This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1962.
The year's No. 1 record was "Wolverton Mountain" by Claude King. The record debuted on Billboards country and western chart in May 1962, spent nine weeks at the No. 1 spot, and remained on the chart for 26 weeks.
RCA Victor led all other labels with 13 records included on the year-end chart. Columbia Records followed with 10 records on the year-end chart.
Rank PeakThis column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts. Title Artist(s) Label1 1 "Wolverton Mountain" Claude King Columbia2 1 "Misery Loves Company" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor3 1 "She Thinks I Still Care" George Jones United Artists4 1 "Charlie's Shoes" Billy Walker Columbia5 2 "Adios Amigo" Jim Reeves RCA Victor6 3 "A Wound Time Can't Erase" Stonewall Jackson Columbia7 1 "She's Got You" Patsy Cline Decca8 1 "Walk on By" Leroy Van Dyke Mercury9 4 "Trouble's Back in Town" The Wilburn Brothers Decca10 2 "Losing Your Love" Jim Reeves RCA Victor11 3 "A Little Heartache" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor12 2 "Lonesome Number One" Don Gibson RCA Victor13 4 "The Comeback" Faron Young Capitol14 1 "That's My Pa" Sheb Wooley M-G-M15 2 "A Little Bitty Tear" Burl Ives Decca16 1 "Devil Woman" Marty Robbins Columbia17 1 "Mama Sang a Song" Bill Anderson Decca18 5 "Alla My Love" Webb Pierce Decca19 3 "Everybody But Me" Ernest Ashworth Hickory20 5 "I Can Mend Your Broken Heart" Don Gibson RCA Victor21 2 "Crazy" Patsy Cline Decca22 3 "If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone)" Leroy Van Dyke Mercury23 5 "Unloved, Unwanted" Kitty Wells Decca24 6 "Success" Loretta Lynn Decca25 11 "Nobody's Fool But Yours" Buck Owens Capitol26 3 "PT 109" Jimmy Dean Columbia27 4 "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" Johnny Tillotson Cadence28 3 "Old Rivers" Walter Brennan Liberty29 2 "I'm Gonna Change Everything" Jim Reeves RCA Victor30 8 "Crazy Wild Desire" Webb Pierce Decca31 3 "Soft Rain" Ray Price Columbia32 1 "Big Bad John" Jimmy Dean Columbia33 9 "Funny Way of Laughing" Burl Ives Decca34 3 "Call Me Mr. In-Between" Burl Ives Decca35 5 "Aching, Breaking Heart" George Jones Mercury36 7 "Three Days" Faron Young Capitol37 7 "Take Time" Webb Pierce Decca38 11 "Air Mail to Heaven" Carl Smith Columbia39 10 "Happy Journey" Hank Locklin RCA Victor40 7 "What I Feel in My Heart" Jim Reeves RCA Victor41 "I've Been Everywhere" Hank Snow RCA Victor42 10 "When I Get Through with You" Patsy Cline Decca43 "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" Johnny Cash Columbia44 "If You Don't Know I Ain't Gonna Tell You" George Hamilton IV RCA Victor45 7 "After Loving You" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor46 7 "Tears Broke Out on Me" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor47 "Willingly" Shirley Collie & Willie Nelson Liberty48 "Footsteps of a Fool" Judy Lynn United Artists49 "Touch Me" Willie Nelson Liberty50 "Willie the Weeper" Billy Walker Columbia
See also List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1962 List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1962 1962 in country music
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