Billboard year-end top singles of 1947

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This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1947 according to retail sales.[1]

No. Title Artist(s)
1 "Near You" Francis Craig
2 "Peg o' My Heart" The Harmonicats
3 "Heartaches" Ted Weems
4
(Tie)
"Linda" Ray Noble Orchestra and Buddy Clark
"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" Tex Williams
5 "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" Vaughn Monroe
6 "Peg o' My Heart" The Three Suns
7 "The Anniversary Song" Al Jolson
8 "Near You" Larry Green Orchestra
9 "That's My Desire" Sammy Kaye
10 "Ballerina" Vaughn Monroe
11
(Tie)
"Managua, Nicaragua" Freddy Martin
"Mam'selle" Art Lund
12
(Tie)
"Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)" Perry Como
"Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)" Red Ingle and The Natural Seven and Jo Stafford
13 "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" Ted Weems and Perry Como
14 "Near You" The Andrews Sisters
15 "The Old Lamp-Lighter" Sammy Kaye
16 "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" Perry Como
17 "How Soon" Jack Owens
18 "Too Fat Polka" Arthur Godfrey
19
(Tie)
"I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder" Eddy Howard
"My Adobe Hacienda" Eddy Howard
20 "Huggin' and Chalkin'" Hoagy Carmichael
21
(Tie)
"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" King Cole Trio
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" Hoagy Carmichael
22
(Tie)
"Mam'selle" Dick Haymes
"You Do" Vaughn Monroe
23 "The Anniversary Song" Guy Lombardo
24
(Tie)
"The Anniversary Song" Dinah Shore
"White Christmas" Bing Crosby
25 "Across the Alley from the Alamo" The Mills Brothers
26 "Civilization" The Andrews Sisters and Danny Kaye
27 "The Old Lamp-Lighter" Kay Kyser
28
(Tie)
"Open the Door, Richard" Count Basie
"Peg o' My Heart" Art Lund
"You Do" Margaret Whiting
29 "Feudin' and Fightin'" Dorothy Shay
30 "Linda" Charlie Spivak
31
(Tie)
"The Anniversary Song" Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra
"Managua, Nicaragua" Guy Lombardo
32
(Tie)
"How Soon" Vaughn Monroe
"The Whiffenpoof Song" Bing Crosby
33 "Open the Door, Richard" Dusty Fletcher
34 "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" Eddy Howard
35
(Tie)
"Golden Earrings" Peggy Lee
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" Kay Kyser

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Year's Top Popular Retail Record Sellers" (PDF). The Billboard. 60 (1): 19. January 3, 1948.