List of Hot Country Albums number ones of 1965

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Buck Owens held the top spot on the country albums chart from the start of the year until July without interruption. Buck Owens.jpg
Buck Owens held the top spot on the country albums chart from the start of the year until July without interruption.

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard . In 1965, 11 different albums topped the chart, which was at the time published under the title Hot Country Albums, based on sales reports submitted by a representative sample of stores nationwide. [1]

In the issue of Billboard dated January 2, Buck Owens and his backing band the Buckaroos were at number one with Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat , the album's seventh week in the top spot. [2] The following week it was displaced by another album by Owens, I Don't Care , which went on to spend 13 consecutive weeks atop the chart, before being in turn replaced by I've Got a Tiger By the Tail , also by Owens. This album also spent 13 weeks at number one, meaning that Owens occupied the top spot without interruption from the start of the year until early July. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail returned to number one for two further weeks in September and Owens went on to spend one week atop the chart in October with his fourth number-one album of the year, Before You Go , giving him a total of 30 weeks spent at number one in 1965. Owens was one of the biggest stars in country music in the mid-1960s, achieving a run of 15 consecutive number ones on the Hot Country Singles chart between 1963 and 1967. [3]

The album which finally ended Owens' run at number one was the self-titled debut album by Connie Smith. It was the first album by a female artist to top the country albums chart, approximately 18 months after it had first been published. [4] The album spent a total of seven weeks atop the chart in two separate runs, and Smith returned to number one in the issue of Billboard dated December 25 with Cute 'n' Country , which was the year's final number-one album. She was one of two artists other than Buck Owens to achieve two number ones in 1965. In the same year she set a record for the longest run by a female artist at number one on the Hot Country Singles chart which would stand for nearly 50 years. [5] Eddy Arnold also took two albums to the top of the chart in 1965. He had been one of the biggest country music stars of the late 1940s and early 1950s before his career went into a decline. [6] He revived his fortunes in the mid-1960s by embracing the "Nashville sound", a newer style of country music which eschewed elements of the earlier honky-tonk style in favour of smooth productions which had a broader appeal, [7] and went on to achieve a second run of success. [6] In October, Jim Reeves reached number one with Up Through the Years; this was a posthumous chart-topper for the singer, who had died in an airplane crash the previous July. [8]

Chart history

Eddy Arnold had two chart-topping albums in 1965. Eddy Arnold 1964.JPG
Eddy Arnold had two chart-topping albums in 1965.
Connie Smith was the first female artist to top the country albums chart. Connie Smith Opry 2.jpg
Connie Smith was the first female artist to top the country albums chart.
Roger Miller reached number one with The 3rd Time Around. Roger Miller 1975.jpg
Roger Miller reached number one with The 3rd Time Around .
Issue dateTitleArtist(s)Ref.
January 2 Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat Buck Owens and his Buckaroos [2]
January 9 I Don't Care [9]
January 16 [10]
January 23 [11]
January 30 [12]
February 6 [13]
February 13 [14]
February 20 [15]
February 27 [16]
March 6 [17]
March 13 [18]
March 20 [19]
March 27 [20]
April 3 [21]
April 10 I've Got a Tiger by the Tail [22]
April 17 [23]
April 24 [24]
May 1 [25]
May 8 [26]
May 15 [27]
May 22 [28]
May 29 [29]
June 5 [30]
June 12 [31]
June 19 [32]
June 26 [33]
July 3 [34]
July 10 Connie Smith Connie Smith [35]
July 17 [36]
July 24 [37]
July 31 [38]
August 7 [39]
August 14The Easy Way Eddy Arnold [40]
August 21 [41]
August 28 Connie Smith Connie Smith [42]
September 4 [43]
September 11 I've Got a Tiger by the Tail Buck Owens and his Buckaroos [44]
September 18 [45]
September 25 The 3rd Time Around Roger Miller [46]
October 2 [47]
October 9 Before You Go Buck Owens and his Buckaroos [48]
October 16Up Through the Years Jim Reeves [49]
October 23 [50]
October 30My World Eddy Arnold [51]
November 6 [52]
November 13The First Thing Ev'ry Morning Jimmy Dean [53]
November 20 [54]
November 27My World Eddy Arnold [55]
December 4 [56]
December 11 [57]
December 18 [58]
December 25 Cute 'n' Country Connie Smith [59]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Top Country Albums</span> Weekly country music rankings published by Billboard magazine in the United States

Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales along with digital sales and streaming. The chart was first published in the issue of Billboard dated January 11, 1964, under the title Hot Country Albums, when the number one album was Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash.

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  38. "Country Albums chart for July 31, 1965". Billboard . Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  39. "Country Albums chart for August 7, 1965". Billboard . Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  40. "Country Albums chart for August 14, 1965". Billboard . Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  41. "Country Albums chart for August 21, 1965". Billboard . Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  42. "Country Albums chart for August 28, 1965". Billboard . Retrieved December 3, 2019.
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