# 1930 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1930.

## Events

* December 31 – Record sales dropped 50% from 1929.

## Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings

The following songs were extracted from records included in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954, record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified. Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label | Recorded | Released | Chart Positions |
| 1 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Anniversary Yodel (Blue Yodel No. 7)" | Victor 22488 | November 26, 1929 (1929-11-26) | September 5, 1930 (1930-09-05) | US BB 1930 #204, US #19 for 1 week, US Hillbilly 1930 #1, 77,235 sales |
| 2 | Jimmie Rodgers | "In the Jailhouse Now No. 2" | Victor 22523 | July 12, 1930 (1930-07-12) | October 13, 1930 (1930-10-13) | US Hillbilly 1930 #2 |
| 3 | McKinney's Cotton Pickers | "If I Could Be with You One Hour To-night" | Victor 38115 | January 31, 1930 (1930-01-31) | July 1930 (1930-07) | US BB 1930 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 19 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #3 |
| 4 | Beverly Hill Billies | "When the Bloom is on the Sage" | Brunswick 421 | January 31, 1930 (1930-01-31) | May 1930 (1930-05) | US BB 1930 #73, US #7 for 1 week, 14 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #4 |
| 5 | Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett | "Soldier's Joy" | Columbia 15538 | October 29, 1929 (1929-10-29) | April 1930 (1930-04) | US Hillbilly 1930 #5 |
| 6 | Carter Family | "When the World's on Fire" | Victor 40293 | May 24, 1930 (1930-05-24) | August 1930 (1930-08) | US Hillbilly 1930 #6, 30,837 sales |
| 7 | Carter Family | "Worried Man Blues" | Victor 40317 | May 24, 1930 (1930-05-24) | September 1930 (1930-09) | US BB 1930 #142, US #14 for 1 weeks, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #7, 24,373 sales |
| 8 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Any Old Time" | Victor 22488 | February 21, 1929 (1929-02-21) | August 1930 (1930-08) | US Hillbilly 1930 #8, 77,235 sales |
| 9 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Frankie and Johnnie" / "Everybody Does It in Hawaii" | Victor 22143 | August 10, 1929 (1929-08-10) | November 22, 1929 (1929-11-22) | US Hillbilly 1930 #9 |
| 10 | G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter | "Tom Dooley" | Victor 40235 | September 30, 1929 (1929-09-30) | May 1930 (1930-05) | US Hillbilly 1930 #10 |
| 11 | Beverly Hill Billies | ""My Pretty Quadroon" | Brunswick 441 | May 1, 1930 (1930-05-01) | August 1930 (1930-08) | US BB 1930 #153, US #15 for 1 week, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1930 #11 |
| 12 | Alex Hood and His Railroad Boys | "Corbin Slide" | Vocalion 5463 | April 1, 1930 (1930-04-01) | November 1930 (1930-11) | US Hillbilly 1930 #12 |
| 13 | Cannon’s Jug Stompers | "Walk Right In" | Victor 38611 | October 1, 1929 (1929-10-01) | September 12, 1930 (1930-09-12) | US Hillbilly 1930 #13, Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007 |
| 14 | Jimmie Davis | "My Dixie Sweetheart" | Victor 40302 | May 19, 1930 (1930-05-19) | October 3, 1930 (1930-10-03) | US Hillbilly 1930 #14, 6,415 sales |
| 15 | Kentucky Ramblers | "With My Mother Dead And Gone" | Paramount 3283 | September 1, 1930 (1930-09-01) | October 1930 (1930-10) | US Hillbilly 1930 #15 |
| 16 | Blue Steele Orchestra | "Missouri Moon" | Victor 23501 | May 13, 1930 (1930-05-13) | August 1930 (1930-08) | US Hillbilly 1930 #16, 3,955 sales |
| 17 | Floyd County Ramblers | "Sunny Tennessee" | Victor 40307 | August 29, 1930 (1930-08-29) | October 17, 1930 (1930-10-17) | US Hillbilly 1930 #17, 3,672 sales |
| 18 | Bud Billings and Carson Robison | "Carry Me Back To the Mountains" | Victor V-40322 | July 1, 1930 (1930-07-01) | November 21, 1930 (1930-11-21) | US Hillbilly 1930 #18, 3,584 sales |
| 19 | Carter Family | "John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man" | Victor 40190 | May 10, 1928 (1928-05-10) | December 4, 1929 (1929-12-04) | US Hillbilly 1930 #19 |
| 20 | Jimmie Rodgers | "My Rough and Rowdy Ways / Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues" | Victor 22220 | October 22, 1929 (1929-10-22) | February 1930 (1930-02) | US Hillbilly 1930 #20 |
| 21 | Stuart Hamblen | "The Big Rock Candy Mountains, No. 2" | Victor 40319 | June 6, 1929 (1929-06-06) | November 1930 (1930-11) | US Hillbilly 1930 #21, 3,159 sales |

## Births

* January 7 – Jack Greene, star of the 1960s and 1970s ("There Goes My Everything") and longtime Grand Ole Opry star (died 2013).
* June 22- Roy Drusky, Grand ole opry star
* September 23 – Ray Charles, blind African-American pop singer who recorded a series of influential country music albums, starting with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (died 2004).
* September 28 – Tommy Collins, singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield Sound (died 2000).
* November 20 – Curly Putman, songwriter (died 2016).