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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1943 according to The Billboard. The "National Best Selling Retail Records" chart was the first to poll retailers nationwide on record sales.
US Billboard 1943 #128, US Pop #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1943 #8, Hillbilly #1 for 3 weeks, 31 total weeks 9: Floyd Tillman "They Took the Stars Out of Heaven" [14] Decca 6090: April 30, 1941 () May 25, 1943 () US Hillbilly 1943 #9, Hillbilly #1 for 2 weeks, 35 total weeks 10: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Willie Nelson sets a new record as the oldest artist to achieve a number one country song at age 70. [69] 2004: 2005: The chart's name changes to Hot Country Songs. Josh Gracin becomes the first American Idol finalist to achieve a country number one. [2] [70] [71] 2006: George Strait achieves his 41st number one, breaking Conway Twitty's record.
Rank< Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart positions 1: The Mills Brothers "Paper Doll" [6] Decca 18318: February 18, 1942 (): May 22, 1943 (): US BB 1943 #2, US #1 for 12 weeks, 40 total weeks, US R&B 1943 #14, Harlem Hit Parade #2 for 5 weeks, 29 total weeks, 287 points, 1,000,000 sales, [5] Grammy Hall of Fame 1998
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on the weekly country music singles chart published by Billboard magazine. From January 8, 1944 to May 15, 1948, the only country music chart was the Juke Box chart. A Best Sellers chart debuted that week, followed by a Jockeys chart on the week of December 10, 1949. [1]
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. [2] He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s.
[8] [9] A number of other artists achieved a first country number one in 1973. Joe Stampley was the first when he spent one week at the top of the chart with "Soul Song" in January. [10] In March, Cal Smith topped the chart for the first time with "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking", [11] as did Barbara Fairchild with "The Teddy Bear Song". [12]