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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 ...
Prior to its introduction, The Billboard had produced lists ranking music by various metrics such as performance in vaudeville venues, jukebox plays, sheet music sales, and regional airplay. [1] [2] The first National Best Selling Retail Records number-one single was "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.
Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks. In addition, a new form of popular music, crooning, emerged during the early 1930s. Technology played a large part in the development of this style, as electronic sound recording had emerged near the end of the 1920s and replaced the earlier acoustic recording.
The following lists the number one singles on the Australian Singles Chart during the 1940s. The source for this decade is the "Kent Music Report".These charts were calculated in the 1990s in retrospect, by David Kent, using archival data.
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.
Shown below are the top 10 songs and top 10 artists over the 63-year period of the Hot 100, through November 2021. Also shown are the artists placing the most songs on the overall "all-time" top 100 song list.
Pages in category "1940s songs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cloudy Sunday; F. Fight for ...
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: