page_title: List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1947
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1947 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Eddy Arnold performing on the television program Kraft Music Hall.
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 1947, 9 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records, in 52 issues of the magazine. In the issues of Billboard dated September 6 through November 1 the chart was titled Most Played Juke Box Hillbilly Records before reverting to its original name. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.
  The number-one position was dominated in 1947 by three artists who between them spent 47 weeks in the top spot. At the start of the year, Merle Travis was at number one with "Divorce Me C.O.D." which had been in the top spot since the issue of Billboard dated October 26, 1946, and spent three further non-consecutive weeks atop the chart in 1947.
caption: Eddy Arnold (pictured in 1969) topped the chart for the first time in 1947.  He would go on to become one of the most successful singers in country music history.
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