Top Artists of 1949 - Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

US & UK hit charts

1948 <-

1949

-> 1950

	Artist	Points	Songs
1.	Perry Como	2584	01/1949 • Far Away Places • 248 pts 02/1949 • Blue Room • 94 pts 03/1949 • Forever and Ever • 313 pts 04/1949 • A-You're Adorable • 362 pts 04/1949 • Bali Ha'i • 226 pts 04/1949 • Some Enchanted Evening • 363 pts 05/1949 • I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore • 134 pts 07/1949 • Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk • 111 pts 10/1949 • A Dreamer's Holiday • 265 pts 11/1949 • I Wanna Go Home (With You) • 95 pts
2.	Bing Crosby	2057	01/1949 • Far Away Places • 313 pts 01/1949 • Galway Bay • 264 pts 05/1949 • Careless Hands • 127 pts 05/1949 • Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) • 115 pts 05/1949 • Some Enchanted Evening • 265 pts 06/1949 • Bali Ha'i • 127 pts 11/1949 • Mule Train • 248 pts 12/1949 • Dear Hearts and Gentle People • 312 pts 12/1949 • White Christmas • 225 pts
3.	Russ Morgan	1553	02/1949 • Cruising Down the River • 363 pts 02/1949 • Sunflower • 226 pts 03/1949 • Forever and Ever • 363 pts 03/1949 • You, You, You Are the One • 98 pts 09/1949 • That's My Weakness Now • 98 pts 12/1949 • Blue Christmas • 133 pts 12/1949 • Johnson Rag • 187 pts
4.	Vaughn Monroe	1430	01/1949 • Red Roses for a Blue Lady • 265 pts 04/1949 • Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) • 396 pts 08/1949 • Someday • 363 pts 09/1949 • That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) • 207 pts 11/1949 • Mule Train • 145 pts
5.	Jo Stafford	1179	01/1949 • Congratulations • 121 pts 04/1949 • Once and for Always • 104 pts 05/1949 • Some Enchanted Evening • 248 pts 08/1949 • Homework • 134 pts 08/1949 • Just One Way to Say I Love You • 127 pts 09/1949 • Ragtime Cowboy Joe • 144 pts 10/1949 • The Last Mile Home • 157 pts
6.	Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye	1090	02/1949 • Careless Hands • 265 pts 02/1949 • Powder Your Face with Sunshine • 121 pts 06/1949 • Room Full of Roses • 313 pts 06/1949 • The Four Winds and the Seven Seas • 264 pts
7.	Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae	964	03/1949 • A You're Adorable • 248 pts 04/1949 • Need You • 187 pts 08/1949 • Whispering Hope • 249 pts 12/1949 • Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) • 121 pts 12/1949 • Echoes • 95 pts
8.	Vic Damone	904	04/1949 • Again • 207 pts 06/1949 • You're Breaking My Heart • 363 pts 07/1949 • Four Winds and Seven Seas • 104 pts 08/1949 • My Bolero • 144 pts
9.	Frankie Laine	865	08/1949 • That Lucky Old Sun • 363 pts 11/1949 • Mule Train • 362 pts
10.	Mel Tormé	855	03/1949 • Careless Hands • 361 pts 04/1949 • Again • 264 pts 07/1949 • The Four Winds and the Seven Seas • 145 pts
11.	Frank Sinatra	832	03/1949 • Sunflower • 114 pts 06/1949 • Some Enchanted Evening • 206 pts 06/1949 • The Huckle Buck • 145 pts 07/1949 • Bali Ha'i • 95 pts 10/1949 • Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go • 158 pts 10/1949 • That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) • 114 pts
12.	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	825	02/1949 • Red Roses for a Blue Lady • 171 pts 04/1949 • Everywhere You Go • 92 pts 05/1949 • Merry-Go-Round Waltz • 95 pts 08/1949 • The Four Winds and the Seven Seas • 91 pts 10/1949 • Hop-Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot) • 134 pts
13.	Art Mooney	817	02/1949 • Beautiful Eyes • 95 pts 05/1949 • Again • 187 pts 07/1949 • Twenty-Four Hours of Sunshine • 121 pts 09/1949 • Hop-Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot) • 105 pts 10/1949 • Toot, Too, Tootsie (Good-Bye) • 91 pts
14.	Eddy Howard	768	07/1949 • Room Full of Roses • 249 pts 08/1949 • Maybe It's Because • 158 pts
15.	Paul Weston and His Orchestra	762	03/1949 • The Hot Canary • 128 pts 06/1949 • Bali Ha'i • 144 pts 07/1949 • Some Enchanted Evening • 158 pts 10/1949 • Lingering Down the Lane • 104 pts
16.	Dick Haymes	759	06/1949 • Room Full of Roses • 207 pts 07/1949 • Maybe It's Because • 226 pts 12/1949 • The Old Master Painter • 248 pts
17.	Dinah Shore	718	01/1949 • Far Away Places • 114 pts 04/1949 • Forever and Ever • 128 pts 11/1949 • Dear Hearts and Gentle People • 313 pts
18.	Doris Day	678	05/1949 • Again • 313 pts 10/1949 • Canadian Capers (Cuttin' Capers) • 111 pts 11/1949 • (There's a) Bluebird on Your Windowsill • 91 pts
19.	Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely	678	09/1949 • Slipping Around • 401 pts 11/1949 • I'll Never Slip Around Again • 203 pts
20.	The Mills Brothers	648	02/1949 • I Love You So Much It Hurts • 193 pts 02/1949 • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm • 158 pts 08/1949 • Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) • 226 pts
21.	Billy Eckstine	619	01/1949 • Blue Moon • 99 pts 01/1949 • Bewildered • 95 pts
22.	Tony Martin	594	05/1949 • If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon • 98 pts 11/1949 • There's No Tomorrow • 313 pts 12/1949 • Marta (Rambling Rose of the Wildwood) • 111 pts
23.	Peggy Lee	593	04/1949 • Similau (See-Me-Lo) • 98 pts 05/1949 • Bali Ha'i • 122 pts 05/1949 • Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) • 312 pts
24.	The Andrews Sisters	581	09/1949 • I Can Dream, Can't I • 363 pts
25.	Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra	578	04/1949 • Again • 313 pts 09/1949 • Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) • 265 pts
26.	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra	566	01/1949 • Down by the Station • 134 pts 06/1949 • Again • 206 pts 06/1949 • The Huckle-Buck • 226 pts
27.	Eddy Arnold	529	02/1949 • Don't Rob Another Man's Castle • 113 pts 05/1949 • One Kiss Too Many • 113 pts 07/1949 • I'm Throwing Rice (At the Girl That I Love) • 129 pts
28.	Blue Barron and His Orchestra	526	01/1949 • Cruising Down the River • 363 pts 02/1949 • Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) • 95 pts
29.	Buddy Clark	516	08/1949 • You're Breaking My Heart • 248 pts 11/1949 • A Dreamer's Holiday • 128 pts
30.	Gene Autry	488	12/1949 • Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer • 399 pts 12/1949 • Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane) • 89 pts
31.	Jack Smith	482	01/1949 • Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) • 98 pts 02/1949 • Cruising Down the River • 264 pts 04/1949 • Sunflower • 120 pts
32.	Margaret Whiting	445	04/1949 • Forever and Ever • 226 pts 05/1949 • A Wonderful Guy • 128 pts 09/1949 • Dime a Dozen • 91 pts
33.	Ernest Tubb	438	11/1949 • Slipping Around • 136 pts 12/1949 • Blue Christmas • 113 pts
34.	Yogi Yorgesson	411	12/1949 • I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas • 225 pts 12/1949 • Yingle Bells • 186 pts
35.	Tony Pastor and His Orchestra	342	02/1949 • Grieving for You • 133 pts 05/1949 • A-You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song) • 127 pts
36.	Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra	334	09/1949 • You're Breaking My Heart • 114 pts 11/1949 • Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) • 157 pts
37.	Sarah Vaughan	319	06/1949 • Black Coffee • 120 pts 09/1949 • That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) • 114 pts
38.	Richard Hayes	312	12/1949 • The Old Master Painter • 312 pts
39.	Hugo Winterhalter	301	10/1949 • Jealous Heart • 144 pts 12/1949 • Blue Christmas • 157 pts
40.	Evelyn Knight	293
41.	Gordon MacRae	290	11/1949 • Mule Train • 114 pts 12/1949 • Dear Hearts and Gentle People • 91 pts
42.	The Ink Spots	288	08/1949 • You're Breaking My Heart • 206 pts
43.	Spike Jones and His City Slickers	287	08/1949 • Dance of the Hours • 121 pts 12/1949 • My Two Front Teeth (All I Want for Christmas) [R] • 94 pts
44.	Louis Jordan	277	10/1949 • Saturday Night Fish Fry (Pts. 1 & 2) • 130 pts
45.	Hank Williams	274	05/1949 • Lovesick Blues • 110 pts
46.	Tennessee Ernie Ford	271	11/1949 • Mule Train • 195 pts
47.	The Andrews Sisters and Russ Morgan and His Orchestra	270	12/1949 • Charley My Boy • 111 pts
48.	Al Morgan	267	07/1949 • Jealous Heart • 267 pts
49.	Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer	265	05/1949 • Baby, It's Cold Outside • 265 pts
50.	Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark	265	05/1949 • Baby, It's Cold Outside • 265 pts