This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1959.
Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" ranked as the year's No. 1 country and western record. It was released in April 1959, spent 10 weeks at the No. 1 spot, and remained on Billboards country and western chart for 21 weeks. It was also the No. 1 record of 1961 on the year-end pop chart.
"The Three Bells" by The Browns ranked No. 2 on the year-end country and western chart. It also ranked No. 7 on the year-end pop chart.
"Waterloo" by Stonewall Jackson was another cross-over hit, finishing at No. 4 on the year-end country chart and No. 32 on the year-end pop chart.
Columbia Records led all of the labels with 16 records on the year-end chart. RCA Victor followed with eight records on the chart. Decca was third with seven records.
Rank PeakThis column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts. Title Artist(s) Label1 1 "The Battle of New Orleans" Johnny Horton Columbia2 1 "The Three Bells" The Browns RCA Victor3 2 "Heartaches by the Number" Ray Price Columbia4 1 "Waterloo" Stonewall Jackson Columbia5 1 "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" Johnny Cash Columbia6 1 "White Lightning" George Jones Mercury7 1 "Country Girl" Faron Young Capitol8 2 "I Ain't Never" Webb Pierce Decca9 1 "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)" Johnny Horton Columbia10 1 "Billy Bayou" Jim Reeves RCA Victor11 2 "Home" Jim Reeves RCA Victor12 4 "Big Midnight Special" Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper Hickory13 3 "I'm in Love Again" George Morgan Columbia14 2 "Country Music is Here to Stay" Simon Crum (Ferlin Husky) Capitol15 4 "Come Walk with Me" Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper Hickory16 3 "Who Cares" Don Gibson RCA Victor17 2 "Life to Go" Stonewall Jackson Columbia18 4 "I Got Stripes" Johnny Cash Columbia19 5 "Tennessee Stud" Eddy Arnold Columbia20 5 "Black Land Farmer" Frankie Miller Starday21 1 "City Lights" Ray Price Columbia22 7 "I've Run Out of Tomorrow" Hank Thompson Capitol23 4 "Which One Is to Blame" Wilburn Brothers Decca24 2 "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" Charlie Walker Columbia25 7 "That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome" Ray Price Columbia26 5 "Partners" Jim Reeves RCA Victor27 6 "A Thousand Miles Ago" Webb Pierce Decca28 1 "The Same Old Me" Ray Price Columbia29 9 "Cabin in the Hills" Flatt & Scruggs Columbia30 6 "Somebody's Back in Town" Wilburn Brothers Decca31 9 "Am I That Easy to Forget" Carl Belew Decca32 5 "Set Him Free" Skeeter Davis RCA Victor33 5 "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy" Mac Wiseman Dot34 5 "Gotta Travel On" Billy Grammer Monument35 7 "Who Shot Sam" George Jones Mercury36 5 "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" Don Gibson RCA Victor37 5 "Mommy for a Day" Kitty Wells Decca38 5 "Ten Thousand Drums" Carl Smith Columbia39 4 "Under Your Spell Again" Buck Owens Capitol40 12 "That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome" Bill Anderson Decca41 8 "Luther Plays the Boogie" Johnny Cash Sun42 7 "Dark Hollow" Jimmie Skinner Mercury43 6 "Treasure of Love" George Jones Mercury44 6 "Long Black Veil" Lefty Frizzell Columbia45 10 "Poor Old Heartsick Me" Margie Bowes Hickory46 7 "Family Man" Frankie Miller Starday47 9 "Grin and Bear It" Jimmy C. Newman M-G-M48 3 "The Last Ride" Hank Snow RCA Victor49 3 "There's a Big Wheel" Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper Hickory50 9 "My Baby's Gone" Louvin Brothers Capitol
See also List of Hot C&W Sides number ones of 1959 List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1959 1959 in country music
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