List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1950

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These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums for each week in 1950.

Contents

Chart history through July 15

Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)LabelRef.
January 7 Merry Christmas Bing Crosby Decca [1]
January 14 South Pacific Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza Columbia [2]
January 21 [3]
January 28 [4]
February 4 [5]
February 11 [6]
February 18 [7]
February 25 [8]
March 4 [9]
March 11 [10]
March 18 [11]
March 25 [12]
April 1 [13]
April 8 [14]
April 15 [15]
April 22 [16]
April 29 [17]
May 6 Cinderella Ilene Woods with Full Cast / Children's Album RCA Victor [18]
May 13 Young Man with a Horn Doris Day and Harry James Columbia [19]
May 20 [lower-alpha 1] [20]
May 20 [lower-alpha 1] CinderellaIlene Woods with Full Cast / Children's AlbumRCA Victor
May 27Young Man with a HornDoris Day and Harry JamesColumbia [21]
June 3South PacificMary Martin and Ezio PinzaColumbia [22]
June 10 [23]
June 17 [24]
June 24 [25]
July 1 [26]
July 8 [27]
July 15Young Man with a HornDoris Day and Harry JamesColumbia [28]

Chart history July 22 to end of year

Chart history
Issue date33 1/3 R.P.M.45 R.P.M.Ref.
AlbumArtist(s)LabelAlbumArtist(s)Label
July 22South PacificMary Martin & Ezio PinzaColumbiaRodgers and Hammerstein II for Dancing Ralph Flanagan RCA Victor [29]
July 29Young Man with a HornDoris Day & Harry JamesColumbia [30]
August 5 [31]
August 12South PacificMary Martin and Ezio PinzaColumbia Annie Get Your Gun Betty Hutton and Howard Keel MGM [32]
August 19 [33]
August 26Young Man with a HornDoris Day & Harry JamesColumbia [34]
September 2 [35]
September 9 [36]
September 16 [37]
September 23 [38]
September 30 Three Little Words SoundtrackMGM [39]
October 7Three Little WordsSoundtrackMGM [40]
October 14 [41]
October 21 [42]
October 28 [43]
November 4 [44]
November 11Annie Get Your GunBetty Hutton and Howard KeelMGM [45]
November 18Three Little WordsSoundtrackMGM [46]
November 25 [47]
December 2 [48]
December 9 [49]
December 16Merry ChristmasBing CrosbyDecca [50]
December 23South PacificMary Martin and Ezio PinzaColumbia [51]
December 30Merry ChristmasBing CrosbyDecca [52]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Multiple albums tied for the number one position.

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