List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1959

Bobby Darin spent nine weeks at number one in 1959, the most by any act.

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart published by Billboard magazine which ranks the best-performing singles in the United States. In 1959, it was compiled based on a combination of sales and airplay data sourced from surveys of retail outlets and playlists submitted by radio stations respectively,Template:Sfn and 16 different singles spent time at number one.

In the issue of Billboard dated January 5, the Chipmunks with David Seville were at number one with "The Chipmunk Song", the single's third week in the top spot.<ref name=J5 /> The single remained at number one for a further week before being displaced by "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by the Platters in the issue dated January 19. Not until 2019 would another Christmas song top the Hot 100,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> albeit for much of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s holiday-themed songs were excluded from the chart.Template:Sfn

Every act to top the Hot 100 in 1959 did so for the first time since the chart was launched in August 1958.Template:Sfn The Platters, Paul Anka, Elvis Presley, and Guy Mitchell had all achieved number ones on the separate sales, airplay, and jukebox play charts which Billboard had published prior to the creation of the consolidated Hot 100, as had Seville without the Chipmunks.Template:Sfn The Fleetwoods and Frankie Avalon were the only acts to have two number ones in 1959, but neither act would top the Hot 100 again.Template:Sfn Bobby Darin spent nine non-consecutive weeks at number one with "Mack the Knife", making it the year's longest-running number one and Darin the act with the most weeks in the top spot. At the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards in November 1959, the song won the award for Record of the Year,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but it would prove to be Darin's only number one on the Hot 100.Template:Sfn In the first of its two spells atop the chart, "Mack the Knife" spent six weeks at number one, tying with "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton for the year's longest unbroken run in the peak position.

Chart history

Lloyd Price spent four weeks at number one with his version of the traditional song "Stagger Lee".

Frankie Avalon was one of only two acts to achieve two number ones in 1959.

Elvis Presley topped the chart with "A Big Hunk o' Love".

Key

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Indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1959 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

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Template:AbbrTemplate:Sfn	Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Template:Abbr
8	January 5	"Template:Sort"	Template:Sort with David Seville	<ref name=J5>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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9	January 19	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"	Template:Sort	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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10	February 9	"Stagger Lee"	Template:Sortname	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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19	September 21	"Sleep Walk"	Santo & Johnny	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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20	October 5	"Mack the Knife"	Template:Sortname	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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21	November 16	"Mr. Blue"	Template:Sort	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
re	November 23	"Mack the Knife"	Template:Sortname	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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22	December 14	"Heartaches by the Number"	Template:Sortname	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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23	December 28	"Why"	Template:Sortname	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Bobby Darin	9
2	Johnny Horton	6
	Frankie Avalon
4	The Fleetwoods	5
5	Lloyd Price	4
	Paul Anka
	The Browns
8	The Platters	3
9	The Chipmunks with David Seville	2
	Wilbert Harrison
	Elvis Presley
	Santo & Johnny
	Guy Mitchell
14	Dave "Baby" Cortez	1

See also

• 1959 in music
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1959
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969

References

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