1950 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1950.

Events

February 14 — "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley #1 selling Country record becomes first Country cross over on Pop Best Seller chart.
August 19 — Hank Snow begins a 21-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard country charts with his landmark "I'm Movin' On." The song is one of just three that will stay as long atop the charts in chart history.
September 30 — The Grand Ole Opry is televised for the first time.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

January 7 – "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" – Gene Autry
January 7 – "Blue Christmas" – Ernest Tubb
January 14 – "I Love You Because" – Leon Payne
January 14 – "Blues Stay Away From Me" – Delmore Brothers
January 21 – "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" – Red Foley
January 28 – "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" – Eddy Arnold
April 22 – "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
May 27 – "Birmingham Bounce" – Red Foley
June 17 – "Why Don't You Love Me" – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
June 17 – "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" – Moon Mullican
July 15 – "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" – Red Foley
August 19 – "I'm Movin' On" – Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
August 26 – "Goodnight Irene" – Red Foley and Ernest Tubb
December 23 – "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" – Lefty Frizzell
December 30 – "Moanin' the Blues" – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played Juke Box Folk (Country & Western) Records," "Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records" and "Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disk Jockeys" charts.

Other major hits

US	Single	Artist
5	Ain't Nobody's Business by My Own	Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford
6	A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed	Little Jimmy Dickens
7	Beyond the Sunset	The Three Suns with Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen
4	Bloodshot Eyes	Hank Penny
7	Blues, Stay Away from Me	Owen Bradley Quintet
10	Bonaparte's Retreat	Pee Wee King
2	Broken Down Merry-Go-Round	Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
6	A Bushel and a Peck	Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
8	Careless Kisses	Red Foley
5	Choc'late Ice Cream Cone	Red Foley
8	Choc'late Ice Cream Cone	Kenny Roberts
2	Cincinnati Dancing Pig	Red Foley
7	Cry of the Dying Duck in a Thunder-Storm	Cactus Pryor
2	The Cry of the Wild Goose	Tennessee Ernie Ford
2	Cuddle Buggin' Baby	Eddy Arnold
6	Daddy's Last Letter	Tex Ritter
7	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age	Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
6	Enclosed, One Broken Heart	Eddy Arnold
8	Faded Love	Bob Wills
4	Frosty the Snow Man	Gene Autry
9	Give Me a Little Old Fashioned Love	Ernest Tubb
9	God Please Protect America	Jimmie Osborne
3	The Gods Were Angry with Me	Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
5	Goodnight, Irene	Moon Mullican
3	Hillbilly Fever	Little Jimmy Dickens
9	Hillbilly Fever No. 2	Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
4	I Gotta Have My Baby Back	Floyd Tillman
10	I Gotta Have My Baby Back	Red Foley
5	I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'	Hank Williams
2	I Love You Because	Ernest Tubb
8	I Love You Because	Clyde Moody
3	(I Won't Go Huntin', Jake) But I'll Go Chasin' Women	Stuart Hamblen
2	I'll Never Be Free	Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford
8	I'll Take a Back Seat for You	Ernest Tubb
10	Ida Red Likes the Boogie	Bob Wills
9	Just a Closer Walk with Thee	Red Foley
2	Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning)	Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
2	Letters Have No Arms	Ernest Tubb
3	Little Angel with the Dirty Face	Eddy Arnold
7	Lose Your Blues	Red Kirk
8	Love Song in 32 Bars	Johnny Bond
2	The Lovebug Itch	Eddy Arnold
6	Mama and Daddy Broke My Heart	Eddy Arnold
4	Mona Lisa	Moon Mullican
10	Mona Lisa	Jimmy Wakely
9	My Son Calls Another Man Daddy	Hank Williams
9	Nobody's Lonesome for Me	Hank Williams
8	Our Lady of Fatima	Red Foley
7	Pan American Boogie	The Delmore Brothers
3	Peter Cottontail	Gene Autry
6	Peter Cottontail	Mervin Shiner
7	Peter Cottontail	Jimmy Wakely
7	Peter Cottontail	Johnnie Lee Wills
10	A Prison Without Walls	Eddy Arnold
3	Quicksilver	Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen
2	Rag Mop	Johnnie Lee Wills
2	(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You	Stuart Hamblen
5	(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You	Ernest Tubb
5	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Gene Autry
7	Slippin' Around with Jole Blon	Bud Messner
13	Slippin' Around	Texas Jim Robertson
8	Stampede	Roy Rogers
9	Steal Away	Red Foley
4	Sugarfoot Rag	Red Foley
3	Sunday Down in Tennessee	Red Foley
2	Tennessee Border – No. 2	Red Foley and Ernest Tubb
6	There's No Wings On My Angel	Eddy Arnold
5	They'll Never Take Her Love from Me	Hank Williams
3	Throw Your Love My Way	Ernest Tubb
8	Unfaithful One	Ernest Tubb
3	Why Should I Cry?	Eddy Arnold
9	Why Should We Try Anymore	Hank Williams
10	You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry	Ernest Tubb

Births

February 16 — Paul Worley, record producer whose success dates from the mid-1980s onward.
March 26 — Ronnie McDowell, male vocalist of the 1970s and 1980s, who first rose to fame with his Elvis Presley tribute "The King is Gone."
August 7 — Rodney Crowell, singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream fame in the late 1980s before becoming a leader in the alternative country movement; ex-husband of Rosanne Cash.
September 16 — David Bellamy, of The Bellamy Brothers.