List of Billboard number-one singles of 1958 explained

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. The chart was first issued in the magazine issue of August 4, 1958. Prior to that, Billboard published four popular song charts; the Top 100, the first Billboard chart to feature a combined tabulation of sales, airplay and jukebox play; Best Sellers in Stores, ranking the best-selling singles in retail stores; Most Played by Jockeys, ranking the most played songs on US radio stations; and the leading song chart, Honor Roll of Hits, which ranks the most popular songs (not singles) in the country. With the foundation of the Hot 100, Top 100 and Most Played by Jockeys were discontinued. Best Sellers in Stores continued until October 13, 1958, while Honor Roll of Hits continued until 1963.In 1958, twenty-five different songs were able to top one of the four charts. A majority of the songs which topped the Best Sellers in Stores, which Billboard considered the predecessor of the Hot 100,^[1] were able to also top the two other singles-tracking charts. The first song to top all three charts was Danny & the Juniors' "At the Hop".

On the Hot 100, eight acts hit the top, which were also their first. Those acts include Ricky Nelson, Domenico Modugno, The Elegants, Tommy Edwards, Conway Twitty, The Kingston Trio, The Teddy Bears, and The Chipmunks (even though David Seville went to number one earlier this year with “Witch Doctor“, which hit prior to the creation of the Hot 100).

Pre-Hot 100

NOTE: The Hot 100 Era officially began on Monday, August 4, 1958, which would be the week ending August 10 (issue date August 4). The Best Sellers in Stores list issued through October 13.

Issue date	Best Sellers in Stores^[2]	Most Played by Jockeys^[3]	Honor Roll of Hits	Top 100
	"At the Hop" Danny & the Juniors with Artie Singer	"April Love" Pat Boone with Billy Vaughn	"April Love"	"At the Hop" Danny & the Juniors with Artie Singer	^[4]
					^[5]
					^[6]
		"At the Hop" Danny & the Juniors	"At the Hop"		^[7]
	"Don't"/I Beg of You" Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires				^[8]
		"Sugartime" The McGuire Sisters with Neal Hefti			^[9]
			""Sugartime"	"Get a Job" The Silhouettes	^[10]
					^[11]
				"Don't" Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires	^[12]
	"Tequila" The Champs	"Don't" Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires	"Catch a Falling Star"	"Tequila" The Champs	^[13]
		"Catch a Falling Star" Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and The Ray Charles Singers	"Tequila"		^[14]
		"Tequila" The Champs			^[15]
					^[16]
		"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" Laurie London with Geoff Love			^[17]
	"Twilight Time" The Platters		"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"	"Twilight Time" The Platters	^[18]
	"Witch Doctor" David Seville			"Witch Doctor" David Seville	^[19]
			"Witch Doctor"		^[20]
	"All I Have to Do Is Dream"/"Claudette" The Everly Brothers	"Twilight Time" The Platters			^[21]
		"All I Have To Do Is Dream" The Everly Brothers	"All I Have To Do Is Dream"	"All I Have To Do Is Dream" The Everly Brothers	^[22]
					^[23]
					^[24]
	"The Purple People Eater" Sheb Wooley			"The Purple People Eater" Sheb Wooley	^[25]
			"The Purple People Eater"		^[26]
		"The Purple People Eater" ^Sheb Wooley			^[27]
					^[28]
					^[29]
					^[30]
	"Hard Headed Woman"/"Don't Ask Me Why" Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires	"Hard Headed Woman" Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires	"Hard Headed Woman"	"Yakety Yak" The Coasters	^[31]
		"Patricia" Pérez Prado and His Orchestra	"Patricia"	"Patricia" Pérez Prado and His Orchestra	^[32]
	"Poor Little Fool"	^[33]
	"Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)"	"Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)"	^[34]
	"Bird Dog"		^[35]
	"Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)"		^[36]
			^[37]
	"It's All in the Game" Tommy Edwards		^[38]
		"It's All in the Game"	^[39]
			^[40]
	^[41]
			^[42]
			^[43]
			^[44]
		"Tom Dooley"	^[45]

Hot 100

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Indicates best-performing single of 1958

	Issue Date	Song^[46]	Artist(s)	Reference
1		"Poor Little Fool"	Ricky Nelson	^[47]
				^[48]
2		"Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)"	Domenico Modugno	^[49]
3		"Little Star"	The Elegants	^[50]
re		"Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)"	Domenico Modugno	^[51]
				^[52]
				^[53]
				^[54]
4		"It's All in the Game"	Tommy Edwards	^[55]
				^[56]
				^[57]
				^[58] ^[59]
				^[60] ^[61]
				^[62] ^[63]
5		"It's Only Make Believe"	Conway Twitty	^[64] ^[65]
6		"Tom Dooley"	The Kingston Trio	^[66] ^[67]
re		"It's Only Make Believe"	Conway Twitty	^[68]
7		"To Know Him Is to Love Him"	The Teddy Bears	^[69]
				^[70]
				^[71]
8		"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"	The Chipmunks with David Seville	^[72]
				^[73]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one! Position! Artist! Weeks at No. 1

1	Tommy Edwards	6
2	Domenico Modugno	5
3	The Teddy Bears	3
4	Ricky Nelson	2
	Conway Twitty
	The Chipmunks with David Seville
7	The Elegants	1
	The Kingston Trio

See also

• 1958 in music
• Lists of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1958
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969

Further reading

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition

Notes and References

1. December 2, 2005 . Chart Beat Chat: Fred discusses Madonna & Elvis Presley chart facts, the Eurythmics & more with readers. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140930023858/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60472/chart-beat-chat . September 30, 2014 . October 4, 2019 . Billboard . Before there was a Hot 100, there were four different weekly charts. The main chart was Best Sellers in Stores, and that's the list Billboard uses as the pre-Hot 100 chart..
2. Book: Whitburn, Joel. 2013. Best Sellers Hot 100 Charts 1950s. Record Research Inc.. 978-0898202083. Joel Whitburn.
3. Book: Whitburn, Joel. December 1, 1992. Billboard Pop Charts 1955-1959. Record Research Inc.. 978-0898200928. Joel Whitburn.
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5. 13 January 1958 . [{{Google books |ayEEAAAAMBAJ |page=PA54 |plainurl=yes}} ''The Billboard'' Music Popularity Charts ]. The Billboard . 54, 58, 60, 64 . 23 September 2023.
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21. 12 May 1958 . [{{Google books |3QoEAAAAMBAJ |page=PA28 |plainurl=yes}} ''The Billboard'' Music Popularity Charts ]. The Billboard . 28, 30, 32, 36 . 2 October 2023.
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23. 26 May 1958 . [{{Google books |BAsEAAAAMBAJ |page=PA22 |plainurl=yes}} ''The Billboard'' Music Popularity Charts ]. The Billboard . 22, 28, 30, 34 . 4 October 2023.
24. 2 June 1958 . [{{Google books |BQsEAAAAMBAJ |page=PA26 |plainurl=yes}} ''The Billboard'' Music Popularity Charts ]. The Billboard . 26, 28, 30, 34 . 4 October 2023.
25. 9 June 1958 . [{{Google books |BwsEAAAAMBAJ |page=PA22 |plainurl=yes}} ''The Billboard'' Music Popularity Charts ]. The Billboard . 22, 24, 26, 29 . 6 October 2023.
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28. 30 June 1958 . [{{Google books |_AoEAAAAMBAJ |page=PA24 |plainurl=yes}} ''The Billboard'' Music Popularity Charts ]. The Billboard . 24, 26, 28, 34 . 6 October 2023.
29. 7 July 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 20, 22, 26, 28 . 6 October 2023.
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31. 21 July 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 48, 52, 56, 60 . 6 October 2023.
32. 28 July 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 26, 28, 30, 32 . 6 October 2023.
33. 11 August 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 30, 32, 34 . 6 October 2023.
34. 11 August 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 48, 50, 55 . 6 October 2023.
35. 25 August 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 26, 28, 30 . 8 October 2023.
36. 8 September 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 26, 30, 34 . 8 October 2023.
37. 22 September 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 22, 24, 30 . 8 October 2023.
38. 29 September 1958 . The Billboard Music Popularity Charts . The Billboard . 42, 44, 46 . 8 October 2023.
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