These are the U.S. number-one country songs of 1948

1948 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1948.-Events:* April 3 — Radio station KWKH of Shreveport, Louisiana airs the Louisiana Hayride for the first time....

, per the Billboard

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Most Played Juke Box Folk Records

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 & Best Selling Retail Folk Records

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts.

Note that starting with the May 15 issue date a second chart (Best Selling Retail Folk Records) started to be published resluting in some weeks having more than one number ones. Issue Dates with more than one are (June 5, July 3, September 18, October 16, October 30, November 13, November 20, November 27, December 25)

Issue date	Title	Artist	Source
January 3	I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) "I'll Hold You in My Heart " is a 1947 song by Eddy Arnold. The song was Eddy Arnold's third number one on the Juke Box Folk Records chart. "I'll Hold You in My Heart " spent forty-six weeks on the chart and twenty-one at number one.The song went on to become a major country standard...	Eddy Arnold Eddy Arnold Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27
April 3	Anytime Anytime (1921 song) "Anytime" is a popular song written by Herbert "Happy" Lawson. The song was published in 1939.The song is best known in a 1952 recording by Eddie Fisher...
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29
June 5	Bouquet of Roses Bouquet of Roses (song) "Bouquet of Roses" is a 1948 song written by Steve Nelson and Bob Hilliard . It was originally recorded by Eddy Arnold and his Tennesseee Plow Boys and his Guitar in Chicago on May 18, 1947. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2806 and by EMI on the His Master's Voice...
June 5	Texarkana Baby Texarkana Baby (song) "Texarkana Baby" is a song by Fred Rose. It was made popular by Eddy Arnold and Bob Wills in 1948. Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plow Boys and his Guitar recorded it in New York City on January 6, 1947. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-2806 in USA) and by EMI on the His...
June 12
June 19	Bouquet of Roses
June 26
July 3
July 3	Texarkana Baby
July 10	Bouquet of Roses
July 17
July 24
July 31
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 18	(Just a Little Lovin') Will Go a Long Way (Just a Little Lovin') Will Go a Long Way " Will Go a Long Way" is a 1948 song by Eddy Arnold. The song would Eddy Arnold's fifth number one in a row on the Folk Records chart, spending four non consecutive weeks on the Best Seller chart .-References:...
September 25	Bouquet of Roses
October 2
October 9	(Just a Little Lovin') Will Go a Long Way
October 16
October 16	Bouquet of Roses
October 23	(Just a Little Lovin') Will Go a Long Way
October 30
October 30	Bouquet of Roses
November 6	(Just a Little Lovin') Will Go a Long Way
November 13	Bouquet of Roses
November 13	One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) "One Has My Name is a 1948 song by singing cowboy Eddie Dean, his wife Lorene "Dearest" Dean, and Hollywood songwriter Hal Blair. The song was first recorded by Jimmy Wakely and was his third release on the Folk Best Seller charts and his first number one...	Jimmy Wakely Jimmy Wakely James Clarence Wakeley , better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II...
November 20	Bouquet of Roses	Eddy Arnold
November 20	(Just a Little Lovin') Will Go a Long Way
November 27
November 27	One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)	Jimmy Wakely
December 4
December 11
December 18
December 25	Bouquet of Roses	Eddy Arnold
December 25	A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses) A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses) "A Heart Full of Love " is a 1948 single by Eddy Arnold. The song was Eddy Arnold's eighth number one, where it spent one week at the top of the Best Seller lists. The b-side of "A Heart Full of Love "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)" is a 1948 single by Eddy Arnold. The song was...

See also

• 1948 in music
  1948 in music
  -Events:*May 20 - The Second International Congress of Composers and Music Critics 1948 opens in Prague.*June 5 - Opening of the first Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears....
  
  
• 1948 in country music
  1948 in country music
  This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1948.-Events:* April 3 — Radio station KWKH of Shreveport, Louisiana airs the Louisiana Hayride for the first time....
  
  
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart