Billboard year-end top singles of 1948

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This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1948 according to retail sales.[1]

No. Title Artist(s)
1 "Twelfth Street Rag" Pee Wee Hunt
2 "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" Peggy Lee
3 "Now Is the Hour" Bing Crosby
4 "A Tree in the Meadow" Margaret Whiting
5 "My Happiness" Jon and Sondra Steele
6 "You Can't Be True, Dear" Ken Griffin and Jerry Wayne
7 "Little White Lies" Dick Haymes
8 "You Call Everybody Darlin'" Al Trace
9 "My Happiness" The Pied Pipers
10 "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Art Mooney
11 "It's Magic" Doris Day
12 "Maybe You'll Be There" Gordon Jenkins
13 "Ballerina" Vaughn Monroe
14 "Nature Boy" King Cole
15 "Woody Woodpecker" Kay Kyser
16 "Love Somebody" Doris Day and Buddy Clark
17 "Now Is the Hour" Gracie Fields
18 "Beg Your Pardon" Francis Craig
19 "You Can't Be True, Dear" Ken Griffin
20 "Toolie Oolie Doolie" The Andrews Sisters
21 "Buttons and Bows" Dinah Shore
22 "Golden Earrings" Peggy Lee
23 "Baby Face" Art Mooney
23 "Too Fat Polka" Arthur Godfrey
24 "Because" Perry Como
24 "My Happiness" Ella Fitzgerald
25 "Serenade of the Bells" Sammy Kaye
26 "Until" Tommy Dorsey
27 "William Tell Overture" Spike Jones
28 "Beg Your Pardon" Frankie Carle
29 "St. Louis Blues March" Tex Beneke
29 "Underneath the Arches" Primo Scala
30 "On a Slow Boat to China" Kay Starr
30 "Woody Woodpecker" The Sportsmen and Mel Blanc
31 "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" Ray Noble and Buddy Clark
32 "The Dicky-Bird Song" Freddy Martin
33 "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Russ Morgan and Milt Herth
34 "How Soon" Vaughn Monroe
35 "Serenade of the Bells" Jo Stafford

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References[]

  1. ^ "The Year's Top Popular Retail Record Sellers" (PDF). The Billboard. 61 (1): 12-13. January 1, 1949.
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