page_title: List of Hot Country Albums number ones of 1964
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Hot Country Albums number ones of 1964 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of singer Jim Reeves.
context_page_description: Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. The magazine had published an overall albums chart since 1945, but a chart specifically for country albums was not launched until the issue dated January 11, 1964. During the remainder of the year, nine different albums topped the chart, which was at the time published under the title Hot Country Albums, based on sales reports submitted by a representative sample of stores nationwide.
  The number-one album on the first published chart was the compilation album Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash. After a single week in the top spot it was displaced by Night Life by Ray Price. Cash's album returned to the top of the chart, however, in the issue of Billboard dated February 8 and remained there for 13 consecutive weeks, the year's longest unbroken run at number one. Cash achieved a second chart-topper in August with I Walk the Line, and the total of 18 weeks which he spent atop the chart was the most by any artist in 1964.
caption: Jim Reeves spent a total of 16 weeks at number one.  His album Moonlight and Roses was in the top spot when he died on July 31.
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