| The CASH BOX Best Selling Pop Albums | ||||
| Week ending DECEMBER 15, 1956 | ||||
| TW | TITLE | Artist (Label LP / EP) | LW | WKS | |
| 1 | ELVIS Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1382 / EPB 1382) | 1 | 7 | |
| 2 | CALYPSO Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1248 / EPB-1248) | 2 | 27 | |
| 3 | MY FAIR LADY Original Broadway Cast (Columbia Masterworks OL 5090) | 3 | 35 | |
| 4 | THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY Original Sound Track / Carmen Cavallaro (Decca DL 8289 / ED 844) | 4 | 31 | |
| 5 | HIGH SOCIETY Original Sound Track (Capitol W 750 / EDM-750) | 5 | 21 | |
| 6 | THE KING AND I Original Sound Track (Capitol W 740 / EDM-740) | 6 | 22 | |
| 7 | OKLAHOMA! Sound Track (Capitol SAO 595 / FDM 595) | 7 | 68 | |
| 8 | ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1254 / EPB 1254) | 8 | 39 | |
| 9 | MANHATTAN TOWER Gordon Jenkins & Orchestra (Capitol T 766 / EDM-766) | 9 | 6 | |
| 10 | SAY IT WITH MUSIC Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57041 / EC 57041) | 10 | 22 | |
| 11 | BELAFONTE Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1150 / EPB 1150 / EPA-693,4,5) | 13 | 44 | |
| 12 | SONGS FOR SWINGIN’ LOVERS! Frank Sinatra (Capitol W 653 / EAP 653) | 12 | 39 | |
| 13 | CALENDAR GIRL Julie London (Liberty SL 9002 / LEP-1,2,3-9002) | 18 | 2 | |
| 14 | THIS IS SINATRA Frank Sinatra (Capitol T 768) | 21 | 3 | |
| 15 | THE PLATTERS Platters (Mercury MG-20146) | 14 | 26 | |
| 16 | HOWDY! Pat Boone (Dot DLP-3030) | 15 | 12 | |
| 17 | JERRY LEWIS JUST SINGS Jerry Lewis (Decca DL 8410 / ED 2455,6,7) | — | 1 | |
| 18 | ELLA AND LOUIS Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (Verve MG V-4003) | 11 | 8 | |
| 19 | FRESHMEN FAVORITES Four Freshmen (Capitol T 743 / EAP 1,2,3-743) | 16 | 16 | |
| 20 | THE ELGART TOUCH Les Elgart & Orchestra (Columbia CL 875 / B-8751,2,3) | 17 | 7 | |
| 21 | MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM LAWRENCE WELK AND HIS CHAMPAGNE MUSIC Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57093 / EC 82032) | — | 1 | |
| 22 | GIANT Original Sound Track / Dimitri Tiomkin (Capitol W 773 / EAP 773) | — | 1 | |
| 23 | THE PLATTERS—VOLUME TWO Platters (Mercury MG 20216) | — | 1 | |
| 24 | MERRY CHRISTMAS Jackie Gleason (Capitol W 758 / EAP 1,2,3-758) | 19 | 2 | |
| 25 | SINGS THE COLE PORTER SONG BOOK Ella Fitzgerald (Verve MG V-4001-2) | 23 | 26 | |
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