These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums for each week in 1950.
Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Label | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
January 7 | Merry Christmas | Bing Crosby | Decca | [1] |
January 14 | South Pacific | Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza | Columbia | [2] |
January 21 | [3] | |||
January 28 | [4] | |||
February 4 | [5] | |||
February 11 | [6] | |||
February 18 | [7] | |||
February 25 | [8] | |||
March 4 | [9] | |||
March 11 | [10] | |||
March 18 | [11] | |||
March 25 | [12] | |||
April 1 | [13] | |||
April 8 | [14] | |||
April 15 | [15] | |||
April 22 | [16] | |||
April 29 | [17] | |||
May 6 | Cinderella | Ilene Woods with Full Cast / Children's Album | RCA Victor | [18] |
May 13 | Young Man with a Horn | Doris Day and Harry James | Columbia | [19] |
May 20[a] | [20] | |||
May 20[a] | Cinderella | Ilene Woods with Full Cast / Children's Album | RCA Victor | |
May 27 | Young Man with a Horn | Doris Day and Harry James | Columbia | [21] |
June 3 | South Pacific | Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza | Columbia | [22] |
June 10 | [23] | |||
June 17 | [24] | |||
June 24 | [25] | |||
July 1 | [26] | |||
July 8 | [27] | |||
July 15 | Young Man with a Horn | Doris Day and Harry James | Columbia | [28] |
Issue date | 33 1/3 R.P.M. | 45 R.P.M. | Ref. | ||||
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Album | Artist(s) | Label | Album | Artist(s) | Label | ||
July 22 | South Pacific | Mary Martin & Ezio Pinza | Columbia | Rodgers and Hammerstein II for Dancing | Ralph Flanagan | RCA Victor | [29] |
July 29 | Young Man with a Horn | Doris Day & Harry James | Columbia | [30] | |||
August 5 | [31] | ||||||
August 12 | South Pacific | Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza | Columbia | Annie Get Your Gun | Betty Hutton and Howard Keel | MGM | [32] |
August 19 | [33] | ||||||
August 26 | Young Man with a Horn | Doris Day & Harry James | Columbia | [34] | |||
September 2 | [35] | ||||||
September 9 | [36] | ||||||
September 16 | [37] | ||||||
September 23 | [38] | ||||||
September 30 | Three Little Words | Soundtrack | MGM | [39] | |||
October 7 | Three Little Words | Soundtrack | MGM | [40] | |||
October 14 | [41] | ||||||
October 21 | [42] | ||||||
October 28 | [43] | ||||||
November 4 | [44] | ||||||
November 11 | Annie Get Your Gun | Betty Hutton and Howard Keel | MGM | [45] | |||
November 18 | Three Little Words | Soundtrack | MGM | [46] | |||
November 25 | [47] | ||||||
December 2 | [48] | ||||||
December 9 | [49] | ||||||
December 16 | Merry Christmas | Bing Crosby | Decca | [50] | |||
December 23 | South Pacific | Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza | Columbia | [51] | |||
December 30 | Merry Christmas | Bing Crosby | Decca | [52] |