This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country singles of 1964.[1]
Buck Owens had two of the top three singles with "My Heart Skips a Beat" (No. 1) and "Together Again" (No. 3). Owens had two additional No. 1 hits with "Love's Gonna Live Here" and "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)".
Jim Reeves, who died in a plane crash in July 1964, also had two top five singles with "Welcome to My World" (No. 2) and "I Guess I'm Crazy" (No. 4).
Rank
Peak[note 1][2]
Title
Artist(s)
Label
1
1
"My Heart Skips a Beat"
Buck Owens
Capitol
2
2
"Welcome to My World"
Jim Reeves
RCA Victor
3
1
"Together Again"
Buck Owens
Capitol
4
1
"I Guess I'm Crazy"
Jim Reeves
RCA Victor
5
4
"I Don't Love You Anymore"
Charlie Louvin
Capitol
6
1
"Saginaw, Michigan"
Lefty Frizzell
Columbia
7
2
"Burning Memories"
Ray Price
Columbia
8
1
"Understand Your Man"
Johnny Cash
Columbia
9
1
"Dang Me"
Roger Miller
Smash
10
2
"Memory #1"
Webb Pierce
Decca
11
7
"This White Circle On My Finger"
Kitty Wells
Decca
12
4
"I Love to Dance with Annie"
Ernest Ashworth
Hickory
13
4
"Password"
Kitty Wells
Decca
14
5
"Keeping Up with the Joneses"
Faron Young and Margie Singleton
Mercury
15
3
"The Cowboy in the Continental Suit"
Marty Robbins
Columbia
16
3
"Wine, Women and Song"
Loretta Lynn
Decca
17
1
"B.J. the D.J."
Stonewall Jackson
Columbia
18
5
"Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)"
Jean Shepard
Capitol
19
1
"Begging to You"
Marty Robbins
Columbia
20
3
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes"
Johnny Cash
Columbia
21
1
"I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)"
Buck Owens
Capitol
22
7
"Looking for More in '64"
Jim Nesbitt
Chart
23
5
"Sorrow On the Rocks"
Porter Wagoner
RCA Victor
24
4
"Before I'm Over You"
Loretta Lynn
Columbia
25
5
"Five Little Fingers"
Bill Anderson
Decca
26 (tie)
7
"Love Is No Excuse"
Jim Reeves and Dottie West
RCA Victor
26 (tie)
5
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues"
Hank Williams, Jr.
M-G-M
28
10
"A Week in the Country"
Ernest Ashworth
Hickory
29
12
"Then I'll Stop Loving You"
The Browns
RCA Victor
30
"Circumstances"
Billy Walker
Columbia
31
4
"Don't Be Angry"
Stonewall Jackson
Columbia
32
5
"Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right)"
George Jones
United Artists
33
1
"Love's Gonna Live Here"
Buck Owens
Capitol
34
13
Timber I'm Falling
Ferlin Husky
Capitol
35
5
"Molly"
Eddy Arnold
RCA Victor
36
11
"Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be"
Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn
Decca
37
13
"Invisible Tears"
Ned Miller
Fabar
38
6
"Baltimore"
Sonny James
Capitol
39
7
"Please Talk to My Heart"
Ray Price
Columbia
40
3
"Chug-a-Lug"
Roger Miller
Smash
41
11
"Sam Hill"
Claude King
Columbia
42
8
"Peel Me a Nanner"
Roy Drusky
Mercury
43
1
"Once a Day"
Connie Smith
RCA Victor
44
3
"The Race Is On"
George Jones
United Artists
45
4
"Miller's Cave"
Bobby Bare
RCA Victor
46 (tie)
9
"D.J. for a Day"
Jimmy C. Newman
Decca
46 (tie)
12
"You Are My Flower"
Flatt & Scruggs
Columbia
48 (tie)
10
"Where Does a Little Tear Come From"
George Jones
United Artists
48 (tie)
14
"Easy Come – Easy Go"
Bill Anderson
Decca
50
10
"Here Comes My Baby"
Dottie West
RCA Victor
^"Top Country Singles - 1964" (PDF). The Billboard. December 26, 1964. p. 14.
^Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0823076326.
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