Billboard year-end top 50 country & western singles of 1961

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This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1961. [1]

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Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" ranked as the year's No. 1 country and western record. [1] It was released in January 1961, entered the Top 40 on Billboard's country and western chart on April 3, and spent a total of 39 weeks on the chart. [2]

George Jones had two records that finished in the year's Top 5 records: "The Window Up Above" spent 34 weeks on the chart and ranked No. 3 on the year-end chart; and "Tender Years" spent 32 weeks on the chart and ranked No. 4 for the year. [1] [3]

Webb Pierce and Buck Owens led all other artists, each having four records on the year-end list. [1]

Three labels, Capitol, Decca, and RCA Victor, each had 11 records finish on the year-end list. Columbia had seven, and Mercury five. [1]

RankPeak [note 1] [4] TitleArtist(s)Label
11"I Fall to Pieces" Patsy Cline Decca
22"Foolin' Around" Buck Owens Capitol
32"The Window Up Above" George Jones Mercury
41"Tender Years"George JonesMercury
52"Three Hearts in a Tangle" Roy Drusky Decca
61"Hello Walls" Faron Young Capitol
71"Don't Worry" Marty Robbins Columbia
81"Heartbreak U.S.A." Kitty Wells Decca
92"Sea of Heartbreak" Don Gibson RCA Victor
101"On the Wings of a Dove" Ferlin Husky Capitol
113"Sweet Lips" Webb Pierce Decca
124"I'll Just Have Another Cup of Coffee" Claude Gray Mercury
133"I Missed Me" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
145"Hillbilly Heaven" Tex Ritter Capitol
155"Heart over Mind" Ray Price Columbia
162"Under the Influence of Love"Buck OwensCapitol
171"North to Alaska" Johnny Horton Columbia
181"Walk On By" Leroy Van Dyke Mercury
193"My Ears Should Burn"Claude GrayMercury
205"Beggar to a King" Hank Snow RCA Victor
215"Let Forgiveness In"Webb PierceDecca
227"Loving You (Was Worth This Broken Heart)" Bob Gallion Hickory
237"I Think I Know" Marion Worth Columbia
246"When Two Worlds Collide"Roger MillerRCA Victor
254"The Blizzard"Jim ReevesRCA Victor
264"Loose Talk"Buck Owens, Rose Maddox Capitol
277"Odds and Ends (Bits and Pieces)"Warren SmithLiberty
284"Fallen Angel"Webb PierceDecca
297"Big River, Big Man"Claude KingColumbia
3010"Louisiana Man"Rusty and DougHickory
315"My Last Date (With You)" Skeeter Davis RCA Victor
326"Sweet Dreams" Don Gibson RCA Victor
334"You're the Reason" Bobby Edwards Crest
343"It's Your World"Marty RobbinsColumbia
359"Po' Folks"Bill AndersonDecca
369"I Went Out of My Way"Roy DruskyDecca
374"Hello Fool"Ralph EmeryLiberty
389"Walk Out Backward"Bill AndersonDecca
3910"Your Old Love Letters" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor
407"Oklahoma Hills"Hank ThompsonCapitol
412"Excuse Me"Buck OwensCapitol
4212"I Love You Best of All" Louvin Brothers Capitol
437"Happy Birthday to Me" Hank Locklin RCA Victor
445"Walking the Streets"Webb PierceDecca
459"Right or Wrong" Wanda Jackson Capitol
461"Big Bad John" Jimmy Dean Columbia
478"San Antonio Rose" Floyd Cramer RCA Victor
489"Three Steps to a Phone (Millions of Miles)"George Hamilton IVRCA Victor
498"Backtrack"Faron YoungCapitol
5010"I'd Rather Loan You Out"Roy DruskyDecca

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Notes

  1. This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hot C.&W. and R.&B. sides of the year". The Billboard. December 18, 1961. p. 14.
  2. Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 74. ISBN   0823076326.
  3. Whitburn, p. 166.
  4. Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN   0823076326.