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This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1959. [1] Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" ranked as the year's No. 1 country and western record. [1] It was released in April 1959, spent 10 weeks at the No. 1 spot, and remained on Billboard ' s country and western chart for 21 weeks. [2]
In 1959, eleven different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot C&W Sides, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores. [1] At the start of the year the song at number one was "City Lights" by Ray Price.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart published by Billboard magazine which ranks the best-performing singles in the United States. In 1959, it was compiled based on a combination of sales and airplay data sourced from surveys of retail outlets and playlists submitted by radio stations respectively, [1] and 16 different singles spent time at number one.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1959. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 14, 1959, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January through November 1959.
The first Grammy Award for outstanding performances in the country music genre is presented. The Kingston Trio wins the only country-specific award, for Best Country and Western Performance, with "Tom Dooley." It wouldn't be until 1965 when more country-specific Grammy categories were started.
Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 1958; December 15 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" The Platters: 1 January 19 10 December 22 "A Lover's Question" Clyde McPhatter: 6 January 19 7 December 29 "Whole Lotta Lovin'" Fats Domino: 6 January 12 5 Singles from 1959 January 5 "My Happiness" Connie Francis: 2 ...
The chart was renamed Hot Country Singles in 1962, Hot Country Singles and Tracks in 1990, and Hot Country Songs in 2005. [1] [2] In 1990, its methodology changed to use only airplay data from country music radio stations. [1] In 2012, this changed again to use data from stations of all formats as well as sales and streaming information. [3]
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1959; List of European number-one hits of 1959; List of number-one singles of 1959 (France) List of Hot C&W Sides number ones of 1959; List of number-one hits of 1959 (Italy) List of Hot R&B Sides number ones of 1959; List of UK top-ten singles in 1959