Die Liste bietet eine Übersicht über das Jahr 1951 im Genre Country-Musik.

Top-Hits des Jahres

Nummer-eins-Hits

  • 6. Januar – I Love You a Thousand Ways – Lefty Frizzell
  • 6. Januar – The Golden Rocket – Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
  • 13. Januar – The Shotgun Boogie – Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • 10. Februar – There’s Been a Change in Me – Eddy Arnold
  • 31. März – The Rhumba Boogie – Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
  • 12. Mai – Cold Cold Heart – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
  • 19. Mai – Kentucky Waltz – Eddy Arnold
  • 26. Mai – I Want to Be With You Always – Lefty Frizzell
  • 14. Juli – I Wanna Play House With You – Eddy Arnold
  • 11. August – Hey, Good Lookin‘ – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
  • 1. September – Always Late with Your Kisses – Lefty Frizzell
  • 3. November – Slow Poke – Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys (feat. Redd Stewart)
  • 22. Dezember – Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way – Carl Smith
Anmerkung: Es werden alle drei Hitparaden, die „Best Selling Folk Retail Records“, die „Most Played Jukebox Folk Records“ sowie die Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disc Jockeys", gewertet.

Weitere Hits

  • Blue Christmas – Ernest Tubb
  • Bluebird Island – Hank Snow und Anita Carter
  • Crazy Heart – Hank Williams
  • Dear John – Hank Williams
  • Don’t Stay Too Long – Ernest Tubb
  • Down Yonder – Del Wood
  • Heart Strings – Eddy Arnold
  • Howlin' at the Moon – Hank Williams
  • If Teardrops Were Pennies – Carl Smith
  • Lonesome Whistle – Hank Williams
  • Old Soldiers Never Die – Gene Autry
  • The Strange Little Girl – Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • Tennessee Waltz – Patti Page
  • Tennessee Waltz – Pee Wee King
  • (There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) – Red Foley

Geboren

  • 19. März: Crystal Gayle

Siehe auch

  • Liste der meistverkauften Countrysingles in den USA (1951)

The Music Of 1951 This Was Our Time And Our Music

1 Country Song On May 11, 1955

Classic Country 19411951 (2000, CD) Discogs

Countrymusiker und Bands

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