List of number-one country singles of 1953 (U.S.)

These are the U.S. number-one country songs of 1953, per the Billboard Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records charts.

Issue date	Title	Artist	Source
January 3	Jambalaya (On The Bayou)	Hank Williams	[1]
January 10	Midnight	Red Foley	[2]
January 17	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)	Hank Williams	[3]
January 24	I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive	Hank Williams	[4]
January 31	Eddy's Song	Eddy Arnold	[5]
February 7			[6]
February 14			[7]
February 21	Kaw-Liga	Hank Williams	[8]
February 28			[9]
March 7			[10]
March 14			[11]
March 21			[12]
March 28			[13]
April 4			[14]
April 11			[15]
April 18			[16]
April 25			[17]
May 2			[18]
May 9			[19]
May 16			[20]
May 23	Mexican Joe	Jim Reeves	[21]
May 30			[22]
June 6			[23]
June 13			[24]
June 20			[25]
June 27	Take These Chains From My Heart	Hank Williams	[26]
July 4			[27]
July 11			[28]
July 18	It's Been So Long	Webb Pierce	[29]
July 25			[30]
August 1			[31]
August 8			[32]
August 15			[33]
August 22	Hey Joe (Carl Smith song)	Carl Smith	[34]
August 29	A Dear John Letter	Jean Shepherd and Ferlin Husky	[35]
September 5			[36]
September 12			[37]
September 19	Hey Joe	Carl Smith	[38]
September 26	A Dear John Letter	Jean Shepard	[39]
October 3			[40]
October 10			[41]
October 17	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know	The Davis Sisters	[42]
October 24			[43]
October 31			[44]
November 7			[45]
November 14			[46]
November 21	There Stands The Glass	Webb Pierce	[47]
November 28	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know	The Davis Sisters	[48]
December 5	There Stands the Glass	Webb Pierce	[49]
December 12			[50]
December 19			[51]
December 26			[52]

See also

• 1953 in music
• 1953 in country music
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart

References

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