page_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1952
section_title: Best-Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records/National Best Sellers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1952 / Chart history / Best-Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records/National Best Sellers
caption_attribution_description: English: Hank Williams publicity photo for WSM in 1951.
context_page_description: In 1952 Billboard magazine published three charts covering the best-performing country music songs in the United States. At the start of the year the charts were published under the titles Most-Played Juke Box Records, Best-Selling Retail Folk Records and Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys. With effect from the issue of Billboard dated November 15, the titles of the charts were changed to Most Played in Juke Boxes, National Best Sellers, and Most Played By Jockeys respectively, with the genre denoted in an overall page title rather than in the titles of the charts themselves. All three charts are considered part of the lineage of the current Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
  In the first issue of Billboard of the year, "Slow Poke" by Pee Wee King was at number one on both the juke box and best sellers charts, and the top position on the jockeys chart was held by "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way" by Carl Smith.
caption: Hank Williams ended the year at number one on the Best Sellers chart.  He died on January 1, 1953.
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