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Most Played Juke Box Records (introduced January 8) – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States, as reported by machine operators. Shown are the songs that topped the National Best Selling Retail Records and Most Played Juke Box Records charts in 1944.
[9] [10] Louis Jordan was the only other artist to top the chart with more than one song during the year. Red Foley had the longest unbroken run at number one, spending thirteen consecutive weeks in the top spot in the fall with the patriotic wartime song "Smoke on the Water". Al Dexter's "So Long Pal" spent the same number of weeks at number ...
The January 6, 1945 issue contained year-end top ten charts for "Best Selling Retail Records", "Most Played Juke Box Records" and "Top 10 Disks for 1944", the latter combining the scores of the former two charts. The chart below was compiled using Billboard's formula, but includes each record's full chart period, with weeks from 1943 and 1945 ...
I Love You (Cole Porter song) I Promise You (Bing Crosby song) I Should Care; I Will Be Home Again; I Wonder (1944 song) I'll Walk Alone; I'm Beginning to See the Light; I'm Headin' for California; I'm Lost; I'm Making Believe; I'm Wastin' My Tears on You; I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts; Inolvidable (song) Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
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 ...
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It finally reached the top ten of the Best Selling and "Most Played Juke Box Records" charts in August 1944. Despite charting with Bing Crosby's "Swinging On A Star", "I'll Walk Alone" remained in the top ten of the Best Selling Records chart for twenty consecutive weeks, with four of those as the number one song in the nation. It also reached ...
However, from January to August 26, 1944, "Race" records were also included. The September 2, 1944 chart forward is the predecessor to today's Hot Country Songs chart. 1944 - Elton Britt received the first gold record for a hillbilly/country music song, 1942's "There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere." [2]