List of number-one country albums of 1964 (U.S.)
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These are the U.S. number-one country albums of 1964
, per the Billboard
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
1964 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1964.-Events:* January 11 — Billboard increases the length of its Hot Country Singles chart to 50 positions, up from 30....
, per the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
| Issue Date | Album | Artist |
| January 11 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash is a compilations album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1963 . This album collects tracks from singles and an EP released between 1959 and 1963, Cash's first years on the Columbia label. "Ring of Fire", one of Cash's most famous... |
Johnny Cash Johnny Cash John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century... |
| January 18 | Night Life | Ray Price Ray Price (musician) Ray Price is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music... |
| January 25 | Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins is an album by Buck Owens, released in 1963. It reached Number one on the Billboard Country Albums charts.It was re-issued on CD in 1997 by Sundazed Records.-Track listing:... |
Buck Owens Buck Owens Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos... |
| February 1 | Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins | Buck Owens |
| February 8 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| February 15 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| February 22 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| February 29 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| March 7 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| March 14 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| March 21 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| March 28 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| April 4 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| April 11 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| April 18 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| April 25 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| May 2 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
| May 9 | Guitar Country Guitar Country (Chet Atkins album) Guitar Country is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. It was nominated for the 1964 Best Country & Western Album Grammy award but did not win. It reached number 1 on the Country albums charts. Prior to 1964, there was no separate genre chart for Country LP, thus Chet's... |
Chet Atkins Chet Atkins Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle... |
| May 16 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
| May 23 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
| May 30 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
| June 6 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
| June 13 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
| June 20 | More Hank Snow Souvenirs | Hank Snow Hank Snow Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980... |
| June 27 | More Hank Snow Souvenirs | Hank Snow |
| July 4 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves Jim Reeves James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound... |
| July 11 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| July 18 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| July 25 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| August 1 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| August 8 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| August 15 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| August 22 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
| August 29 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| September 5 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| September 12 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| September 19 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
| September 26 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| October 3 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| October 10 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| October 17 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| October 24 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| October 31 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| November 7 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| November 14 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
| November 21 | Together Again Together Again (Buck Owens album) Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat or simply Together Again, is an album by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, released in 1964. The double-sided single "Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat" reached Number one on the Billboard Country charts.... |
Buck Owens |
| November 28 | Together Again | Buck Owens |
| December 5 | Together Again | Buck Owens |
| December 12 | Together Again | Buck Owens |
| December 19 | Together Again | Buck Owens |
| December 26 | Together Again | Buck Owens |