Top Artists of 1940 - Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

US & UK hit charts

1939 <-

1940

-> 1941

	Artist	Points	Songs
1.	The Glenn Miller Orchestra	8419	1940 • A Handful of Stars • 147 pts 1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 318 pts 1940 • Alice Blue Gown • 96 pts 1940 • Beat Me, Daddy (Eight to the Bar) • 113 pts 1940 • Blueberry Hill • 369 pts 1940 • Boog It • 191 pts 1940 • Careless • 371 pts 1940 • Crosstown • 161 pts 1940 • Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) • 100 pts 1940 • Devil May Care • 190 pts 1940 • Falling Leaves • 161 pts 1940 • Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) • 368 pts 1940 • Hear My Song, Violetta • 161 pts 1940 • I'll Never Smile Again • 106 pts 1940 • I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight • 190 pts 1940 • Imagination • 369 pts 1940 • In an Old Dutch Garden (By an Old Dutch Mill) • 174 pts 1940 • Indian Summer • 174 pts 1940 • It's a Blue World • 116 pts 1940 • Ooh! What You Said • 123 pts 1940 • Our Love Affair • 174 pts 1940 • Pennsylvania 6-5000 • 230 pts 1940 • Say It • 318 pts 1940 • Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) • 113 pts 1940 • Shake Down the Stars • 253 pts 1940 • Sierra Sue • 100 pts 1940 • Slow Freight • 161 pts 1940 • Starlit Hour • 148 pts 1940 • The Call of the Canyon • 148 pts 1940 • The Gaucho Serenade • 174 pts 1940 • The Nearness of You • 230 pts 1940 • The Sky Fell Down • 106 pts 1940 • The Woodpecker Song • 372 pts 1940 • This Changing World • 174 pts 1940 • Tuxedo Junction • 374 pts 1940 • Vagabond Dreams • 106 pts 1940 • When You Wish upon a Star • 371 pts 1940 • When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano • 318 pts 1940 • Yesterthoughts • 116 pts 1940 • You've Got Me This Way • 129 pts 10/1940 • Star Dust • 86 pts
2.	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra	2689	01/1940 • All the Things You Are • 269 pts 02/1940 • Indian Summer • 318 pts 07/1940 • I'll Never Smile Again • 370 pts 07/1940 • Imagination • 173 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 113 pts 08/1940 • Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) • 100 pts 08/1940 • Love Lies • 100 pts 08/1940 • The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) • 113 pts 09/1940 • The Call of the Canyon • 96 pts 09/1940 • Trade Winds • 147 pts 10/1940 • I Could Make You Care • 96 pts 10/1940 • Only Forever • 190 pts 11/1940 • Our Love Affair • 229 pts 11/1940 • Two Dreams Met • 106 pts 11/1940 • We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) • 269 pts
3.	Bing Crosby	1733	04/1940 • The Singing Hills • 319 pts 06/1940 • April Played the Fiddle • 147 pts 07/1940 • Sierra Sue • 369 pts 09/1940 • That's for Me • 116 pts 09/1940 • Trade Winds • 319 pts 09/1940 • Only Forever • 370 pts 12/1940 • Silent Night • 93 pts
4.	Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra	1258	1940 • Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells • 173 pts 1940 • If I Could be the Dummy on Your Knee • 86 pts 1940 • My Resistance is Low • 116 pts 1940 • Where Do I Go from You? • 123 pts 1940 • Would'ja Mind? • 113 pts 02/1940 • At the Balalaika • 269 pts 02/1940 • Pinch Me • 147 pts 02/1940 • You'd Be Surprised • 230 pts
5.	Kay Kyser and His Orchestra	1232	01/1940 • Chatterbox • 210 pts 05/1940 • Playmates • 319 pts 05/1940 • With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair • 252 pts 07/1940 • Friendship • 129 pts 09/1940 • Blueberry Hill • 113 pts 11/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 210 pts
6.	The Ink Spots	1184	08/1940 • When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano • 253 pts 09/1940 • Maybe • 319 pts 09/1940 • Stop Pretending (So Hep You See) • 96 pts 10/1940 • Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) • 147 pts 10/1940 • We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) • 269 pts 10/1940 • My Greatest Mistake • 100 pts
7.	Will Bradley and His Orchestra	1109	09/1940 • Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) Parts I & II • 319 pts 11/1940 • Celery Stalks at Midnight • 96 pts 12/1940 • Scrub Me, Mama, with a Boogie Beat • 318 pts 12/1940 • Down the Road a Piece • 147 pts 12/1940 • There I Go • 229 pts
8.	Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra	1079	07/1940 • Where Was I? • 369 pts 07/1940 • The Breeze and I • 113 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 106 pts 09/1940 • Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga • 123 pts 10/1940 • Pompton Turnpike • 269 pts 12/1940 • Redskin Rhumba • 100 pts
9.	Bob Crosby and His Orchestra	970	04/1940 • I've Got My Eyes on You • 160 pts 04/1940 • Leanin' on the Ole Top Rail • 190 pts 04/1940 • With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair • 190 pts 11/1940 • You Forgot About Me • 113 pts 12/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 318 pts
10.	Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra	946	11/1940 • Only Forever • 96 pts 11/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 123 pts 11/1940 • Two Dreams Met • 93 pts 12/1940 • I Give You My Word • 318 pts 12/1940 • So You're the One • 210 pts 12/1940 • Dream Valley • 106 pts
11.	Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra	929	01/1940 • Bluebirds in the Moonlight • 160 pts 01/1940 • Careless • 209 pts 03/1940 • In an Old Dutch Garden (By an Old Dutch Mill) • 173 pts 05/1940 • Cecelia • 173 pts 08/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 96 pts 08/1940 • A Million Dreams Ago • 117 pts
12.	The Andrews Sisters	708	03/1940 • Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) • 253 pts 04/1940 • The Woodpecker Song • 190 pts 10/1940 • Beat Me Daddy, Eight to a Bar • 93 pts 12/1940 • Ferryboat Serenade (La Piccinina) • 173 pts
13.	Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra	708	07/1940 • The Breeze and I • 369 pts 08/1940 • Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga • 252 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 86 pts
14.	Artie Shaw and His Orchestra	700	1940 • All the Things You Are • 174 pts 08/1940 • Frenesi • 371 pts 09/1940 • Adios, Mariquita Linda • 86 pts
15.	Dick Todd	524	03/1940 • The Gaucho Serenade • 252 pts 08/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 100 pts 08/1940 • All This and Heaven Too • 86 pts 12/1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 86 pts
16.	Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye	499	05/1940 • Let There Be Love • 190 pts 07/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 93 pts 08/1940 • Where Was I? • 123 pts 12/1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 93 pts
17.	Kate Smith	489	01/1940 • The Last Time I Saw Paris • 174 pts 08/1940 • I'm Stepping Out with a Memory To-Night • 86 pts 08/1940 • God Bless America • 229 pts
18.	Abe Lyman and His Californians	468	1940 • At the Balalaika • 123 pts 1940 • He's My Uncle • 136 pts 1940 • How Can I Ever Be Alone? • 116 pts 1940 • Love Song of Renaldo • 93 pts
19.	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	440	02/1940 • Darn That Dream • 173 pts 07/1940 • I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do) • 173 pts 08/1940 • The Hour of Parting • 93 pts
20.	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	412	03/1940 • Confucius Say • 160 pts 04/1940 • When You Wish upon a Star • 252 pts
21.	Jan Savitt and His Orchestra	402	1940 • Tuxedo Junction • 113 pts 1940 • Where Was I? • 116 pts 07/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 173 pts
22.	Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions in Music	369	06/1940 • Make-Believe Island • 369 pts
23.	Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra	359	08/1940 • Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) • 106 pts 09/1940 • Dolimite • 147 pts 11/1940 • Five O'Clock Whistle • 106 pts
24.	Connee Boswell	339	03/1940 • On the Isle of May • 269 pts
25.	Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra	319	1940 • Alice Blue Gown • 106 pts 1940 • Leanin' on the Ole Top Rail • 106 pts 08/1940 • I'm Nobody's Baby • 106 pts
26.	Frankie Masters and His Orchestra	303	05/1940 • Alice Blue Gown • 190 pts 11/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 113 pts
27.	Leo Reisman and His Orchestra	283	11/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 190 pts 12/1940 • Ferry-Boat Serenade • 93 pts
28.	Judy Garland	269	08/1940 • I'm Nobody's Baby • 269 pts
29.	Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm	256	1940 • Mene Mene Tekel • 93 pts 11/1940 • Down Argentina Way • 96 pts
30.	Tommy Tucker Time	254	01/1940 • The Man That Comes Around • 161 pts 12/1940 • There I Go • 93 pts
31.	Cliff Edwards	253	1940 • Give a Little Whistle • 106 pts • from Pinocchio: Recorded from the Original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production Pinocchio 1940 • When You Wish upon a Star • 147 pts • from Pinocchio: Recorded from the Original soundtrack of the Walt Disney Production Pinocchio
32.	Tony Martin	253	04/1940 • It's a Blue World • 147 pts 08/1940 • Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) • 106 pts
33.	Vaughn Monroe	229	12/1940 • There I Go • 229 pts
34.	Art Kassel and His Kassels-in-the-Air	226	1940 • It's All Over Now (I Won't Worry) • 83 pts
35.	Bob Chester and His Orchestra	210	10/1940 • Practice Makes Perfect • 210 pts
36.	Fats Waller	210	05/1940 • Little Curly Hair in a High Chair • 210 pts
37.	Dick Robertson & His Orchestra	209	1940 • Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me) • 130 pts
38.	Wayne King and His Orchestra	179	08/1940 • Where Was I? • 93 pts 11/1940 • You Are My Sunshine • 86 pts
39.	Bobby Byrne and His Orchestra	179	03/1940 • You Walk By • 86 pts 10/1940 • Maybe • 93 pts
40.	Ray Noble and His Orchestra	179	12/1940 • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • 113 pts
41.	Earl Hines and His Orchestra	176	08/1940 • Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues • 116 pts
42.	Will Glahé	166	07/1940 • Woodpecker • 86 pts
43.	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	160	06/1940 • No Name Jive (Parts 1 & 2) • 160 pts • from Casa Loma in Hi-Fi!
44.	Blue Barron and His Orchestra	147	03/1940 • Darn That Dream • 147 pts
45.	Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell	130	1940 • Between 18th & 19th on Chestnut Street • 130 pts
46.	Count Basie	126
47.	Hal Kemp and His Orchestra	116	01/1940 • The Little Red Fox • 116 pts
48.	Raymond Scott and His Orchestra	113	09/1940 • Huckleberry Duck • 113 pts
49.	Al Kavelin and His Cascading Chords	113	10/1940 • Practice Makes Perfect • 113 pts
50.	Bea Wain	113	08/1940 • I'm Nobody's Baby • 113 pts