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Most Played Juke Box Records (debuted January 1944) – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. Most Played by Jockeys (debuted February 1945) – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations. The list below includes the Best Selling Singles chart ...
US Billboard 1939 #38, US #2 for 1 week, 9 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 1987, National Recording Registry 2017 2: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra "(Hep-Hep) The Jumpin' Jive" [18] Vocalion 5005: July 17, 1939 () August 1939 () US Billboard 1939 #25, US #2 for 4 weeks, 12 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 2017 3: The Ink Spots
Records Most-Played on the Air (introduced January 27 as Disks with Most Radio Plugs) – ranked the most-played songs on American radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations. Most-Played Juke Box Records – ranked the most-played songs in jukeboxes across the United States, as reported by machine operators.
Home front America : popular culture of the World War II era. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1995. ISBN 0-8118-0927-7. OCLC 31207708. Jones, John Bush. The songs that fought the war : popular music and the home front, 1939–1945. Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58465-443-0. OCLC 69028073. Krummel, Donald William.
Bing Crosby was the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Ragtime, a genre that first became popular in the 1890s, was popular through about the 1940s. After its best-known exponent, Scott Joplin, died in 1917, the genre faded. As the 1920s unfolded, jazz rapidly took over as the dominant form of popular music in the United States.
I. I Didn't Know What Time It Was; I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) I Like to Recognize the Tune; I Swung the Election; I Thought About You
For each Year in Music (beginning 1940) and Year in Country Music (beginning 1939), a comprehensive Year End Top Records section can be found at mid-page (popular), and on the Country page. For the United States, charts are compiled from data published by Billboard magazine, using their own formulas with slight modifications.
1939 Cuckoo in the Clock: Walter Donaldson: 1939 Day In, Day Out: Rube Bloom: 1962 Days of Wine and Roses: Henry Mancini: 1944 Dream: Johnny Mercer The Pied Pipers (Billboard charts in 1945) Betty Johnson No. 9 Billboard charts 1958 1967 Drinking Again: Doris Tauber: 1946 Early Autumn: Ralph Burns and Woody Herman: Woody Herman, 1946 1940