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
- List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1956
- Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1956
- 1956 in music
References
- ^ "1956's Top Rhythm & Blues Records". The Billboard. January 26, 1957. p. 70.