Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1956 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, juke box plays, and jockey plays. ^[1]

Ray Price's " Crazy Arms was the year's No. 1 record on both the retail and jockey charts.

Several newcomers, including three from the Sun Records label, made impressive debuts:

• Elvis Presley had five records that placed in the top 10 on at least one of the year-end country charts. " Heartbreak Hotel" was the No 1 song on the country juke box chart and No. 2 on the retail chart. "Heartbreak Hotel" was also No. 1 on the year-end pop chart.
• Johnny Cash, landed multiple records on the year-end charts, including " I Walk the Line" (No. 2 jockeys, No. 3 retail) and " Folsom Prison Blues" (No. 19 jockeys).
• Carl Perkins' " Blue Suede Shoes" ranked No. 2 on the year-end country juke box chart (No. 4 retail) and also placed at No. 18 on the year-end pop chart.

In the first appearance by an African-American artist on the country year-end chart, Fats Domino's " Blueberry Hill" ranked No. 23 on the year-end retail chart.

See also

• List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1956
• Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1956
• 1956 in country music

References