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These are lists of Billboard magazine's "Top Country & Western Records" and "Top Country & Western Artists" for 1950, ranked by retail sales and juke box plays.
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"Lovebug Itch" is a country music song written by Jenny Lou Carson and Roy Botkin, sung by Eddy Arnold, and released on the RCA Victor label. In September 1950, it reached No. 2 on the country charts. It spent 16 weeks on the charts and was the No. 10 best selling country record of 1950.
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- 1 2 Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 112. ISBN 0823076326.
- ↑ "The Year's Top Country & Western Records" (PDF). The Billboard. January 13, 1951. p. 19. Retrieved November 30, 2020.