Country Music 1949
Events
- December 10th - Billboard Magazine introduces a third country / hillbilly hit parade: Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disc Jockeys . These are the first charts that a single has on the radio after its success and allow an artist to have a total of three number one hits at the same time.
- The Carolina Barn Dance premieres from Spruce Pine, North Carolina
- The KXLA Hometown Jamboree will be broadcast from Los Angeles for the first time
- The Old Kentucky Barn Dance is first broadcast from Louisville , Kentucky . It is one of four shows that were broadcast on AFN in Germany during the 1950s.
- The Virginia Barn Dance first airs from Danville , Virginia
Top hits of the year
Number one hits
- January 22nd - "I Love You So Much it Hurts" - Jimmy Wakely
- March 5th - "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" - Eddy Arnold
- March 19 - "Tennessee Saturday Night" - Red Foley and the Cumberland Valley Boys
- April 2nd - "Candy Kisses" - George Morgan
- May 7th - "Lovesick Blues" - Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
- June 18 - "One Kiss Too Many" - Eddy Arnold
- July 30th - "I'm Throwing Rice (at the Girl I Love)" - Eddy Arnold
- September 10 - "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me" - Wayne Raney
- September 24th - "Slipping Around" - Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadors
- October 8th - "Slipping Around" - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
- December 10th - " Mule Train " - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Note: All three hit parades, the "Best Selling Folk Retail Records", the "Most Played Jukebox Folk Records" and the Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disc Jockeys "are evaluated.
More hits
- "Anticipation Blues" - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- "Blue Skirt Waltz" - Frank Yankovic
- "CHRISTMAS" - Eddy Arnold
- "Country Boy" - Little Jimmy Dickens
- "Cry Baby Heart" - George Morgan
- "Death Of Kathy Fiscus" - Jimmy Osborne
- "Echo Of Your Footsteps" - Eddy Arnold
- "I Never See Maggie Alone" - Kenny Roberts
- "I'm Bitin 'My Fingernails" - Ernest Tubb & the Andrews Sisters
- "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" - Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
- "Panhandle Rag" - Leon McCauliffe
- "Room Full of Roses" - George Morgan
- "Riders In The Sky" - Vaughn Monroe
- "Smokey Mountain Boogie" - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- "Take An Old Cold Tater And Wait" - Little Jimmy Dickens
- "Tennessee Border" - Red Foley and his Cumberland Valley Boys
- "Tennessee Border # 2" - Red Foley & Ernest Tubb
- "There's Not A Thing" - Eddy Arnold
- "Warm Red Wine" - Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadors
- "Wedding Bells" - Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
- "Whoa Sailor" - Hank Thompson
- "Please Don't Let Me Love You" - George Morgan
- "Tennessee Polka" - Red Foley
- "Slipping Around" - Floyd Tillman
- "I'll Never Slip Around Again" - Jimmy Wakely & Margaret Whiting
- "Will Santa Come To Shanty Town" - Eddy Arnold
- "You're Gonna Change" - Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
- "Mind Your Own Business" Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
- "Candy Kisses" - Elton Britt
Born
- May 26 - Hank Williams Jr.
Died
- December 11th - Fiddlin 'John Carson