Billboard Top R&B Records of 1950

Billboard Top R&B Records of 1950 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 juke box plays.[1]

Retail
year-end[1]
Juke box
year-end[1]
Title Artist(s) Label
1 2 "Pink Champagne" Joe Liggins and His "Honeydrippers" Specialty
2 4 "Double Crossing Blues" Johnny Otis Quintette (vocals by The Robins and Little Esther) Savoy
3 10 "I Need You So" Ivory Joe Hunter M-G-M
4 20 "Hard Luck Blues" Roy Brown Deluxe
5 8 "Cupid's Boogie" Little Esther (with Mel Walker and Johnny Otis Orchestra) Savoy
6 1 "I Almost Lost My Mind" Ivory Joe Hunter M-G-M
7 11 "Well Oh Well" Tiny Bradshaw King
8 9 "Blue Light Boogie" Louis Jordan Decca
9 3 "For You My Love" Larry Darnell Regal
10 15 "Mistrustin' Blues" Little Esther, Mel Walker (accompanied by The Johnny Otis Orchestra) Savoy
11 5 "Every Day I Have the Blues" Lowell Fulson Swingtime
12 6 "Blue Shadows" Lowell Fulson Swingtime
13 13 "Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere" Joe Morris Atlantic
14 14 "Why Do Things Happen to Me?" Roy Hawkins Modern
15 7 "Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole Capitol
16 NR "I Wanna Be Loved" Dinah Washington Mercury
17 12 "Please Send Me Someone to Love" Percy Mayfield Specialty
18 NR "I Love My Baby" Larry Darnell Regal
19 23 "Saturday Night Fish Fry" Louis Jordan Decca
20 NR "Cry, Cry, Baby" Ed Wiley Sittin' In
21 24 "Teardrops from My Eyes" Ruth Brown Atlantic
22 25 "Love Don't Love Nobody" Roy Brown DeLuxe
23 16 "The Fat Man" Fats Domino Imperial
24 NR "My Baby's Gone" Charles Brown Aladdin
25 18 "Information Blues" Roy Milton Specialty
26 NR "I'm Yours to Keep" Herb Fisher Modern
27 29 "It Isn't Fair" Dinah Washington Mercury
28 22 "I'll Get Along Somehow" Larry Darnell Regal
29 NR "Bad, Bad Whiskey" Amos Milburn Aladdin
30 NR "Deceivin' Blues" Little Esther and Mel Walker (with Johnny Otis Orchestra) Savoy
NR 17 "Rag Mop" Lionel Hampton Decca
NR 19 "I'll Never Be Free" Paul Gayten, Annie Laurie Regal
NR 21 "Three Times Seven" Jewel King Imperial
NR 26 "I Quit My Pretty Mama" Ivory Joe Hunter King
NR 27 "Rag Mop" Doc Sausage Regal
NR 28 "School Days" Louis Jordan Decca
NR 29 "It Isn't Fair" Dinah Washington Mercury
NR 30 "Sittin' on It All the Time" Wynonie Harris King

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "The Year's Top Rhythm & Blues Records" (PDF). The Billboard. January 13, 1951. p. 20. Retrieved December 12, 2020.