Billboard Top R&B Records of 1957
Billboard Top R&B Records of 1957 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and disc jockey plays.[1][2] Due to the extent of cross-over between the R&B and pop charts in 1957, the song's rank, if any, in the year-end pop chart is also provided.
| Retail | Disk jockey |
Pop rank[3] |
Title | Artist(s) | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10/NR | 16/NR | "Jailhouse Rock"/"Treat Me Nice" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 2 | 3/24 | 21 | "Searchin'"/"Young Blood" | The Coasters | Atco |
| 3 | 12 | 20 | "You Send Me" | Sam Cooke | Keen |
| 4 | 21 | 19 | "Wake Up Little Susie" | The Everly Brothers | Cadence |
| 5 | 7 | 1 | "All Shook Up" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 6 | 1 | 50 | "Blue Monday" | Fats Domino | RCA Victor |
| 7 | 20 | 27 | "Honeycomb" | Jimmie Rodgers | Roulette |
| 8 | 23 | 24 | "Diana" | Paul Anka | ABC-Paramount |
| 9 | 36 | 35 | "Silhouettes" | The Rays | Augusta |
| 10 | 29 | 18 | "Come Go with Me" | The Del-Vikings | Dot |
| 11 | 4 | 38 | "I'm Walkin'" | Fats Domino | Imperial |
| 12 | 2 | NR | "Love Is Strange" | Mickey & Sylvia | Vik |
| 13 | 14 | 40 | "Send for Me" | Nat King Cole | Capitol |
| 14 | 16 | 43 | "Short Fat Fannie" | Larry Williams | Specialty |
| 15 | 8 | 22 | "School Days" | Chuck Berry | Chess |
| 16 | NR | 3 | "Little Darlin'" | The Diamonds | Mercury |
| 17 | 28 | 30 | "That'll Be the Day" | The Crickets | Brunswick |
| 18 | 41 | NR | "Lucille" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| 19 | 15 | 28 | "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" | Jerry Lee Lewis | Sun |
| 19 | 13 | 48 | "Blueberry Hill" | Fats Domino | Imperial |
| 21 | 35 | NR | "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" | The Tune Weavers | Checker |
| 22 | 9 | NR | "C.C. Rider" | Chuck Willis | Atlantic |
| 23 | 11 | 47 | "Mr. Lee" | The Bobbettes | Atlantic |
| 24 | 22 | 14 | "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"/"Loving You" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 25 | 5 | NR | "Since I Met You Baby" | Ivory Joe Hunter | Atlantic |
| 26 | 49 | 5 | "So Rare" | Jimmy Dorsey | Fraternity |
| 27 | 6 | NR | "Jim Dandy" | LaVern Baker | Atlantic |
| 28 | 42 | NR | "Honky Tonk" | Bill Doggett | King |
| 29 | 30 | NR | "Little Bitty Pretty One" | Thurston Harris | Aladdin |
| 30 | NR | 42 | "Be-Bop Baby" | Ricky Nelson | Imperial |
| 31 | 26 | NR | "Valley of Tears" | Fats Domino | Imperial |
| 32 | 50 | NR | "Just Because" | Lloyd Price | ABC-Paramount |
| 33 | 37 | NR | "Over the Mountain" | Johnnie & Joe | Chess |
| 34 | 48 | NR | "Jenny, Jenny"/"Miss Ann" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| 35 | 17 | NR | "Farther Up the Road" | Bobby Bland | Duke |
| 36 | 17 | NR | "Without Love" | Clyde McPhatter | Atlantic |
| 37 | 27 | NR | "Keep A-Knockin'" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| 38 | 19 | 13 | "Party Doll" | Buddy Knox | Roulette |
| 39 | 45 | NR | "It Hurts to Be in Love" | Annie Laurie | Deluxe |
| 40 | 47 | 11 | "Bye Bye Love" | The Everly Brothers | Cadence |
| 41 | NR | NR | "Stardust" | Billy Ward | Liberty |
| 42 | NR | 2 | "Love Letters in the Sand" | Pat Boone | Dot |
| 43 | NR | 7 | "Singing the Blues" | Guy Mitchell | Columbia |
| 44 | 33 | NR | "A Thousand Miles Away" | The Heartbeats | Rama |
| 45 | NR | NR | "Next Time You See Me" | Little Junior Parker | Duke |
| 46 | 39 | NR | "Honest I Do" | Jimmy Reed | Vee Jay |
| 47 | 25 | 9 | "Too Much" | Elvis Presley | RCA Victor |
| 48 | NR | NR | "Raunchy" | Bill Justis | Phillips International |
| 49 | 44 | 4 | "Young Love" | Tab Hunter | Dot |
| 50 | 34 | NR | "Ain't Got No Home" | Clarence "Frogman" Henry | Argo |
| NR | 31 | NR | "Send Me Some Lovin'" | Little Richard | Specialty |
| NR | 32 | NR | "Long Lonely Nights | Clyde McPhatter | Atlantic |
| NR | 40 | 48 | "Whispering Bells" | The Del Vikings | Dot |
| NR | 42 | NR | "You Got Me Dizzy" | Jimmy Reed | Vee Jay |
| NR | 46 | NR | "Empty Arms" | Ivory Joe Hunter | Atlantic |
See also[edit]
- List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1957
- Billboard year-end top 50 singles of 1957
- 1957 in music
References[edit]
- ^ "1957's Best Selling Records". The Billboard. December 23, 1957. p. 20.
- ^ "1957's Most Played Records by Jockeys". The Billboard. December 23, 1957. p. 21.
- ^ "1957's Best Selling Records" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 69, no. 52. December 23, 1957. p. 20.