Billboard Top R&B Records of 1956 is made up of three year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales, disc jockey plays, and juke box plays.
Retail Jukebox Diskjockey Title Artist(s) Label1 13 5 "Honky Tonk" Bill Doggett King2 2 1 "I'm in Love Again" Fats Domino Imperial3 3 3 "Long Tall Sally" Little Richard Specialty4 6 4 "Fever" Little Willie John King5 1 2 "The Great Pretender" The Platters Mercury6 9 6 "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" The Teenagers Gee7 38 31 "I Want You to Be My Girl" The Teenagers Gee8 7 12 "My Prayer" The Platters Mercury9 10 21 "Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins Sun10 11 10 "Let the Good Times Roll" Shirley & Lee Aladdin11 21 18 "Rip It Up" Little Richard Specialty12 4 7 "Tutti Frutti" Little Richard Specialty13 8 8 "Drown in My Own Tears" Ray Charles Atlantic14 25 13 "Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley RCA Victor15 12 15 "Treasure of Love" Clyde McPhatter Atlantic16 15 14 "Eddie My Love" The Teen Queens RPM17 48 20 "Please, Please, Please" James Brown Federal18 20 34 "Speedoo" The Cadillacs Josie19 37 24 "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley RCA Victor20 33 26 "It's Too Late" Chuck Willis Atlantic21 15 25 "Hound Dog" Elvis Presley RCA Victor22 29 30 "In the Still of the Night" The Five Satins Ember23 5 11 "Seven Days" The Drifters Atlantic24 23 19 "(You've Got) The Magic Touch" The Platters Mercury25 28 16 "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino Imperial26 14 27 "Corrine, Corrina" Big Joe Turner Atlantic27 35 23 "My Blue Heaven" Fats Domino Imperial28 27 38 "Stranded in the Jungle" The Cadets Modern29 NR 37 "Need Your Love So Bad" Little Willie John King30 41 8 "Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard Specialty
See also List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1956 Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1956 1956 in music
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