Billboard Top R&B Records of 1950 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and juke box plays.
Retailyear-end Juke boxyear-end Title Artist(s) Label1 2 "Pink Champagne" Joe Liggins and His "Honeydrippers" Specialty2 4 "Double Crossing Blues" Johnny Otis Quintette (vocals by The Robins and Little Esther) Savoy3 10 "I Need You So" Ivory Joe Hunter M-G-M4 20 "Hard Luck Blues" Roy Brown Deluxe5 8 "Cupid's Boogie" Little Esther (with Mel Walker and Johnny Otis Orchestra) Savoy6 1 "I Almost Lost My Mind" Ivory Joe Hunter M-G-M7 11 "Well Oh Well" Tiny Bradshaw King8 9 "Blue Light Boogie" Louis Jordan Decca9 3 "For You My Love" Larry Darnell Regal10 15 "Mistrustin' Blues" Little Esther, Mel Walker (accompanied by The Johnny Otis Orchestra) Savoy11 5 "Every Day I Have the Blues" Lowell Fulson Swingtime12 6 "Blue Shadows" Lowell Fulson Swingtime13 13 "Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere" Joe Morris Atlantic14 14 "Why Do Things Happen to Me?" Roy Hawkins Modern15 7 "Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole Capitol16 NR "I Wanna Be Loved" Dinah Washington Mercury17 12 "Please Send Me Someone to Love" Percy Mayfield Specialty18 NR "I Love My Baby" Larry Darnell Regal19 23 "Saturday Night Fish Fry" Louis Jordan Decca20 NR "Cry, Cry, Baby" Ed Wiley Sittin' In21 24 "Teardrops from My Eyes" Ruth Brown Atlantic22 25 "Love Don't Love Nobody" Roy Brown DeLuxe23 16 "The Fat Man" Fats Domino Imperial24 NR "My Baby's Gone" Charles Brown Aladdin25 18 "Information Blues" Roy Milton Specialty26 NR "I'm Yours to Keep" Herb Fisher Modern27 29 "It Isn't Fair" Dinah Washington Mercury28 22 "I'll Get Along Somehow" Larry Darnell Regal29 NR "Bad, Bad Whiskey" Amos Milburn Aladdin30 NR "Deceivin' Blues" Little Esther and Mel Walker (with Johnny Otis Orchestra) SavoyNR 17 "Rag Mop" Lionel Hampton DeccaNR 19 "I'll Never Be Free" Paul Gayten, Annie Laurie RegalNR 21 "Three Times Seven" Jewel King ImperialNR 26 "I Quit My Pretty Mama" Ivory Joe Hunter KingNR 27 "Rag Mop" Doc Sausage RegalNR 28 "School Days" Louis Jordan DeccaNR 29 "It Isn't Fair" Dinah Washington MercuryNR 30 "Sittin' on It All the Time" Wynonie Harris King
See also List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1950 Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1950 1950 in music
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