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Prior to the introduction of the Hot 100, The Billboard compiled multiple weekly record charts ranking the performance of singles in the United States. In 1946, the magazine published the following four all-genre national singles charts:
Perry Como had four songs on the year-end top singles list, including "Prisoner of Love", the number one song of 1946. Bing Crosby had four songs on the year-end top singles list. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1946 according to retail sales. [1]
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
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.
2.1 Number one hits. 3 Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings 1946. 4 Top new album releases. 5 Births. 6 Deaths. ... US Hillbilly 1946 #4, USHB #1 for 2 weeks, 20 total ...
Three songs by Bob Wills reached number one in 1946, including "New Spanish Two Step", which spent 15 consecutive weeks in the top spot.. From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a chart that ranked the top-performing country music songs in the United States, based on the number of times a song had been played in jukeboxes; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart.
Billboard year-end top singles of 1946; L. List of Billboard number-one singles of 1946; List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1946;
The track had spent 17 weeks at number one in 1945 and thus achieved a final total of 18 weeks at number one, a new record for an R&B chart-topper. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five equalled the record in the final issue of 1946 when their song "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" spent an 18th week in the top spot.