Country Music 1951
Top hits of the year
Number one hits
- January 6th - "I Love You a Thousand Ways" - Lefty Frizzell
- January 6th - "The Golden Rocket" - Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
- January 13th - "The Shotgun Boogie" - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- February 10th - "There's Been a Change in Me" - Eddy Arnold
- March 31st - "The Rhumba Boogie" - Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
- May 12th - "Cold Cold Heart" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
- May 19 - "Kentucky Waltz" - Eddy Arnold
- May 26th - "I Want to Be With You Always" - Lefty Frizzell
- July 14th - "I Wanna Play House With You" - Eddy Arnold
- August 11th - "Hey, Good Lookin '" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
- September 1st - "Always Late with Your Kisses" - Lefty Frizzell
- November 3rd - "Slow Poke" - Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys (feat. Redd Stewart )
- December 22nd - "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way" - Carl Smith
- 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
- "Blue Christmas" - Ernest Tubb
- "Bluebird Island" - Hank Snow and Anita Carter
- "Crazy Heart" - Hank Williams
- "Dear John" - Hank Williams
- "Don't Stay Too Long" - Ernest Tubb
- "Down Yonder" - Del Wood
- "Heart Strings" - Eddy Arnold
- "Howlin 'at the Moo" n - Hank Williams
- "If Teardrops Were Pennies" - Carl Smith
- "Lonesome Whistle" - Hank Williams
- "Old Soldiers Never Die" - Gene Autry
- "The Strange Little Girl" - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- " Tennessee Waltz " - Patti Page
- " Tennessee Waltz " - Pee Wee King
- "(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me)" - Red Foley
Born
- March 19: Crystal Gayle