Country Music 1953
Events
Top hits of the year
Number one hits
- January 7th - "Midnight" - Red Foley
- January 24th - "I'll Go on Alone" - Marty Robbins
- January 24th - "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
- January 31st - "No Help Wanted" - The Carlisles
- January 31st - "Eddy's Song" - Eddy Arnold
- February 7th - "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes" - Goldie Hill
- February 21 - "Kaw League" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
- April 11th - "Your Cheatin 'Heart" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
- May 9 - "Mexican Joe" - Jim Reeves
- June 6th - "Take These Chains from My Heart" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
- July 11th - "It's Been So Long" - Webb Pierce
- August 1st - "Rub-a-Dub-Dub" - Hank Thompson and His Brazo Valley Boys
- August 22nd - "Hey Joe" - Carl Smith
- August 29th - "Dear John Letter" - Ferlin Husky and Jean Shepard
- October 17th - "Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" - The Davis Sisters
- November 21 - "There Stands the Glass" - Webb Pierce
- December 12th - "Caribbean" - Mitchell Torok
- December 19 - "Let Me Be the One" - Hank Locklin
- 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
- "Bumming Around" - Jimmy Dean
- " Crying in the Chapel " - Rex Allen
- "Crying in the Chapel" - Darrell Glenn
- "Death of Hank Williams" - Jack Cardwell
- "Divorce Granted" - Ernest Tubb
- "Fool Such as I" - Hank Snow
- "The Gal Who Invented Kissin '" - Hank Snow
- "Goin 'Steady" - Faron Young
- "Hey Joe" - Kitty Wells
- "(Honey, Baby, Hurry!) Bring Your Sweet Self Back to Me" - Lefty Frizzell
- "(How Much Is) That Hound Dog in the Window" - Homer and Jethro
- "I'm an Old, Old Man" - Lefty Frizzell
- "Keep It a Secret" - Slim Whitman
- "Knothole" - The Carlisles
- "The Last Waltz" - Webb Pierce
- "Mom, Come Get Your Baby Boy" - Eddy Arnold
- "Paying for That Back Street Affair" - Kitty Wells
- "Seven Lonely Days" - Bonnie Lou
- "Shake a Hand" - Red Foley
- "That's All Right" - Autry Inman
- "Weary Blues from Waitin '" - Hank Williams
- "When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon" - Hank Snow
- "Yesterday's Girl" - Hank Thompson
Born
- April 9 - Hal Ketchum
- June 1 - Ronnie Dunn from Brooks & Dunn
- November 4 - Van Stephenson, member of BlackHawk
Died
- January 1 - Hank Williams