Acclaimed Music - The Top 35 Singles from 1949 to 1954
The Top 35 Singles from 1949 to 1954

1 59 Bill Haley and His Comets
(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
1954
2 105 Big Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle and Roll
1954
3 106 Elvis Presley
That's All Right (Mama)/Blue Moon of Kentucky
1954
4 179 Jackie Brenston
Rocket 88
1951
5 191 Lloyd Price
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
1952
6 266 The Penguins
Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
1954
7 279 Hank Williams
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
1949
8 280 Muddy Waters
Hoochie Coochie Man
1954
9 313 Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
Hound Dog
1953
10 317 The Orioles
Crying in the Chapel
1953
11 360 Johnnie Ray
Cry
1951
12 375 Hank Snow
I'm Movin' On
1950
13 376 Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Money Honey
1953
14 381 Muddy Waters
Rollin' Stone
1950
15 449 Elmore James
Dust My Broom
1951
16 488 Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
1949
17 555 Ruth Brown
Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
1953
18 588 The Chords
Sh-Boom
1954
19 637 Hank Williams
Lovesick Blues
1949
20 665 Hank Williams
Hey Good Lookin'
1951
21 703 Hank Ballard and The Midnighters
Work with Me Annie
1954
22 718 Kitty Wells
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
1952
23 725 Lonnie Donegan
Rock Island Line
1954
24 728 Professor Longhair and His Blues Scholars
Tipitina
1953
25 778 The Weavers
Tzena Tzena Tzena/Goodnight Irene
1950
26 843 Little Walter
Mean Old World
1952
27 874 Billy Ward & The Dominos
The Bells
1953
28 970 LaVern Baker
Soul on Fire
1953
29 998 Jimmy Forrest
Night Train
1952
30 1030 The Clovers
One Mint Julep
1952
31 1103 Billy Ward & The Dominos
Sixty Minute Man
1951
32 1200 The Crows
Gee
1953
33 1237 Hank Williams
Dear John/Cold, Cold Heart
1951
34 1477 The Jewels
Hearts of Stone
1954
35 1479 The Drifters
White Christmas
1954