1953 in country music

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!Single Name

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|Midnight

|Red Foley

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• Foley's first Billboard Number One since "Goodnight Irene" in 1950.

|I'll Go on Alone

|Marty Robbins

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|I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

|Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

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• The first of four posthumous Number Ones recorded by Hank Williams.

|No Help Wanted

|The Carlisles

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|Eddy's Song

|Eddy Arnold

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|I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes

|Goldie Hill

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• With this song, Goldie Hill became the second solo female artist to have a Number One country single.

|Kaw-Liga

|Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

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|Your Cheatin' Heart

|Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

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|Mexican Joe

|Jim Reeves

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|Take These Chains from My Heart

|Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

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|It's Been So Long

|Webb Pierce

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|Rub-a-Dub-Dub

|Hank Thompson and His Brazo Valley Boys

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|Hey Joe

|Carl Smith

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|A Dear John Letter

|Ferlin Husky and Jean Shepard

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|I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know

|The Davis Sisters

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• The first Billboard Number One by a female country act, a record that would remain until The Judds with "Mama He's Crazy" in 1984.
• This song became a posthumous Number One hit after the death of member Betty Jack Davis in a car accident in August.

|There Stands the Glass

|Webb Pierce

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|Caribbean

|Mitchell Torok

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|Let Me Be the One

|Hank Locklin

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!Single

!Artist

|Bumming Around

|Jimmy Dean

|Bumming Around

|T. Texas Tyler

|Crying in the Chapel

|Rex Allen

|Crying in the Chapel

|Darrell Glenn

|Dear Joan

|Jack Cardwell

|Death of Hank Williams

|Jack Cardwell

|Divorce Granted

|Ernest Tubb

|Do I Like It?

|Carl Smith

|Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes

|Red Foley

|Don't Throw Your Life Away

|Webb Pierce

|Fool Such as I

|Hank Snow

|For Now and Always

|Hank Snow

|Forgive Me, John

|Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky

|Free Home Demonstration

|Eddy Arnold

|The Gal Who Invented Kissin'

|Hank Snow

|Gambler's Guitar

|Rusty Draper

|Goin' Steady

|Faron Young

|Hey Joe

|Kitty Wells

|Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker

|Tennessee Ernie Ford

|(Honey, Baby, Hurry!) Bring Your Sweet Self Back to Me

|Lefty Frizzell

|Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship

|Hank Snow

|Hot Toddy

|Red Foley

| (How Much Is) That Hound Dog in the Window?

|Homer and Jethro

|How's the World Treating You

|Eddy Arnold

|I Can't Wait (For the Sun to Go Down)

|Faron Young

|I Couldn't Keep from Crying

|Marty Robbins

|I Found Out More Than You Ever Knew

|Betty Cody

|I Haven't Got the Heart

|Webb Pierce

|(I Just Had a Date) A Lover's Quarrel

|George Morgan

|I Won't Be Home No More

|Hank Williams

|I'll Go on Alone

|Webb Pierce

|I'm an Old, Old Man

|Lefty Frizzell

|Is Zat You, Myrtle

|The Carlisles

|Just Wait 'Til I Get You Alone

|Carl Smith

|Keep It a Secret

|Slim Whitman

|Knothole

|The Carlisles

|The Last Waltz

|Webb Pierce

|Mama, Come Get Your Baby Boy

|Eddy Arnold

|Marriage of Mexican Joe

|Carolyn Bradshaw

|No Help Wanted

|Hank Thompson

|No Help Wanted #2

|Ernest Tubb

|North Wind

|Slim Whitman

|Older and Bolder

|Eddy Arnold

|Orchids Mean Goodbye

|Carl Smith

|Paying for That Back Street Affair

|Kitty Wells

|Satisfaction Guaranteed

|Carl Smith

|Seven Lonely Days

|Bonnie Lou

|Shake a Hand

|Red Foley

|Slaves of a Hopeless Love Affair

|Red Foley

|Spanish Fire Ball

|Hank Snow

|Tennessee Wig Walk

|Bonnie Lou

|That's All Right

|Autry Inman

|That's Me Without You

|Webb Pierce

|That's Me Without You

|Sonny James

|That's the Kind of Love I'm Looking For

|Carl Smith

|Till I Waltz Again with You

|Tommy Sosebee

|Too Young to Tango

|Sunrise Ruby

|Trademark

|Carl Smith

|Weary Blues from Waitin'

|Hank Williams

|When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon

|Hank Snow

|Yesterday's Girl

|Hank Thompson