Country music 1950

Events

• September 30th - The Grand Ole Opry is televised for the first time.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

• January 7th - " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " - Gene Autry
• January 7th - "Blue Christmas" - Ernest Tubb
• January 14th - "I Love You Because" - Leon Payne
• January 14th - "Blues Stay Away From Me" - Delmore Brothers
• January 21 - "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" - Red Foley
• January 28th - "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" - Eddy Arnold
• April 22nd - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
• May 27th - "Birmingham Bounce" - Red Foley
• June 17th - "Why Don't You Love Me" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
• June 17th - "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" - Moon Mullican
• July 15th - "MISSISSIPPI" - Red Foley
• August 19th - "I'm Movin 'On" - Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
• August 26 - "Goodnight Irene" - Red Foley and Ernest Tubb
• December 23rd - "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" - Lefty Frizzell
• December 30th - "Moanin 'the Blues" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

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

• "The Cry of the Wild Goose" - Tennessee Ernie Ford
• "Faded Love" - ​​Bob Wills
• "Frosty the Snow Man" - Gene Autry
• "Hillbilly Fever" - Little Jimmy Dickens
• "I Love You Because" - Ernest Tubb
• "Little Angel with the Dirty Face" - Eddy Arnold
• "Mona Lisa" - Moon Mullican
• "Mona Lisa" - Jimmy Wakely
• "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
• "Nobody's Lonesome for Me" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
• "Quicksilver" - Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen
• "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
• "Why Should I Cry?" - Eddy Arnold
• "Why Should We Try Anymore" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
• "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" - Ernest Tubb

Born

• March 26 - Ronnie McDowell
• August 7th - Rodney Crowell
• September 16 - David Bellamy of The Bellamy Brothers

Died