List of number one country hits in the US (1950)

This is a list of the number one hits in Billboard's Most Played Juke Box Folk Records (Hillbillies, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, Etc.) , Best Selling Retail Folk Records, and Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys in the United States in 1950. These charts are considered the predecessors of the Hot Country Songs introduced in 1958 . There were sixteen number one songs that year.

Most Played Juke Box Folk Records

← 1949 ←	List of number one country hits in the US			1951 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) December 31, 1949 - January 6, 1950 1 week (total 11) 11 Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely with Orchestra Slipping Around Floyd Tillman - January 7, 1950 - January 13, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Ernest Tubb Blue Christmas Billy Hayes, Jay Johnson - January 14, 1950 - January 20, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Delmore Brothers Blues, Stay Away From Me Alton Delmore, Wayne Raney , Rabon Delmore, Henry Glover - January 21, 1950 - January 27, 1950 1 week (total of 12) 12 Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely with Orchestra Slipping Around Floyd Tillman - January 28, 1950 - February 3, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me Cindy Walker - February 4, 1950 - May 5, 1950 13 weeks (total of 13) 13 Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Harry Stone, Jack Stapp - May 6, 1950 - June 2, 1950 4 weeks (4 in total) 4th Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams - June 3, 1950 - June 16, 1950 2 weeks (total 2) 2 Red Foley Birmingham Bounce Hard Rock Gunter - June 17, 1950 - July 14, 1950 4 weeks (4 in total) 4th Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone Syd Nathan, Moon Mullican, Henry Glover, Henry Bernard - July 15, 1950 - July 21, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Red Foley with the Dixie Dons MISSISSIPPI Curley Williams, Billy Simmons - July 22, 1950 - August 25, 1950 5 weeks (total 5) 5 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Why Don't You Love Me Hank Williams - August 26, 1950 - September 15, 1950 3 weeks (total 3) 3 Red Foley & Ernest Tubb with the Sunshine Trio Goodnight, Irene Huddie Ledbetter , Alan Lomax - September 16, 1950 - December 22, 1950 14 weeks (total 14) 14th Hank Snow & His Rainbow Ranch Boys I'm Moving On Clarence E. Snow - December 23, 1950 - December 29, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Lefty Frizzell If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time Lefty Frizzell, Jim Beck -
← 1949				→ 1951 →

Best Selling Retail Folk Records

← 1949 ←	List of number one country hits in the US			1951 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) December 31, 1949 - February 3, 1950 5 weeks (17 in total) 17th Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely with Orchestra Slipping Around Floyd Tillman - February 4, 1950 - April 28, 1950 12 weeks (total of 12) 12 Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Harry Stone, Jack Stapp - April 29, 1950 - May 26, 1950 4 weeks (4 in total) 4th Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams - May 27, 1950 - June 2, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Red Foley Birmingham Bounce Hard Rock Gunter - June 3, 1950 - June 9, 1950 1 week (total 5) 5 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams - June 10, 1950 - June 16, 1950 1 week (total 2) 2 Red Foley Birmingham Bounce Hard Rock Gunter - June 17, 1950 - June 23, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Why Don't You Love Me Hank Williams - June 24, 1950 - July 7, 1950 2 weeks (4 in total) 4th Red Foley Birmingham Bounce Hard Rock Gunter - July 8, 1950 - July 21, 1950 2 weeks (total 3) 3 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Why Don't You Love Me Hank Williams - July 22, 1950 - July 28, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone Syd Nathan, Moon Mullican, Henry Glover, Henry Bernard - July 29, 1950 - August 18, 1950 3 weeks (6 in total) 6th Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Why Don't You Love Me Hank Williams - August 19, 1950 - August 25, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Hank Snow & His Rainbow Ranch Boys I'm Moving On Clarence E. Snow - August 26, 1950 - September 8, 1950 2 weeks (total 2) 2 Red Foley & Ernest Tubb with the Sunshine Trio Goodnight, Irene Leadbelly, Alan Lomax - September 9, 1950 - December 29, 1950 16 weeks (17 in total) 17th Hank Snow & His Rainbow Ranch Boys I'm Moving On Clarence E. Snow -
← 1949				→ 1951 →

Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys

← 1949 ←	List of number one country hits in the US			1951 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) December 31, 1949 - January 6, 1950 1 week (total 2) 2 Tennessee Ernie Ford Mule Train Fred Glickman , Hy Heath, Johnny Lange - January 7, 1950 - January 13, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Gene Autry & the Pinafores Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Johnny Marks - January 14, 1950 - January 20, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Leon Payne I Love You Because Leon Payne - January 21, 1950 - January 27, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Harry Stone, Jack Stapp - January 28, 1950 - February 3, 1950 1 week (total 2) 2 Leon Payne I Love You Because Leon Payne - February 4, 1950 - April 21, 1950 11 weeks (total of 12) 12 Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Harry Stone, Jack Stapp - April 22, 1950 - April 28, 1950 1 week (total 1) 1 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams - April 29, 1950 - May 5, 1950 1 week (total of 13) 13 Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Harry Stone, Jack Stapp - May 6, 1950 - June 23, 1950 7 weeks (8 in total) 8th Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams - June 24, 1950 - September 1, 1950 10 weeks (total 10) 10 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys Why Don't You Love Me Hank Williams - September 2, 1950 - December 29, 1950 17 weeks (17 in total) 17th Hank Snow & His Rainbow Ranch Boys I'm Moving On Clarence E. Snow -
← 1949				→ 1951 →

See also

• List of number one hits in the US (1950)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Discogs (Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely with Orchestra - Slipping Around)
2. ↑ Discogs (Ernest Tubb - Blue Christmas)
3. ↑ Discogs (Delmore Brothers - Blues, Stay Away From Me)
4. ↑ Discogs (Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys - Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me)
5. ↑ Discogs (Red Foley - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy)
6. ↑ Discogs (Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys - Long Gone Lonesome Blues)
7. ↑ Discogs (Red Foley - Birmingham Bounce)
8. ↑ Discogs (Moon Mullican - I'll Sail My Ship Alone)
9. ↑ Discogs (Red Foley with the Dixie Dons - MISSISSIPPI)
10. ↑ Discogs (Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys - Why Don't You Love Me)
11. ↑ Discogs (Red Foley & Ernest Tubb with the Sunshine Trio - Goodnight, Irene)
12. ↑ Discogs (Hank Snow & His Rainbow Ranch Boys - I'm Moving On)
13. ↑ Discogs (Hank Snow & His Rainbow Ranch Boys - If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time)
14. ↑ Discogs (Tennessee Ernie Ford - Mule Train)
15. ↑ Discogs (Gene Autry & the Pinafores - Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
16. ↑ Discogs (Leon Payne - I Love You Because)