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The new chart was advertised as a trade service feature, based on the "10 best selling records of the past week" at a selection of national retailers from New York to Los Angeles. Shown is a list of songs that topped the National Best Selling Retail Records chart in 1941.
Billboard Hot 100 & Best Sellers in Stores number-one singles by decade Before August 1958 1940–1949 1950–1958 After August 1958 1958–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029 US Singles Chart Billboard magazine Billboard number-one singles chart (which preceded the Billboard Hot 100 chart), which was updated weekly by the Billboard magazine, was the ...
Before the Hot100 was implemented in 1958, Billboard magazine measured a record's performance with three charts, 'Best-Selling Popular Retail Records', 'Records Most-Played On the Air' or 'Records Most Played By Disk Jockeys' and 'Most-Played Juke Box Records'. As Billboard did starting in the 1940s, the three totals for each song are combined ...
Items in this category are sorted alphabetically by the chart's country of origin, then by genre or the name of the chart. Pages in category "1941 record charts" This category contains only the following page.
This category is for record charts in the decade 1940s ... 1941 record charts (1 P) 1942 record charts ... List of Billboard number-one singles of the 1940s
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.
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.
"So Rare", which went to the No. 2 position in 1957, and was on the record charts for 38 weeks. In 1935, he had two more number ones as part of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: "Lullaby of Broadway" and "Chasing Shadows". His biggest hit was "Amapola", which was number one for ten weeks in 1941 on the Billboard pop singles chart.