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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1949 according to Billboard magazine. Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 , Billboard published multiple singles charts each week.
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.
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.
The artist with the most weeks at number one on the juke box chart was Eddy Arnold, who spent a total of twenty weeks in the top spot with five different songs. On the retail chart, singing cowboy actor Jimmy Wakely had the highest number of total weeks at number one, comprising ten weeks in the top spot with two solo singles and a further ...
One of Rihanna's first hits, "S.O.S." spent three weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 in 2006. But the catchy tune was originally written for singer-actress Christina Milian, who rejected the ...
In 1949, Billboard magazine published two charts ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in African-American-oriented musical genres. The Most Played Juke Box Race Records chart had been published since 1945; placings were based on a weekly survey among jukebox operators.
I. I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore; I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living; I Love You Because (song) I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs) I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas
List of top-ten songs in 1948 and 1949 (Mexico) U. List of Billboard number-one albums of 1949; List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1949