9 14 8 "Yellow Roses" Hank Snow RCA Victor10 12 12 "I've Been Thinking" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor11 17 7 "More and More" Webb Pierce Decca12 7 13 "Love, Love, Love" Webb Pierce Decca13 22 11 "A Satisfied Mind" Red & Betty Foley RCA Victor14 NR 21 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" Tennessee Ernie Ford Capitol15 16 19 "Just Call Me Lonesome" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor16 15 20 "There She Goes" Carl Smith Columbia17 NR 14 "Are You Mine?" Ginny Wright, Tom Tall Fabor18 NR 18 "A Satisfied Mind" Jean Shepard Capitol19 11 15 "Let Me Go, Lover" Hank Snow RCA Victor 20 10 16 "All Right" Faron Young Capitol21 NR NR "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford Capitol22 NR NR "Kisses Never Lie" Carl Smith Columbia23 13 22 "Hearts of Stone" Red Foley Decca24 NR NR "This Ole House" Stuart Hamblen RCA Victor25 NR NR "Kentuckian Song" Eddy Arnold RCA VictorNR NR 17 "Making Believe" J. Work DotNR NR 19 "Just Call Me Lonesome" Eddy Arnold RCA VictorNR 21 23 "Are You Mine?" M. Lorrie, B. DeVal DeccaNR 18 24 "Would You Mind?" Hank Snow RCA VictorNR NR 25 "I Don't Hurt Anymore" Hank Snow RCA VictorNR 20 NR "Cuzz You're So Sweet" Simon Crum CapitolNR 23 NR "That Do Make It So Nice" Eddy Arnold RCA VictorNR 24 NR "Yonder Comes a Sucker" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
See also List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1955 Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1955 1955 in country music
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