Top Artists of 1930 - Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

US & UK hit charts

1929 <-

1930

-> 1931

	Artist	Points	Songs
1.	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	3489	1930 • A Cottage for Sale • 262 pts 1930 • Baby's Birthday Party • 198 pts 1930 • Confessin' (That I Love You) • 330 pts 1930 • Crying for the Carolines • 218 pts 1930 • Go Home and Tell Your Mother • 180 pts 1930 • Have a Little Faith in Me • 279 pts 1930 • I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) • 238 pts 1930 • Lazy Lou'siana Moon • 153 pts 1930 • Rollin' Down the River • 167 pts 1930 • Singing a Song to the Stars • 262 pts 1930 • Swingin' in a Hammock • 279 pts 1930 • Under a Texas Moon • 239 pts 1930 • With You • 103 pts 1930 • You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?) • 384 pts 1930 • You're the Sweetest Girl This Side of Heaven • 197 pts
2.	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	2507	1930 • A Bundle of Old Love Letters • 153 pts 1930 • After You've Gone • 121 pts 1930 • Body and Soul • 386 pts 1930 • I Like to Do Things for You • 97 pts 1930 • It Happened in Monterey • 330 pts 1930 • Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight • 110 pts 1930 • Nobody's Sweetheart • 330 pts 1930 • Old New England Moon • 330 pts 1930 • The New Tiger Rag • 153 pts 1930 • Without a Song • 218 pts 1930 • You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me • 279 pts
3.	Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees	2325	1930 • A Little Kiss Each Morning (A Little Kiss Each Night) • 279 pts 1930 • Betty Co-Ed • 262 pts 1930 • Confessin' (That I Love You) • 262 pts 1930 • I Still Remember • 110 pts 1930 • If I Had a Girl Like You • 279 pts 1930 • Just a Little Closer • 180 pts 1930 • St. Louis Blues • 117 pts 1930 • Stein Song (University of Maine) • 389 pts 1930 • Sweetheart of My Student Days • 166 pts 12/1930 • You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?) • 279 pts
4.	Ted Lewis & His Band	2313	1930 • Aunt Hagar's Blues • 218 pts 1930 • Dinah • 180 pts 1930 • Homemade Sunshine • 121 pts 1930 • On the Sunny Side of the Street • 330 pts 1930 • San • 100 pts 1930 • The Lonesome Road • 279 pts 1930 • Three O'Clock in the Morning • 330 pts 1930 • Wabash Blues • 110 pts 1930 • Yellow Dog Blues • 262 pts 1930 • You've Got That Thing • 262 pts 12/1930 • Somebody Stole My Gal • 121 pts
5.	Ruth Etting	1392	1930 • Body and Soul • 153 pts 1930 • Cryin' for the Carolines • 117 pts 1930 • Dancing with Tears in My Eyes • 153 pts 1930 • Don't Tell Her What Happened to Me • 218 pts 1930 • Exactly Like You • 141 pts 1930 • I'll Be Blue Just Thinking of You • 121 pts 1930 • It Happened in Monterey • 97 pts 1930 • Just a Little Closer • 153 pts 1930 • Ten Cents a Dance • 239 pts
6.	Leo Reisman and His Orchestra	1353	1930 • Around the Corner • 103 pts 1930 • Bye Bye Blues • 103 pts 1930 • Happy Days Are Here Again • 279 pts 1930 • I'll See You Again • 153 pts 1930 • Puttin' on the Ritz • 90 pts 1930 • What is This Thing Called Love? • 239 pts 1930 • You Do Something to Me • 128 pts 1930 • You've Got That Thing • 141 pts 12/1930 • Body and Soul • 117 pts
7.	Harry Richman	1103	1930 • Exactly Like You • 134 pts 1930 • On the Sunny Side of the Street • 128 pts 1930 • Puttin' on the Ritz • 382 pts 1930 • Singing a Vagabond Song • 197 pts 1930 • There's Danger in Your Eyes Cherie • 262 pts
8.	George Olsen and His Orchestra	1093	1930 • Beyond the Blue Horizon • 238 pts 1930 • I'm in the Market for You • 167 pts 1930 • It Happened in Monterey • 153 pts 1930 • South Sea Rose • 121 pts 1930 • The Kiss Waltz • 218 pts 1930 • The Moon Is Low • 197 pts
9.	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	1071	1930 • Cryin' for the Carolines • 279 pts 1930 • Little White Lies • 385 pts 1930 • So Beats My Heart for You • 279 pts 1930 • There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie • 128 pts
10.	Red Nichols & His Five Pennies	1059	1930 • China Boy • 100 pts 1930 • I Want to Be Happy • 97 pts 1930 • It Had to Be You • 97 pts 1930 • Strike Up the Band • 197 pts 11/1930 • Embraceable You • 330 pts 12/1930 • I Got Rhythm • 238 pts
11.	Isham Jones & His Orchestra	994	1930 • Sweet Jennie Lee! • 153 pts 1930 • Trees • 128 pts 1930 • What's the Use? • 330 pts 09/1930 • Star Dust • 383 pts
12.	Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra	964	1930 • It Must Be True • 128 pts 1930 • Leven Thirty Saturday Night • 141 pts 1930 • Little White Lies • 262 pts 1930 • Puttin' on the Ritz • 103 pts 1930 • So Beats My Heart for You • 330 pts
13.	Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra	883	1930 • Chant of the Jungle • 279 pts 1930 • Dancing with Tears in My Eyes • 386 pts 1930 • Get Happy • 218 pts
14.	Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys	825	1930 • Little White Lies • 279 pts 1930 • Stein Song • 180 pts 1930 • Sweetheart of My Student Days • 121 pts 1930 • The Little Things in Life • 141 pts 1930 • When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) • 103 pts
15.	Ben Bernie & His Orchestra	818	1930 • Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams • 117 pts 1930 • Crying for the Carolines • 128 pts 1930 • F'r Instance • 100 pts 1930 • I'm Yours • 110 pts 1930 • It's a Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around) • 110 pts 1930 • The Kiss Waltz • 100 pts 1930 • What is This Thing Called Love? • 153 pts
16.	Al Jolson	746	1930 • Let Me Sing and I'm Happy • 331 pts 1930 • To My Mammy • 197 pts 1930 • When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues • 218 pts
17.	Ted Weems and His Orchestra	744	1930 • I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) • 100 pts 1930 • My Baby Just Cares for Me • 262 pts 1930 • The Man from the South • 382 pts
18.	Arden-Ohman Orchestra	708	1930 • Can This Be Love? • 141 pts 1930 • Fine and Dandy • 153 pts 1930 • Should I? • 280 pts 1930 • Strike Up the Band • 134 pts
19.	Bert Lown and His Orchestra	638	1930 • Bye Bye Blues • 238 pts 1930 • Here Comes the Sun • 121 pts 1930 • I'm Yours • 279 pts
20.	High Hatters	626	1930 • I'm Following You • 128 pts 1930 • My Future Just Passed • 218 pts 1930 • Sing, You Sinners • 153 pts 1930 • You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me • 128 pts
21.	The Colonial Club Orchestra	622	1930 • Hittin' the Bottle • 180 pts 1930 • I Am Only Human, After All • 180 pts 1930 • Stein Song (University of Maine) • 262 pts
22.	Wayne King and His Orchestra	621	1930 • (I Am Only the Words) You Are the Melody • 121 pts 1930 • On a Blue and Moonless Night • 103 pts 1930 • Song of the Islands • 134 pts 12/1930 • The Waltz You Saved for Me • 263 pts
23.	Libby Holman	593	1930 • Body and Soul • 279 pts 1930 • Why Was I Born? • 97 pts 12/1930 • Something to Remember You By • 218 pts
24.	Tom Gerun & His Orchestra	570	1930 • Around the Corner • 134 pts 1930 • Cheerful Little Earful • 197 pts 1930 • If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) • 238 pts
25.	The Regent Club Orchestra	568	1930 • Dancing with Tears in My Eyes • 330 pts 1930 • It Happened in Monterey • 238 pts
26.	Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra	537	1930 • Down the River of Golden Dreams • 153 pts 1930 • When It's Springtime in the Rockies • 384 pts
27.	Jacques Renard and His Orchestra	497	1930 • Sing Something Simple • 218 pts 1930 • Three Little Words • 279 pts
28.	Ray Miller & His Orchestra	476	1930 • Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do • 121 pts 1930 • Kiss Me with Your Eyes • 117 pts 1930 • When It's Springtime in the Rockies • 238 pts
29.	Louis Armstrong	465	1930 • I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) • 97 pts 1930 • If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight • 128 pts 1930 • Memories of You • 100 pts 1930 • St. Louis Blues • 141 pts
30.	The Ipana Troubadors	390	1930 • Blue Is the Night • 121 pts 1930 • Tea for Two • 117 pts 1930 • Three Little Words • 153 pts
31.	Lawrence Tibbett	388	1930 • The Rogue Song • 100 pts 1930 • The White Dove • 153 pts 1930 • When I'm Looking at You • 135 pts
32.	Don Azpiazu & His Havana Casino Orchestra	388	11/1930 • The Peanut Vendor • 388 pts
33.	Bob Haring & His Orchestra	383	1930 • Betty Co-Ed • 262 pts 1930 • I Love You So Much • 121 pts
34.	The Beverly Hill Billies	316	1930 • My Pretty Quadroon • 117 pts 1930 • When the Bloom is on the Sage • 198 pts
35.	Nick Lucas	314	1930 • Telling it to the Daisies • 117 pts 12/1930 • You're Driving Me Crazy • 197 pts
36.	Helen Morgan	290	1930 • Body and Soul • 110 pts 1930 • Why Was I Born? • 180 pts
37.	Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra	280	1930 • Body and Soul • 100 pts 1930 • I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) • 180 pts
38.	Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra	279	1930 • Go Home and Tell Your Mother • 279 pts
39.	Maurice Chevalier	252	1930 • My Love Parade • 117 pts 1930 • You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me • 134 pts
40.	Hal Kemp and His Orchestra	224	1930 • H'lo, Baby • 103 pts 1930 • If I Had a Girl Like You • 121 pts
41.	Emil Coleman & His Orchestra	218	12/1930 • Where Have You Been? • 218 pts
42.	Paul Tremaine & His Orchestra	200	1930 • Anchors Aweigh • 100 pts 1930 • Hand Me Down My Walking Cane • 100 pts
43.	Perry Askam	179	1930 • Stout-Hearted Men • 90 pts
44.	John Boles	167	1930 • For You • 167 pts
45.	Jeanette MacDonald	166	1930 • Beyond the Blue Horizon • 166 pts
46.	Roy Ingraham & His Orchestra	166	1930 • That Wonderful Something • 166 pts
47.	Paul Specht & His Orchestra	134	1930 • I'm Following You • 134 pts
48.	Annette Hanshaw	134	1930 • Body and Soul • 134 pts
49.	Ford & Glenn	121	1930 • When It's Springtime in the Rockies • 121 pts
50.	The Carter Family	121	1930 • Worried Man Blues • 121 pts