BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S TOP R&B SINGLES FOR 1951*
(Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records Charts) (Magazine’s Chart)
No.-Song-Artist-Month Peaked on charts
1 SIXTY MINUTE MAN-DOMINOES-JULY
2 BLACK NIGHT-CHARLES BROWN-May 3 TEARDROPS FROM MY EYES-RUTH BROWN-February 4 CHAINS OF LOVE-JOE TURNER-September 5 DON'T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU-THE CLOVERS-September 6 PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE-PERCY MAYFIELD-January 7 I'M WAITING JUST FOR YOU-LUCKY MILLINDER-July 8 GLORY OF LOVE-Five Keys-October 9 ROCKET 88-Jackie Brenston-June 10 ROCKIN' BLUES-Johnny Otis & Mel Walker-March 11 Bad,Bad Whiskey-Amos Milburn-January 12 Fool,Fool,Fool-The Clovers-November 13 Lost Love-Percy Mayfield-May 14 I'm In The Mood-John Lee Hooker-November 15 I Got Loaded-Peppermint Harris-December 16 Anytime,Anyplace,Anywhere-Joe Morris-January 17 Too Young-Nat "King" Cole-June 18 Red's Boogie-Piano Red-April 19 Seven Long Days-Charles Brown-November 20 Do Something For Me-Dominoes-March 21 Don't Take Your Love From Me-Joe Morris-April 22 I Apologize-Billy Eckstine-May 23 Tend To Your Business-James Waynes-May 24 Smooth Sailing-Ella Fitzgerald-October 25 I Will Wait-Four Buddies-May 26 Because Of You-Tab Smith-December 27 Gee,Baby-Johnny Otis & Mel Walker-June 28 "I" 99 Blues-Jimmy Nelson-September 29 Baby,Let Me Hold Your Hand-Ray Charles-March 30 Flamingo-Earl Bostic-December * As published in the January 12th,1952 issue of Billboard (US) Magazine.