page_title: List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1958
section_title: R&B Best Sellers in Stores and R&B Most Played by Jockeys
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1958 / Chart history / R&B Best Sellers in Stores and R&B Most Played by Jockeys
caption_attribution_description: English: Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.
context_page_description: At the start of 1958, Billboard magazine published two charts specifically covering the top-performing songs in the United States in African-American-oriented music genres. The R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart ranked records based on their "current national selling importance at the retail level", based on a survey of record retailers "with a high volume of sales in rhythm and blues records" and the Most Played R&B by Jockeys chart ranked songs based on the "number of plays on disk jockey radio shows" according to a weekly survey of "top disk jockey shows in all key markets". With effect from the October 20 issue of Billboard the magazine discontinued both charts and combined sales and airplay into one chart called Hot R&B Sides, which has been published continuously since that date, currently under the title Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
  In the issue of Billboard dated January 6, Danny & the Juniors were at number one on the Best Sellers chart with "At the Hop" and Ernie Freeman held the top spot on the Jockeys chart with "Raunchy". Two weeks later, Freeman's single was replaced at number one by Bill Justis's recording of the same tune.
caption: David Seville gained a number one with the novelty song "Witch Doctor".
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