| The CASH BOX Best Selling Pop Albums | ||||
| Week ending DECEMBER 1, 1956 | ||||
| TW | TITLE | Artist (Label LP / EP) | LW | WKS | |
| 1 | ELVIS Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1382 / EPB 1382) | 1 | 5 | |
| 2 | CALYPSO Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1248 / EPB-1248) | 2 | 25 | |
| 3 | MY FAIR LADY Original Broadway Cast (Columbia Masterworks OL 5090) | 3 | 33 | |
| 4 | HIGH SOCIETY Original Sound Track (Capitol W 750 / EDM-750) | 6 | 19 | |
| 5 | THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY Original Sound Track / Carmen Cavallaro (Decca DL 8289 / ED 844) | 5 | 29 | |
| 6 | THE KING AND I Original Sound Track (Capitol W 740 / EDM-740) | 4 | 20 | |
| 7 | SONGS FOR SWINGIN’ LOVERS! Frank Sinatra (Capitol W 653 / EAP 653) | 9 | 37 | |
| 8 | OKLAHOMA! Sound Track (Capitol SAO 595 / FDM 595) | 8 | 66 | |
| 9 | SAY IT WITH MUSIC Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57041 / EC 57041) | 10 | 20 | |
| 10 | ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1254 / EPB 1254) | 7 | 37 | |
| 11 | ELLA AND LOUIS Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (Verve MG V-4003) | 11 | 6 | |
| 12 | MANHATTAN TOWER Gordon Jenkins & Orchestra (Capitol T 766 / EDM-766) | 12 | 4 | |
| 13 | BELAFONTE Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1150 / EPB 1150 / EPA-693,4,5) | 13 | 42 | |
| 14 | FRESHMEN FAVORITES Four Freshmen (Capitol T 743 / EAP 1,2,3-743) | 15 | 14 | |
| 15 | THE PLATTERS Platters (Mercury MG-20146) | 14 | 24 | |
| 16 | HOWDY! Pat Boone (Dot DLP-3030) | 16 | 10 | |
| 17 | THE ELGART TOUCH Les Elgart & Orchestra (Columbia CL 875 / B-8751,2,3) | 17 | 5 | |
| 18 | CAROUSEL Sound Track (Capitol W 694 / EDM-694) | 18 | 43 | |
| 19 | SINGS THE COLE PORTER SONG BOOK Ella Fitzgerald (Verve MG V-4001-2) | 19 | 24 | |
| 20 | THE MISTY MISS CHRISTY June Christy (Capitol T 725 / EAP 1,2,3-725) | 20 | 14 | |
| 21 | JUDY Judy Garland (Capitol T 734 / EAP 1,2,3-734) | 23 | 2 | |
| 22 | MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Lawrence Welk & Sparkling Strings (Coral CRL 57068 / EC 82029) | 22 | 6 | |
| 23 | SKI TRAILS Jo Stafford with Paul Weston & Music From Hollywood (Columbia CL 910 / B-9101,2,3) | — | 1 | |
| 24 | THIS IS SINATRA Frank Sinatra (Capitol T 768) | — | 1 | |
| 25 | PLAYS THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF THE MASTERS Roger Williams (Kapp KL-1040) | 24 | 9 | |
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