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Twelfth Street Rag" by Pee Wee Hunt was the number one song of 1948. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1948 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.
In 1948, the following four charts were produced: Best Sellers in Stores – ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country. Most Played by Jockeys – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations.
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.
Billboard named Olivia Rodrigo the top Hot 100 artist of 2021, [2] the youngest female artist to achieve this honor, and the first female artist since Katy Perry in 2014. [1] Rodrigo placed four songs on the list, all in the top 40; the highest ranked of them, "Good 4 U", placed at number five.
The chart nowadays known as the Billboard 200 was titled Best-Selling Popular Record Albums in 1948 and was based on a "weekly survey among 4,970 dealers In all sections of the country. [1] During the year, eleven albums by fifteen artists topped the chart.
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Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart positions 1: Dinah Shore and Her Happy Boys "Buttons and Bows" [3] Columbia 38284: November 30, 1947 (): August 16, 1948 (): US Billboard 1948 #1, US #1 for 10 weeks, 23 total weeks, 577 points, CashBox #1, Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, sold 2.5 million