| Cover | | Date   | Title • Artist
Album | Points
| Charts Peaks | Comment |
|---|
![Hound Dog [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14219.jpg "Hound Dog [article]") | 1. | 08/1956 | | 450
 | US ✫1
UK 2
US country ✫1
US R&B ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #19] US: B-side to Don't Be Cruel; hit for Big Mama Thornton in 1953; charted as Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog in US Hot 100 charts
written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller |
| 2. | 10/1956 | | 439
| US ✫1
UK ✫1
US R&B 4 | written by Melvin Endsley |
![Heartbreak Hotel [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14212.jpg "Heartbreak Hotel [article]") | 3. | 03/1956 | | 425
| US ✫1
UK 2
US country ✫1
US R&B 3 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #45]
written by Mae Boren Axton, Thomas Durden |
| 4. | 12/1956 | | 365
| US ✫1
UK 2
US R&B 10 | |
| 5. | 07/1956 | | 341
| US ✫1
UK 4
US R&B ✫1 | hit for Glenn Miller in 1939
written by Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy |
| 6. | 02/1956 | | 334
| US 6
UK ✫1
US R&B ✫1 | as The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #307]
written by Frankie Lymon, Morris Levy |
![Love Me Tender [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14222.jpg "Love Me Tender [article]") | 7. | 10/1956 | | 327
| US ✫1
UK 11
US country 3
US R&B 3 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #437] adapted from "Aura Lee", 1861
written by Vera Matson, Elvis Presley, George R. Poulton (uncredited), Ken Darby (uncredited) |
| 8. | 12/1956 | | 320
| US ✫1
UK 11
US country ✫1
US R&B 3 | written by Ric Cartey, Carole Joyner |
![Don't Be Cruel [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14218.jpg "Don't Be Cruel [article]") | 9. | 08/1956 | | 311
| US ✫1
US country ✫1
US R&B ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #197] charted as Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog in US Hot 100 charts
written by Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley |
| 10. | 10/1956 | | 307
| US 2
UK 6
US R&B ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #81] #1 hit for Glenn Miller in 1940
written by Vincent Rose, Al Lewis, Larry Stock |
| 11. | 09/1956 | | 303
| US ✫1
UK 8
US R&B 5 | written by Bob Davie, Marvin Moore |
![I Want You, I Need You, I Love You [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14216.jpg "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You [article]") | 12. | 05/1956 | | 293
| US ✫1
UK 14
US country ✫1
US R&B 3 | written by Maurice Mysels, Ira Kosloff |
![Blue Suede Shoes [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_7825.jpg "Blue Suede Shoes [article]") | 13. | 03/1956 | | 288
| US 2
UK 10
US country ✫1
US R&B 2 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #95]
written by Carl Perkins |
| 14. | 04/1956 | | 285
| US 6
UK 3
US R&B ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #56] |
| 15. | 04/1956 | | 252
| US 3
UK 12
US R&B ✫1 | |
| 16. | 01/1956 | | 237
| US 6
UK 7
US R&B 7 | |
| 17. | 12/1956 | | 215
| US 4
UK 15
US R&B 14 | |
| 18. | 08/1956 | | 214
| US 2
US R&B ✫1 | |
| 19. | 06/1956 | | 210
| US 7
UK 16
US country 5
US R&B 8 | as Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #102] |
| 20. | 11/1956 | | 201
| US 2
US country 10
US R&B 7 | US: from Elvis, Volume 1 EP
written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller |
| 21. | 07/1956 | | 194
| US 2
US R&B 7 | written by Eddie Heywood |
| 22. | 03/1956 | | 172
| US 4
US R&B 4 | |
| 23. | 08/1956 | | 170
| US 3
US R&B 4 | |
| 24. | 07/1956 | | 159
| US 7
US country 14
US R&B 5 | |
| 25. | 05/1956 | | 112
| US 16
UK 27
US R&B ✫1 | |
| 26. | 07/1956 | | 107
| US 17
UK 30
US R&B ✫1 | |
![Tutti Frutti [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_26084.jpg "Tutti Frutti [article]") | 27. | 01/1956 | | 107
| US 17
UK 29
US R&B 2 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #43]
written by Little Richard, Dorothy LaBostrie |
| 28. | 03/1956 | | 100
| US 11
US R&B 5 | as Otis Williams and His Charms
written by Jack Fulton, Lois Steele |
| 29. | 11/1956 | | 98
| US 12
US R&B ✫1 | written by Ivory Joe Hunter |
| 30. | 12/1956 | | 92
| US 17
US R&B ✫1 | as LaVern Baker & The Gliders
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #343]
written by Lincoln Chase |
| 31. | 04/1956 | | 88
| US 13
US R&B 3 | |
| 32. | 09/1956 | | 87
| US 11
US R&B 9 | |
| 33. | 03/1956 | | 87
| US 14
US R&B 2 | written by Aaron Collins |
| 34. | 07/1956 | | 85
| US 14
US R&B 2 | hit for Guy Lombardo in 1937 |
| 35. | 04/1956 | | 80
| US 19
US R&B 5 | B side to I'm in Love Again; #1 hit for Paul Whiteman in 1927
written by Walter Donaldson, George A. Whiting |
| 36. | 09/1956 | | 79
| US 13
US R&B 10 | B side to You'll Never Never Know |
| 37. | 08/1956 | | 77
| US 20
US R&B ✫1 | written by Leonard Lee |
| 38. | 07/1956 | | 77
| US 15
US R&B 4 | |
| 39. | 07/1956 | | 76
| US 16
US R&B 15 | as Nat "King" Cole and the Four Knights |
| 40. | 11/1956 | | 74
| US 17
US R&B 3 | |
