The Billboard Top Folk Records of 1948 is a year-end chart compiled Billboard magazine ranking the year's top folk records based on record sales. In 1948, country music records were included on, and dominated, the Billboard folk records chart.
Eddy Arnold led all other artists with nine records on the year-end folk chart. The four top records were all by Arnold: (1) "Bouquet of Roses" with 279 points; (2) "Anytime" with 185 points; (3) "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)" with 145 points; and (4) "Texarkana Baby" with 134 points.
The best selling records by artists other than Arnold were "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" by Jimmy Wakely (106 points) and "Humpty Dumpty Heart" by Hank Thompson (105 points).
| Sales year-end[1] | Peak[2] [3] | Title | Artist(s) | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Bouquet of Roses" | RCA Victor | |||
| 2 | "Anytime" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 3 | "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 4 | "Texarkana Baby" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 5 | "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" | Capitol | |||
| 6 | "Humpty Dumpty Heart" | Capitol | |||
| 7 | "Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It" | Capitol | |||
| 8 | King | ||||
| 9 | "Deck of Cards" | 4 Star | |||
| 10 | "My Daddy Is Only a Picture" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 11 | "Tennessee Waltz" | RCA Victor | |||
| 12 | "Suspicion" | Tex Williams | Capitol | ||
| 13 | "Tennessee Saturday Night" | Decca | |||
| 14 | "Tennessee Waltz" | King | |||
| 15 | "I Love You So Much It Hurts" | Jimmy Wakely | Capitol | ||
| 16 | "Seaman's Blues" | Decca | |||
| 17 | "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 17 | "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 19 | "Rock and Rye" | Capitol | |||
| 20 | "Forever Is Ending Today" | Ernest Tubb | Decca | ||
| 21 | "Blue Shadows on the Trail" | RCA Victor | |||
| 21 | "Cool Water" | Sons of the Pioneers | RCA Victor | ||
| 23 | "I Love You So Much It Hurts" | Columbia | |||
| 24 | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | |||
| 25 | "Who? Me?" | Tex Williams | Capitol | ||
| 26 | "What a Fool I Was" | Eddy Arnold | RCA Victor | ||
| 27 | "Tennessee Moon" | Cowboy Copas | King | ||
| 28 | "Buttons and Bows" | Columbia |