Billboard Top R&B Records of 1956
Billboard Top R&B Records of 1956 is made up of three year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales, disc jockey plays, and juke box plays.[1]
| Retail | Juke box |
Disk jockey |
Title | Artist(s) | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 5 | "Honky Tonk" | Bill Doggett | King |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | "I'm in Love Again" | Fats Domino | Imperial |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | "Long Tall Sally" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | "Fever" | Little Willie John | King |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | "The Great Pretender" | The Platters | Mercury |
| 6 | 9 | 6 | "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" | The Teenagers | Gee |
| 7 | 38 | 31 | "I Want You to Be My Girl" | The Teenagers | Gee |
| 8 | 7 | 12 | "My Prayer" | The Platters | Mercury |
| 9 | 10 | 21 | "Blue Suede Shoes" | Carl Perkins | Sun |
| 10 | 11 | 10 | "Let the Good Times Roll" | Shirley & Lee | Aladdin |
| 11 | 21 | 18 | "Rip It Up" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| 12 | 4 | 7 | "Tutti Frutti" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | "Drown in My Own Tears" | Ray Charles | Atlantic |
| 14 | 25 | 13 | "Don't Be Cruel" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 15 | 12 | 15 | "Treasure of Love" | Clyde McPhatter | Atlantic |
| 16 | 15 | 14 | "Eddie My Love" | The Teen Queens | RPM |
| 17 | 48 | 20 | "Please, Please, Please" | James Brown | Federal |
| 18 | 20 | 34 | "Speedoo" | The Cadillacs | Josie |
| 19 | 37 | 24 | "Heartbreak Hotel" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 20 | 33 | 26 | "It's Too Late" | Chuck Willis | Atlantic |
| 21 | 15 | 25 | "Hound Dog" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 22 | 29 | 30 | "In the Still of the Night" | The Five Satins | Ember |
| 23 | 5 | 11 | "Seven Days" | The Drifters | Atlantic |
| 24 | 23 | 19 | "(You've Got) The Magic Touch" | The Platters | Mercury |
| 25 | 28 | 16 | "Blueberry Hill" | Fats Domino | Imperial |
| 26 | 14 | 27 | "Corrine, Corrina" | Big Joe Turner | Atlantic |
| 27 | 35 | 23 | "My Blue Heaven" | Fats Domino | Imperial |
| 28 | 27 | 38 | "Stranded in the Jungle" | The Cadets | Modern |
| 29 | NR | 37 | "Need Your Love So Bad" | Little Willie John | King |
| 30 | 41 | 8 | "Slippin' and Slidin' | Little Richard | Specialty |
See also
[edit]- List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1956
- Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1956
- 1956 in music
References
[edit]- ^ "1956's Top Rhythm & Blues Records". The Billboard. January 26, 1957. p. 70.