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	Artist	Points	Songs
1.	The Glenn Miller Orchestra	7958	1940 • A Handful of Stars • 140 pts 1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 300 pts 1940 • Alice Blue Gown • 91 pts 1940 • Beat Me, Daddy (Eight to the Bar) • 107 pts 1940 • Blueberry Hill • 349 pts 1940 • Boog It • 180 pts 1940 • Careless • 350 pts 1940 • Crosstown • 152 pts 1940 • Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) • 94 pts 1940 • Devil May Care • 180 pts 1940 • Falling Leaves • 152 pts 1940 • Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) • 348 pts 1940 • Hear My Song, Violetta • 152 pts 1940 • I'll Never Smile Again • 100 pts 1940 • I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight • 180 pts 1940 • Imagination • 349 pts 1940 • In an Old Dutch Garden (By an Old Dutch Mill) • 164 pts 1940 • Indian Summer • 164 pts 1940 • It's a Blue World • 110 pts 1940 • Ooh! What You Said • 116 pts 1940 • Our Love Affair • 164 pts 1940 • Pennsylvania 6-5000 • 217 pts 1940 • Say It • 301 pts 1940 • Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) • 107 pts 1940 • Shake Down the Stars • 239 pts 1940 • Sierra Sue • 94 pts 1940 • Slow Freight • 152 pts 1940 • Starlit Hour • 140 pts 1940 • The Call of the Canyon • 140 pts 1940 • The Gaucho Serenade • 165 pts 1940 • The Nearness of You • 217 pts 1940 • The Sky Fell Down • 100 pts 1940 • The Woodpecker Song • 352 pts 1940 • This Changing World • 164 pts 1940 • Tuxedo Junction • 353 pts 1940 • Vagabond Dreams • 100 pts 1940 • When You Wish upon a Star • 351 pts 1940 • When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano • 301 pts 1940 • Yesterthoughts • 109 pts 1940 • You've Got Me This Way • 122 pts 10/1940 • Star Dust • 81 pts
2.	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra	2541	01/1940 • All the Things You Are • 254 pts 02/1940 • Indian Summer • 301 pts 07/1940 • I'll Never Smile Again • 350 pts 07/1940 • Imagination • 164 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 107 pts 08/1940 • Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) • 94 pts 08/1940 • Love Lies • 94 pts 08/1940 • The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) • 107 pts 09/1940 • The Call of the Canyon • 91 pts 09/1940 • Trade Winds • 139 pts 10/1940 • I Could Make You Care • 91 pts 10/1940 • Only Forever • 179 pts 11/1940 • Our Love Affair • 217 pts 11/1940 • Two Dreams Met • 100 pts 11/1940 • We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) • 254 pts
3.	Bing Crosby	1638	04/1940 • The Singing Hills • 301 pts 06/1940 • April Played the Fiddle • 139 pts 07/1940 • Sierra Sue • 349 pts 09/1940 • That's for Me • 110 pts 09/1940 • Trade Winds • 301 pts 09/1940 • Only Forever • 350 pts 12/1940 • Silent Night • 88 pts
4.	Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra	1189	1940 • Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells • 164 pts 1940 • If I Could be the Dummy on Your Knee • 82 pts 1940 • My Resistance is Low • 110 pts 1940 • Where Do I Go from You? • 116 pts 1940 • Would'ja Mind? • 107 pts 02/1940 • At the Balalaika • 255 pts 02/1940 • Pinch Me • 139 pts 02/1940 • You'd Be Surprised • 217 pts
5.	Kay Kyser and His Orchestra	1165	01/1940 • Chatterbox • 198 pts 05/1940 • Playmates • 301 pts 05/1940 • With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair • 239 pts 07/1940 • Friendship • 122 pts 09/1940 • Blueberry Hill • 107 pts 11/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 198 pts
6.	The Ink Spots	1119	08/1940 • When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano • 239 pts 09/1940 • Maybe • 302 pts 09/1940 • Stop Pretending (So Hep You See) • 91 pts 10/1940 • Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) • 139 pts 10/1940 • We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) • 255 pts 10/1940 • My Greatest Mistake • 94 pts
7.	Will Bradley and His Orchestra	1048	09/1940 • Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) Parts I & II • 301 pts 11/1940 • Celery Stalks at Midnight • 91 pts 12/1940 • Scrub Me, Mama, with a Boogie Beat • 301 pts 12/1940 • Down the Road a Piece • 139 pts 12/1940 • There I Go • 217 pts
8.	Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra	1019	07/1940 • Where Was I? • 349 pts 07/1940 • The Breeze and I • 106 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 100 pts 09/1940 • Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga • 116 pts 10/1940 • Pompton Turnpike • 254 pts 12/1940 • Redskin Rhumba • 94 pts
9.	Bob Crosby and His Orchestra	918	04/1940 • I've Got My Eyes on You • 151 pts 04/1940 • Leanin' on the Ole Top Rail • 180 pts 04/1940 • With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair • 179 pts 11/1940 • You Forgot About Me • 107 pts 12/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 300 pts
10.	Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra	893	11/1940 • Only Forever • 91 pts 11/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 116 pts 11/1940 • Two Dreams Met • 88 pts 12/1940 • I Give You My Word • 301 pts 12/1940 • So You're the One • 198 pts 12/1940 • Dream Valley • 100 pts
11.	Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra	878	01/1940 • Bluebirds in the Moonlight • 151 pts 01/1940 • Careless • 198 pts 03/1940 • In an Old Dutch Garden (By an Old Dutch Mill) • 164 pts 05/1940 • Cecelia • 164 pts 08/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 91 pts 08/1940 • A Million Dreams Ago • 110 pts
12.	The Andrews Sisters	670	03/1940 • Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) • 239 pts 04/1940 • The Woodpecker Song • 179 pts 10/1940 • Beat Me Daddy, Eight to a Bar • 88 pts 12/1940 • Ferryboat Serenade (La Piccinina) • 164 pts
13.	Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra	669	07/1940 • The Breeze and I • 349 pts 08/1940 • Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga • 238 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 81 pts
14.	Artie Shaw and His Orchestra	662	1940 • All the Things You Are • 164 pts 08/1940 • Frenesi • 350 pts 09/1940 • Adios, Mariquita Linda • 81 pts
15.	Dick Todd	495	03/1940 • The Gaucho Serenade • 239 pts 08/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 94 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 81 pts 12/1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 81 pts
16.	Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye	471	05/1940 • Let There Be Love • 180 pts 07/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 88 pts 08/1940 • Where Was I? • 116 pts 12/1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 88 pts
17.	Kate Smith	463	01/1940 • The Last Time I Saw Paris • 165 pts 08/1940 • I'm Stepping Out with a Memory To-Night • 81 pts 08/1940 • God Bless America • 217 pts
18.	Abe Lyman and His Californians	442	1940 • At the Balalaika • 116 pts 1940 • He's My Uncle • 129 pts 1940 • How Can I Ever Be Alone? • 109 pts 1940 • Love Song of Renaldo • 88 pts
19.	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	416	02/1940 • Darn That Dream • 164 pts 07/1940 • I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do) • 164 pts 08/1940 • The Hour of Parting • 88 pts
20.	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	390	03/1940 • Confucius Say • 152 pts 04/1940 • When You Wish upon a Star • 238 pts
21.	Jan Savitt and His Orchestra	380	1940 • Tuxedo Junction • 107 pts 1940 • Where Was I? • 110 pts 07/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 164 pts
22.	Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions in Music	349	06/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 349 pts
23.	Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra	339	08/1940 • Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) • 100 pts 09/1940 • Dolimite • 139 pts 11/1940 • Five O'Clock Whistle • 100 pts
24.	Connee Boswell	320	03/1940 • On the Isle of May • 254 pts
25.	Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra	301	1940 • Alice Blue Gown • 100 pts 1940 • Leanin' on the Ole Top Rail • 100 pts 08/1940 • I'm Nobody's Baby • 100 pts
26.	Frankie Masters and His Orchestra	287	05/1940 • Alice Blue Gown • 180 pts 11/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 107 pts
27.	Leo Reisman and His Orchestra	267	11/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 179 pts 12/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 88 pts
28.	Judy Garland	254	08/1940 • I'm Nobody's Baby • 254 pts
29.	Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm	241	1940 • Mene Mene Tekel • 88 pts 11/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 91 pts
30.	Tommy Tucker Time	240	01/1940 • The Man That Comes Around • 152 pts 12/1940 • There I Go • 88 pts
31.	Cliff Edwards	240	1940 • Give a Little Whistle • 100 pts • from Pinocchio: Recorded from the Original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production Pinocchio 1940 • When You Wish upon a Star • 139 pts • from Pinocchio: Recorded from the Original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production Pinocchio
32.	Tony Martin	239	04/1940 • It's a Blue World • 139 pts 08/1940 • Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) • 100 pts
33.	Vaughn Monroe	217	12/1940 • There I Go • 217 pts
34.	Art Kassel and His Kassels-in-the-Air	213	1940 • It's All Over Now (I Won't Worry) • 78 pts
35.	Bob Chester and His Orchestra	198	10/1940 • Practice Makes Perfect • 198 pts
36.	Fats Waller	198	05/1940 • Little Curly Hair in a High Chair • 198 pts
37.	Dick Robertson & His Orchestra	198	1940 • Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me) • 122 pts
38.	Ray Noble and His Orchestra	169	12/1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 107 pts
39.	Wayne King and His Orchestra	169	08/1940 • Where Was I? • 88 pts 11/1940 • You Are My Sunshine • 81 pts
40.	Bobby Byrne and His Orchestra	169	03/1940 • You Walk By • 81 pts 10/1940 • Maybe • 88 pts
41.	Earl Hines and His Orchestra	166	08/1940 • Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues • 110 pts
42.	Will Glahé	157	07/1940 • Woodpecker • 81 pts
43.	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	151	06/1940 • No Name Jive (Parts 1 & 2) • 151 pts • from Casa Loma in Hi-Fi!
44.	Blue Barron and His Orchestra	139	03/1940 • Darn That Dream • 139 pts
45.	Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell	123	1940 • Between 18th & 19th on Chestnut Street • 123 pts
46.	Count Basie	119
47.	Hal Kemp and His Orchestra	110	01/1940 • The Little Red Fox • 110 pts
48.	Raymond Scott and His Orchestra	107	09/1940 • Huckleberry Duck • 107 pts
49.	Al Kavelin and His Cascading Chords	107	10/1940 • Practice Makes Perfect • 107 pts
50.	Bea Wain	107	08/1940 • I'm Nobody's Baby • 107 pts
51.	Ted Weems and His Orchestra	106	1940 • Goody Goodbye • 106 pts
52.	Larry Clinton and His Orchestra	100	1940 • Johnson Rag • 100 pts
53.	Gene Krupa and His Orchestra	100	12/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 100 pts
54.	Russ Morgan	94	09/1940 • Blueberry Hill • 94 pts
55.	Dinah Shore	94	10/1940 • Maybe • 94 pts
56.	Terry Shand and His Orchestra	94	08/1940 • I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do) • 94 pts
57.	Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra	91	08/1940 • The Breeze and I (La Brisa y Yo) • 91 pts
58.	Kenny Baker	91	12/1940 • There I Go • 91 pts
59.	Gray Gordon	91	12/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 91 pts
60.	Freddy Martin and His Orchestra	91	1940 • One Cigarette for Two • 91 pts
61.	Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer	91	1940 • Mister Meadowlark • 91 pts
62.	Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy	88	11/1940 • Now I Lay Me Down to Dream • 88 pts
63.	Louise Massey and the Westerners	82	1940 • Rock and Rye Polka • 82 pts
64.	Gene Autry	82	1940 • Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye • 82 pts
65.	The Cats and the Fiddle	81	09/1940 • I Miss You So • 81 pts
66.	Jack Leonard	81	08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 81 pts
67.	Cab Calloway	72
68.	Henry King and His Orchestra	69
69.	Joe Sullivan	69
70.	Henry Busse & His Orchestra	63
71.	Frank Novak & His Orchestra	63
72.	Richard Himber & His Orchestra	59
73.	The Mills Brothers	50
74.	Jerry Colonna	50

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