the top ten songs of the fifties (In Order) are:
Don't be Cruel/Hound Dog
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Sincerely
Singing the Blues
Mack the Knife
All Shook Up
(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
The Wayward Wind
Sixteen Tons
Heartbreak Hotel
The top 3 in the Fifties :
Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog by Elvis
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White by Prez Prado
Sincerely by the McGuire Sisters
the top 3 in the Sixties :
Hey Jude by The Beatles
Theme From a Summer Place by Percy Faith
Tossin and Turnin by Bobby Lewis
Here are the top 10:
don't be cruel/hound dog
cherry pink and apple blossom white
sincerely
singing the blues
mack the knife
all shook up
Rock around the clock
the wayward wind
sixteen tons
heartbreak hotel
There's so many great Country Music from the 1950's. I'll try to give as many as I can. I'm giving the hits and artist who first recorded them.
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) ~ Hank Williams
Your Cheatin' Heart ~ Hank Williams
There Stands the Glass ~ Webb Pierce
Heartaches By the Number ~ Ray Price
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels ~ Kitty Wells
I'm Movin' On ~ Hank Snow
Tennessee Waltz ~ Patti Page
A White Sport Coat ~ Marty Robbins
El Paso ~ Marty Robbins
Bye, Bye Love ~ The Everly Brothers
I Walk The Line ~ Johnny Cash
White Lightning ~ George Jones
Singing the Blues ~ Marty Robbins
Sixteen Tons ~ Tennessee Ernie Ford
My Special Angel ~ Bobby Helms
The Battle of New Orleans ~ Johnny Horton
Crazy Arms ~ Ray Price
I Can't Stop Loving You ~ Don Gibson
Don't Be Cruel ~ Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel ~ Elvis Presley
Walkin' After Midnight ~ Patsy Cline
Oh Lonesome Me ~ Don Gibson
Four Walls ~ Jim Reeves
Gone ~ Ferlin Husky
The Three Bells ~ the Browns
All I Have To Do Is Dream ~ The Everly Brothers
It's Only Make Believe ~ Conway Twitty
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young ~ Faron Young
Let Me Be the First to Know ~ The Wilburn Brothers
The Wild Side of Life ~ Hank Thompson
My Baby's Gone ~ The Louvin Brothers
You Better Not Do That ~ Tommy Collins
If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') ~ Faron Young
A Dear John Letter ~ Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
I Forgotten More, Than You'll Ever Know ~ The Davis Sisters
You Win Again ~ Jerry Lee Lewis
Makin' Believe ~ Kitty Wells
Wake Up Little Susie ~ The Everly Brothers
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Arms ~ Skeets McDonald
One By One ~ Kitty Wells and Ferlin Husky
Why Baby Why ~ George Jones and Webb Pierce
Fraulein ~ Bobby Helms
I Ain't Never ~ Webb Pierce
Hey Goodlookin' ~ Hank Williams
Another ~ Roy Drusky
Cathy's Clown ~ The Everly Brothers
Don't Just Stand There ~ Carl Smith
Backstreet Affair ~ Web Pierce
Stranger In My Home ~ Kitty Wells and Ferlin Husky
Love Me Tender ~ Elvis Presley
The Window Up Above ~ George Jones
Are You Teasing Me? ~ Carl Smith
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry ~ Porter Wagoner
Set Him Free ~ Skeeter Davis
Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, The Carter Sisters & Maybelle Carter, Johnny Cash, "Little" Jimmy Dickens, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Don Gibson, Goldie Hill, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Ferlin Husky, Pee Wee King, Lonzo & Oscar, Bobby Lord, Benny Martin, George Morgan, Webb Pierce, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Jean Shepard, Carl Smith, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, Justin Tubb, Mac Wiseman and Faron Young, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Gene Autry, George Jones, Wanda Jackson,Hank Williams, Sr., Patti Page, Elvis Presley, Kitty Wells, Osbourne Brothers, Roger Miller, Chet Atkins, Carl Butler, Patsy Cline, Skeeter Davis, Roy Drusky, The Jordanaires, Judy Lynn, Roger Miller, Jimmy C. Newman, Minnie Pearl, Red Sovine, Floyd Tillman, The Wilburn Brothers and Del Wood. This is just a few of the country singers of the 1950s.
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Billboard Charts began on Jan. 1, 1955
Billboard Top Movie Hits was created on 1996-04-23.
Billboard Top Dance Hits was created on 1998-06-16.
Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits was created on 1997-04-15.
On the US charts, as of October 2008, Madonna has 37 top ten hits, including her latest song "4 minutes" which was number 3 on the billboard hot 100 and number 2 on the pop hot 100
Mariah Carey
C . at least 12
Billboard Top Soul Hits was created in 1997.
Billboard Top Pop Hits was created in 1995.
Billboard Top Movie Hits was created on 1996-04-23.
Billboard Top Dance Hits was created on 1998-06-16.
Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits was created on 1997-04-15.
On the US charts, as of October 2008, Madonna has 37 top ten hits, including her latest song "4 minutes" which was number 3 on the billboard hot 100 and number 2 on the pop hot 100
ten
Mariah Carey
Margaritaville
sadly, and luckily, the Grateful Dead's only top ten hit was "touch of grey" which only reached 7th place on the Billboard charts
None. He first recorded for Sun in 1954. It was only after hiring Colonel Parker and moving to RCA that he began charting hits. His first hit was "Heartbreak Hotel" in March 1956. That year, he charted a total of 11 top 40 hits.