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This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1949 according to retail sales. [1]Vaughn Monroe's rendition of "Riders in the Sky" topped the year-end list, while his renditions of "Someday" and "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" also appeared at number 12 and number 21, respectively.
Honor Roll of Hits – a composite ten-position song chart which combined data from the three charts above along with three other component charts. [1] [2] It served as The Billboard ' s lead chart until the introduction of the Hot 100 in 1958 and would remain in print until 1963. [3]
We use the same data, with several modifications. Having no commercial deadlines, year-end data does not end December 31, chart-runs are ever truncated, and every hit song has a year to call home. With few exceptions, records included entered the charts between November 1948 and December 1949.
Arnold's song spent a total of twelve non-consecutive weeks at number one on the juke box chart, the highest cumulative total for any one song. On the retail chart, "Lovesick Blues" by Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys spent the most total weeks in the top spot, with sixteen non-consecutive weeks at number one. Wakely and Arnold were the ...
Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.
Billboard number-one singles charts preceding the Billboard Hot 100 were updated weekly by Billboard magazine and the leading indicator of popular music for the American music industry since 1940 and until the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in 1958.
Billboard Top R&B Records of 1949 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and juke box plays. [ 1 ] Retail
Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Ref. January 1: Merry Christmas: Bing Crosby: Decca [1]January 8 [2]January 15 [3]January 22: Vaughn Monroe Sings: Vaughn Monroe