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Johnny Cash had three of the year's top 10 country & western singles: "Guess Things Happen That Way"/"Come in, Stranger" at No. 3; "The Ways of a Woman in Love"/"You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven" at No. 6; and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" at No. 7. RCA Victor led all labels with 13 of the top 50 singles.
Ray Price was at number one on the first combined sales and airplay chart in October and remained in the top spot until the end of the year. At the start of 1958, Billboard magazine published two charts specifically covering the top-performing country music songs in the United States. The C&W Best Sellers in Stores chart ranked records based on their "current national selling importance at the ...
Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)" by Domenico Modugno was the number one song of 1958. Elvis Presley had three songs on the year-end top 50, the most of any artist in 1958. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top 50 pop singles of 1958. [1]
January 1 — Johnny Cash performs at San Quentin Prison.One of the audience members is Merle Haggard, in the midst of a two-year prison term for burglary.; February — Struggling singer-songwriter Don Gibson finally gets a career break when his first major hit, "Oh Lonesome Me" reaches No. 1 on Billboard's "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" charts.
Patti Page was the artist with second-longest most cumulative run at number one (22 weeks) between January 1950 until August 1958. Perry Como remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 20 weeks between January 1950 until August 1958.
Billboard Hot 100 & Best Sellers in Stores number-one singles by decade Before August 1958 1940–1949 1950–1958 After August 1958 1958–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029 US Singles Chart Billboard magazine The Billboard Hot 100 chart is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During ...
List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1958; List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1958; List of Billboard number-one singles of 1958; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1958; List of number-one singles of 1958 (France) List of number-one hits of 1958 (Germany) List of UK top-ten singles in 1958
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. The chart was first issued in the magazine issue of August 4, 1958. Prior to that, Billboard published four popular song charts; the Top 100, the first Billboard chart to feature a combined tabulation of sales, airplay and jukebox play; Best Sellers in Stores, ranking the best-selling singles in retail ...