This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1958.[1]

Don Gibson had the year's No. 1 single with "Oh Lonesome Me"/"I Can't Stop Loving You". Gibson also had the year's No. 9 record with "Blue Blue Day".

Johnny Cash had three of the year's top 10 country & western singles: "Guess Things Happen That Way"/"Come in, Stranger" at No. 3; "The Ways of a Woman in Love"/"You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven" at No. 6; and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" at No. 7.

RCA Victor led all labels with 13 of the top 50 singles. Columbia Records and Decca Records followed with nine each. With the popularity of Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, Sun Records had seven. Cadence Records had four top singles, all by the Everly Brothers.

Rank Peak[note 1][2] Title Artist(s) Label
11/7"Oh Lonesome Me"/"I Can't Stop Loving You"Don GibsonRCA Victor
21/2"Just Married"/"Stairway of Love"Marty RobbinsColumbia
31/6"Guess Things Happen That Way"/"Come in, Stranger"Johnny CashSun
41/3"City Lights"/"Invitation to the Blues"Ray PriceColumbia
52/4"Don't"/"I Beg You"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
62/5"The Ways of a Woman in Love"/"You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven"Johnny CashSun
71"Ballad of a Teenage Queen"Johnny CashSun
85"Send Me the Pillow You Dream On"Hank LocklinRCA Victor
91"Blue Blue Day"Don GibsonRCA Victor
101"Alone with You"Faron YoungCapitol
102"Blue Boy"Jim ReevesRCA Victor
121/7"Bird Dog"/"Devoted to You"The Everly BrothersCadence
131"All I Have to Do Is Dream"The Everly BrothersCadence
141"The Story of My Life"Marty RobbinsColumbia
153"I Can't Stop Loving You"Kitty WellsDecca
164"Geisha Girl"Hank LocklinRCA Victor
172/-"Hard Headed Woman"/"Don't Ask Me Why"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
183"It's a Little More Like Heaven"Hank LocklinRCA Victor
191"Great Balls of Fire"Jerry Lee LewisSun
205"Secretly"Jimmie RodgersRoulette
213/-"Wear My Ring Around Your Neck"/"Doncha' Think It's Time"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
223"Poor Little Fool"Ricky NelsonImperial
234/7"All Over Again"/"What Do I Care"Johnny CashColumbia
247"Stop the World (And Let Me Off)"Johnnie & JackRCA Victor
251"My Special Angel"Bobby HelmsDecca
264"This Little Girl of Mine"The Everly BrothersCadence
273"Curtain in the Window"Ray PriceColumbia
272"Squaws Along the Yukon"Hank ThompsonCapitol
299"Is It Wrong (For Loving You)"Warner MackDecca
304"Breathless"Jerry Lee LewisSun
313"Crying Over You"Webb PierceDecca
325/8"Give Myself a Party"/"Look Who's Blue"Don GibsonRCA Victor
338/12"Stood Up"/"Waitin' in School"Ricky NelsonImperial
3310/10"My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"/"Believe What You Say"Ricky NelsonImperial
353"Anna Marie"Jim ReevesRCA Victor
367"Jealousy"Kitty WellsDecca
371"My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You"Ray PriceColumbia
386"Your Name Is Beautiful"Carl SmithColumbia
391"Jailhouse Rock"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
401"Fraulein"Bobby HelmsDecca
414"She Was Only Seventeen (He Was One Year More)"Marty RobbinsColumbia
426"Raunchy"Bill JustisPhillips International
435"Jacqueline"Bobby HelmsDecca
442"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down"Charlie WalkerColumbia
451"Wake Up Little Susie"The Everly BrothersCadence
469"High School Confidential"Jerry Lee LewisSun
475"Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again"Jimmie RodgersRoulette
488"Half a Mind"Ernest TubbDecca
4910"Just a Little Lonesome"Bobby HelmsDecca
503/13"Home of the Blues"/"Give My Love to Rose"Johnny CashSun

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.

References

  1. ↑ "Chart Toppers of 1958". The Billboard. December 15, 1958. p. 44.
  2. ↑ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0823076326.
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