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The Best-Selling record of 1955 according to the year-end poll in Cashbox Magazine in the USA is Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley And The Comets.
Music trade publication Billboard magazine reports that David Sarnoff, chairman of RCA has stated that "Total sales of products and services by the Radio Corporation Of America in 1955 will exceed $1,000m." This places RCA, with 78,000 employees, in the Top 25 companies in the USA.
Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra play at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets play at the Michigan State Fair Coliseum, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Twenty Tiny Fingers reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of two versions of the song, one by The Stargazers and one by Alma Cogan.