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Billboard Top R&B Records of 1950 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and juke box plays.
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- ↑ "1956's Top Rhythm & Blues Records". The Billboard. January 26, 1957. p. 70.