Billboard year-end top singles of 1947
This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1947 according to retail sales.[1]
No. (Rank) | Title | Artist(s) |
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1 (1) | "Near You" | Francis Craig |
2 (2) | "Peg o' My Heart" | The Harmonicats |
3 (3) | "Heartaches" | Ted Weems |
4 (4) | "Linda" | Ray Noble Orchestra and Buddy Clark |
4 (4) | "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" | Tex Williams |
5 (6) | "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" | Vaughn Monroe |
6 (7) | "Peg o' My Heart" | The Three Suns |
7 (8) | "The Anniversary Song" | Al Jolson |
8 (9) | "Near You" | Larry Green Orchestra |
9 (10) | "That's My Desire" | Sammy Kaye |
10 (11) | "Ballerina" | Vaughn Monroe |
11 (12) | "Managua, Nicaragua" | Freddy Martin |
11 (12) | "Mam'selle" | Art Lund |
12 (14) | "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)" | Perry Como |
12 (14) | "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)" | Red Ingle and The Natural Seven and Jo Stafford |
13 (16) | "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" | Ted Weems and Perry Como |
14 (17) | "Near You" | The Andrews Sisters |
15 (18) | "The Old Lamp-Lighter" | Sammy Kaye |
16 (19) | "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" | Perry Como |
17 (20) | "How Soon" | Jack Owens and Eddie Ballantine |
18 (21) | "Too Fat Polka" | Arthur Godfrey |
19 (22) | "I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder" | Eddy Howard |
19 (22) | "My Adobe Hacienda" | Eddy Howard |
20 (24) | "Huggin' and Chalkin'" | Hoagy Carmichael |
21 (25) | "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" | King Cole Trio |
21 (26) | "Ole Buttermilk Sky" | Hoagy Carmichael |
22 (27) | "Mam'selle" | Dick Haymes |
22 (27) | "You Do" | Vaughn Monroe |
23 (29) | "The Anniversary Song" | Guy Lombardo |
24 (30) | "The Anniversary Song" | Dinah Shore |
24 (30) | "White Christmas" | Bing Crosby |
25 (32) | "Across the Alley from the Alamo" | The Mills Brothers |
26 (33) | "Civilization" | Danny Kaye and The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen |
27 (34) | "The Old Lamp-Lighter" | Kay Kyser |
28 (35) | "Open the Door, Richard!" | Count Basie |
28 (35) | "Peg o' My Heart" | Art Lund |
28 (35) | "You Do" | Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol |
29 (38) | "Feudin' and Fightin'" | Dorothy Shay |
30 (39) | "Linda" | Charlie Spivak |
31 (40) | "The Anniversary Song" | Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra |
31 (40) | "Managua, Nicaragua" | Guy Lombardo |
32 (42) | "How Soon" | Vaughn Monroe |
32 (42) | "The Whiffenpoof Song" | Bing Crosby with Fred Waring |
33 (44) | "Open the Door, Richard!" | Dusty Fletcher |
34 (45) | "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" | Eddy Howard |
35 (46) | "Golden Earrings" | Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour |
35 (46) | "Ole Buttermilk Sky" | Kay Kyser |
See also
- 1947 in music
- List of number-one singles of 1947 (U.S.)
References
- ^ "The Year's Top Popular Retail Record Sellers" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 60, no. 1. January 3, 1948. p. 19.
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