title: List of Hot Country Albums number ones of 1964
text: # List of Hot Country Albums number ones of 1964
  
  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. Cash is regarded as one of the most influential and successful country music artists of all time and his recording career spanned six decades, but his success on the albums chart was largely confined to the 1960s; after 1971 he would not achieve another number one until after his 2003 death.
  
  In addition to Cash, two other vocalists achieved two chart-topping albums in 1964. Buck Owens spent two weeks at number one in January and February with Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins and six weeks atop the chart with Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat, which was the year's final chart-topper. Owens was one of the biggest stars in country music in the mid-1960s, achieving a run of 15 consecutive chart-toppers on the Hot Country Singles chart between 1963 and 1967. Jim Reeves spent eight weeks at number one on the albums listing beginning in the issue of Billboard dated July 4 with Moonlight and Roses and the same amount of time in the top spot with The Best of Jim Reeves beginning in the issue dated September 26. Moonlight and Roses was at number one when Reeves died in an aviation accident on July 31. The Best of Jim Reeves also entered the top 10 of Billboard's all-genre albums chart, at the time known as Top LPs, his only release to do so. On the country albums chart he would go on to achieve many more posthumous top 10 hits. Every album to reach number one in 1964 was by a male vocalist; it would not be until July 1965 that an album by a female artist would top the chart for the first time.
  
  ## Chart history
  
  | Issue date | Title | Artist(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | January 11 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | January 18 | Night Life | Ray Price |
  | January 25 | Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins | Buck Owens |
  | February 1 | Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins | Buck Owens |
  | February 8 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | February 15 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | February 22 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | February 29 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | March 7 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | March 14 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | March 21 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | March 28 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | April 4 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | April 11 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | April 18 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | April 25 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | May 2 | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash |
  | May 9 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
  | May 16 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
  | May 23 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
  | May 30 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
  | June 6 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
  | June 13 | Guitar Country | Chet Atkins |
  | June 20 | More Hank Snow Souvenirs | Hank Snow |
  | June 27 | More Hank Snow Souvenirs | Hank Snow |
  | July 4 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | July 11 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | July 18 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | July 25 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | August 1 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | August 8 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | August 15 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | August 22 | Moonlight and Roses | Jim Reeves |
  | August 29 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
  | September 5 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
  | September 12 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
  | September 19 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash |
  | September 26 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | October 3 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | October 10 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | October 17 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | October 24 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | October 31 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | November 7 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | November 14 | The Best of Jim Reeves | Jim Reeves |
  | November 21 | Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos |
  | November 28 | Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos |
  | December 5 | Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos |
  | December 12 | Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos |
  | December 19 | Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos |
  | December 26 | Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens and his Buckaroos |
  