page_title: List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1946
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1946 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Tex Ritter, who is the father of actor John Ritter.
context_page_description: Billboard magazine published a chart that ranked the top-performing country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in jukeboxes, from 1944 until 1957; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart. In 1946, 9 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records, in 52 issues of the magazine. The chart was compiled based on a survey of jukebox operators nationwide, and its methodology allowed for the possibility of records tying for a position. On several occasions during 1946 two or more different songs tied for the number one spot, including the issue of Billboard dated February 2, when four songs tied for the number-one position. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
  In 1946 the number one position was dominated by two records which each spent 16 weeks in the top spot and which between them topped the chart from February to September. In the issue of Billboard dated February 2, "Guitar Polka" by Al Dexter reached number one for the first time, albeit jointly with three other songs.
context_section_description: a. Multiple songs tied for the number one position.
caption: "You Will Have to Pay" was the final number one for Tex Ritter.
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