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Perry Como had four songs on the year-end top singles list, including "Prisoner of Love", the number one song of 1946. Bing Crosby had four songs on the year-end top singles list. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1946 according to retail sales. [1]
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
Billboard year-end top singles of 1946; L. List of Billboard number-one singles of 1946; ... List of Most Played Juke Box Race Records number ones of 1946; U.
Before the use of Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems to compile the Hot 100 in late 1991, the most number of weeks a single spent at number one on the Hot 100 was 10. This occurred twice, with Debby Boone 's " You Light Up My Life " in 1977, and Olivia Newton-John 's " Physical " in 1981–82.
The track had spent 17 weeks at number one in 1945 and thus achieved a final total of 18 weeks at number one, a new record for an R&B chart-topper. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five equalled the record in the final issue of 1946 when their song " Choo Choo Ch'Boogie " spent an 18th week in the top spot.
Pages in category "1946 singles" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Divorce Me C.O.D.