page_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1958
section_title: C&W Best Sellers in Stores
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1958 / Chart history / C&W Best Sellers in Stores
caption_attribution_description: English: Johnny Cash promotional portrait for Sun Records.
context_page_description: At the start of 1958, Billboard magazine published two charts specifically covering the top-performing country music songs in the United States. The C&W 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 country and western records". The Most Played C&W 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 C&W Sides, which has been published continuously since that date, currently under the title Hot Country Songs. In 1990 it changed to being based solely on airplay from country music radio stations, before reverting to a combined sales and airplay chart in 2012 but utilizing airplay data from stations of all formats as well as digital sales and streaming.
caption: Johnny Cash topped the Best Sellers chart for a total of sixteen weeks.
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