Issue date | Best Sellers in Stores | Most Played by Jockeys | Most Played in Jukeboxes | Honor Roll of Hits | Top 100 | Ref. |
January 7 | "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra Conducted by Jack Fascinato | "Memories Are Made of This" Dean Martin with Orchestra conducted by Dick Stabile | "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra Conducted by Jack Fascinato | "Sixteen Tons" | "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra Conducted by Jack Fascinato | [4] |
January 14 | "Memories Are Made of This" Dean Martin with Orchestra conducted by Dick Stabile | "Memories Are Made of This" | "Memories Are Made of This" Dean Martin with Orchestra conducted by Dick Stabile | [5] |
January 21 | [6] |
January 28 | "Memories Are Made of This" Dean Martin with Orchestra conducted by Dick Stabile | [7] |
February 4 | [8] |
February 11 | [9] |
February 18 | "Rock and Roll Waltz" Kay Starr with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus | "The Great Pretender" The Platters | "The Great Pretender" The Platters | [10] |
February 25 | "Lisbon Antigua" Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra | "The Great Pretender" The Platters | "Rock and Roll Waltz" | "The Great Pretender" The Platters "Rock and Roll Waltz" Kay Starr with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus | [11] |
March 3 | "Lisbon Antigua" Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra | "Rock and Roll Waltz" Kay Starr with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus | "Rock and Roll Waltz" Kay Starr with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus | [12] |
March 10 | "Rock and Roll Waltz" Kay Starr with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus | [13] |
March 17 | "The Poor People of Paris" Les Baxter | "Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song)" | [14] |
March 24 | "The Poor People of Paris" Les Baxter | "Rock and Roll Waltz" | "The Poor People of Paris" Les Baxter | [15] |
March 31 | "Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song)" | [16] |
April 7 | [17] |
April 14 | "Lisbon Antigua" Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra | "The Poor People of Paris" Les Baxter | [18] |
April 21 | "Heartbreak Hotel"/"I Was the One" Elvis Presley | "The Poor People of Paris" Les Baxter | [19] |
April 28 | [20] |
May 5 | "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley | "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra & the Ray Charles Singers | "Heartbreak Hotel"/"I Was the One" Elvis Presley | "Heartbreak Hotel" | "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley | [21] |
May 12 | "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley | "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley | [22] |
May 19 | "Hot Diggity" | [23] |
May 26 | "Heartbreak Hotel"/"I Was the One" Elvis Presley | "Heartbreak Hotel" | [24] |
June 2 | "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic" Morris Stoloff | "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley | "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic" | [25] |
June 9 | [26] |
June 16 | "The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant with Orchestra Under Direction of Buddy Bregman | "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley "The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant with Orchestra Under Direction of Buddy Bregman | [27] |
June 23 | "The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant with Orchestra Under Direction of Buddy Bregman | "The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant with Orchestra Under Direction of Buddy Bregman | [28] |
June 30 | "The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant with Orchestra Under Direction of Buddy Bregman | [29] |
July 7 | "Wayward Wind" | [30] |
July 14 | [31] |
July 21 | [32] |
July 28 | "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"/"My Baby Left Me" Elvis Presley | "I Almost Lost My Mind" Pat Boone | [33] |
August 4 | "My Prayer"/"Heaven on Earth" The Platters | "I Almost Lost My Mind" Pat Boone | [34] |
August 11 | [35] |
August 18 | "Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | "My Prayer" The Platters | "My Prayer" | "My Prayer" The Platters | [36] |
August 25 | "My Prayer" The Platters | [37] |
September 1 | "Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | [38] |
September 8 | "Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | [39] |
September 15 | "My Prayer" The Platters "Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | [40] |
September 22 | "Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" Elvis Presley | "Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | [41] |
September 29 | "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" Elvis Presley | "Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley | "Don't Be Cruel" | [42] |
October 6 | "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" Elvis Presley | [43] |
October 13 | [44] |
October 20 | [45] |
October 27 | [46] |
November 3 | "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley | "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley | "Love Me Tender" | "Green Door" Jim Lowe with The High Fives | [47] |
November 10 | "Love Me Tender"/"Any Way You Want Me" Elvis Presley | [48] |
November 17 | "Green Door" Jim Lowe with The High Fives | "Green Door" Jim Lowe with The High Fives "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley | [49] |
November 24 | "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley | "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley | [50] |
December 1 | [51] |
December 8 | "Singing the Blues" Guy Mitchell with Ray Conniff & his Orchestra | "Singing the Blues" Guy Mitchell with Ray Conniff & his Orchestra | "Love Me Tender"/"Any Way You Want Me" Elvis Presley | "Singing the Blues" Guy Mitchell with Ray Conniff & his Orchestra | [52] |
December 15 | "Singing the Blues" Guy Mitchell with Ray Conniff & his Orchestra | "Singing the Blues" | [53] |
December 22 | "Singing the Blues" Guy Mitchell with Ray Conniff & his Orchestra "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley | [54] |
December 29 | "Singing the Blues" Guy Mitchell with Ray Conniff & his Orchestra | [55] |