List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1963

[2] Robbins only held the number one position for a single week before the husband-and-wife duo returned to the top of the chart.

[3] Separating the song's three runs in the top spot during the spring of 1963 were two spells at number one for "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, the first song in the bluegrass genre to top the chart.

[9] Later in the year, both George Hamilton IV and Ernest Ashworth achieved their first Hot Country number ones.

The latter song was number one for the final eleven weeks of the year, the longest unbroken run at the top of the chart during 1963.

This set a new record for the longest unbroken run at number one on the Hot Country chart which would last for nearly 50 years, when Florida Georgia Line spent a seventeenth consecutive week atop the chart with "Cruise" in 2013.

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Johnny Cash , pictured performing with his band The Tennessee Three , had a long-running number one with " Ring of Fire ".
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Buck Owens began a record-breaking run at number one in October with " Love's Gonna Live Here ".
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George Hamilton IV (pictured in later life) topped the chart for the first time with " Abilene ".
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Earl Scruggs (pictured in later life) collaborated with Lester Flatt on the chart-topper " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ".