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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1944 according to The Billboard. Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100, The Billboard published multiple singles charts each week. In 1944, the following two all-genre national singles charts were published:
US BB 1944 #67, US #9 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #2, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 10 weeks, 24 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1944 #3, MPJBFR #1 for 5 weeks, 16 total weeks 13 Bing Crosby
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 ...
November 1944 () US Billboard 1944 #2, US Pop #1 for 8 weeks, 21 total weeks, US Most-Played Race Records 1945 #49, Race Records #9 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, 183 points, 1,000,000 sales [4] 21: Johnny Mercer And The Pied Pipers "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" [24] Capitol 195: December 13, 1944 () July 1945 ()
The term "country music" would not come into standard usage until the late 1940s and "folk music" was one of a number of terms used for the genre in earlier years; [1] the subtitle on the first chart indicated that it covered "Hillbillies, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, etc". [2]
US Billboard 1944 #93, US Pop #12, US Hillbilly 1944 #6, Hillbilly #1 for 6 weeks, 23 total weeks 7: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys "You're From Texas" [3] Okeh 6722: July 15, 1942 () August 1944 () US Billboard 1944 #105, US Pop #14, US Hillbilly 1944 #7, Hillbilly #2 for 2 weeks, 28 total weeks 8: Tex Ritter and His Texans
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The chart is considered to be the start of the lineage of the magazine's multimetric R&B chart, [2] which since 2005 has been published under the title Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs. [3] Most of 1944's number ones were in the jazz and swing genres, which were among the most popular styles of music in the early 1940s. [4]