| | Pop | R&B | Date | Label | Artist | Song | Composer |
|---|
| | 119 | 7 | Jun-1961 | Kent | B.B. King | Peace Of Mind | Joe Josea, Riley King |
| | 4 | 1 | May-1961 | Atlantic | Ben E. King | Stand By Me | King-Glick |
| | 43 | 1 | Feb-1961 | Duke | Bobby Bland | I Pity The Fool | Deadric Malone |
| | 1 | 1 | Jul-1961 | Beltone | Bobby Lewis | Tossin' And Turnin' | Ritchie Adams, Malou Rene |
| | 1 | 4 | Dec-1961 | Parkway | Chubby Checker | The Twist | Hank Ballard |
| | 1 | 1 | Feb-1961 | Parkway | Chubby Checker | Pony Time | John Berry, Don Covay |
| | 30 | 6 | Oct-1961 | Motown | Eddie Holland | Jamie | William Stevenson |
| | 1 | 1 | Apr-1961 | Minit | Ernie K-Doe | Mother-In-Law | Allen Toussaint |
| | 14 | 2 | Jul-1961 | Sue | Ike & Tina Turner | It's Gonna Work Out Fine | J Lee, Joe Seneca |
| | 38 | 4 | Dec-1961 | Sue | Ike & Tina Turner | Poor Fool | Ike Turner |
| | 40 | 8 | Apr-1961 | King | James Brown & the Famous Flames | Bewildered | Whitcup-Powell |
| | 47 | 4 | Jun-1961 | King | James Brown & the Famous Flames | I Don't Mind | James Brown |
| | 49 | 2 | Aug-1961 | King | James Brown & the Famous Flames | Baby You're Right | James Brown-Joe Tex |
| | 7 | 1 | Nov-1961 | Fury | Lee Dorsey | YA YA | Dorsey, Levy, Lewis, Robinson |
| | 3 | 2 | Jul-1961 | Satellite | Mar-Keys | Last Night | Axton-Caple-Newman-Smith-Moman |
| | 8 | 1 | Apr-1961 | Impulse | Ray Charles | One Mint Julep | Rudy Toombs |
| | 1 | 1 | Oct-1961 | ABC-Paramount | Ray Charles | Hit The Road Jack | Ray Charles |
| | 23 | 16 | Apr-1961 | Atlantic | The Coasters | Little Egypt (Ying-Yang) | Leiber-Stoller |
| | 3 | 1 | Sep-1961 | Beltone | The Jive Five | My True Story | Eugene Pitt, Oscar Waltzer |
| | 1 | 1 | Mar-1961 | Colpix | The Marcels | Blue Moon | Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers |
| | 1 | 1 | Aug-1961 | Motown/Tamla | The Marvelettes | Please Mr. Postman | Dobbins-Garrett-Holland-Bateman-Gorman |
| | 6 | 1 | Jun-1961 | Vee-Jay | The Pips | Every Beat Of My Heart | Johnny Otis |
| | 3 | 2 | Feb-1961 | Sceptre | The Shirelles | Dedicated to the One I Love | Pauling-Bass |
| | 4 | 2 | May-1961 | Sceptre | The Shirelles | Mama Said | Dixon-Denson |
