Rank | Artist | Title | Label | Recorded | Released | Chart positions |
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1 | Bing Crosby | "Swinging on a Star" [5] | Decca 18597 | February 7, 1944 (1944-02-07) | April 1944 (1944-04) | US BB 1944 #1, US #1 for 9 weeks, 28 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales [6] |
2 | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters | "Don't Fence Me In" [7] | Decca 23364 | July 25, 1944 (1944-07-25) | November 1944 (1944-11) | US BB 1944 #2, US #1 for 8 weeks, 21 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales [6] |
3 | Harry James and His Orchestra (Vocal Dick Haymes) | "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)" [8] | Columbia 36698 | April 7, 1941 (1941-04-07) | March 1944 (1944-03) | US BB 1944 #3, US #1 for 6 weeks (Juke Box chart), 29 total weeks |
4 | The Mills Brothers | "You Always Hurt The One You Love" [9] | Decca 18599 | February 27, 1944 (1944-02-27) | May 1944 (1944-05) | US BB 1944 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 32 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #29, Harlem Hit Parade #5 for 3 weeks, 24 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales [6] |
5 | Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra (vocals Bob Eberle and Helen O'connell) | "Besame Mucho" [10] | Decca 18574 | October 7, 1943 (1943-10-07) | December 1943 (1943-12) | US BB 1944 #5, US #1 for 7 weeks, 25 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales [11] |
6 | Dinah Shore | "I'll Walk Alone" [12] | Victor 20-1586 | April 11, 1944 (1944-04-11) [13] | May 19, 1944 (1944-05-19) | US BB 1944 #6, US #1 for 4 weeks, 26 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #44, Harlem Hit Parade #10 for 2 weeks, 2 total weeks, CashBox #1, USPop #1 for 5 weeks, 14 total weeks |
7 | Bing Crosby | "I'll Be Seeing You" [14] | Decca 18595 | February 17, 1944 (1944-02-17) | April 1944 (1944-04) | US BB 1944 #7, US #1 for 4 weeks, 28 total weeks |
8 | Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra | "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)" [15] | Decca 18567 | October 1, 1943 (1943-10-01) | November 1943 (1943-11) | US BB 1944 #8, US #1 for 5 weeks, 24 total weeks |
9 | Red Foley | "Smoke on the Water" [16] | Decca 6102 | May 4, 1944 (1944-05-04) | June 13, 1944 (1944-06-13) | US BB 1944 #57, US #7 for 1 week, 11 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1944 #2, MPJBFR #1 for 13 weeks, 27 total weeks |
10 | Bing Crosby | "I Love You" [17] | Decca 18595 | February 11, 1944 (1944-02-11) | March 1944 (1944-03) | US BB 1944 #9, US #1 for 5 weeks, 19 total weeks |
11 | Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots | "I'm Making Believe" [18] | Decca 23356 | August 30, 1944 (1944-08-30) | October 1944 (1944-10) | US 1944 #10, US #1 for 2 weeks, 18 total weeks, CashBox #4, USPop #1 for 1 week, 24 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #18, Harlem Hit Parade #2 for 1 week, 14 total weeks |
12 | King Cole Trio | "Straighten Up and Fly Right" [19] | Capitol 154 | November 30, 1943 (1943-11-30) | April 14, 1944 (1944-04-14) | US BB 1944 #67, US #9 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #2, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 10 weeks, 24 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1944 #3, MPJBFR #1 for 5 weeks, 16 total weeks |
13 | Bing Crosby | "San Fernando Valley" [20] | Decca 18586 | December 29, 1943 (1943-12-29) | February 1944 (1944-02) | US BB 1944 #11, US #1 for 5 weeks (Juke Box chart), 24 total weeks |
14 | Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots | "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" [21] | Decca 23356 | August 30, 1944 (1944-08-30) | October 1944 (1944-10) | US BB 1944 #16, US #1 for 2 weeks (Juke Box chart), 19 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #1, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 11 weeks, 21 total weeks, CashBox #14, USPop #9 for 1 week, 19 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales [11] |
15 | The Andrews Sisters | "Shoo-Shoo Baby" [22] | Decca 18572 | October 5, 1943 (1943-10-05) | November 1943 (1943-11) | US BB 1944 #12, US #1 for 5 weeks (Juke Box chart), 22 total weeks |
16 | Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five | "G.I. Jive" [23] | Decca 8659 | March 15, 1944 (1944-03-15) | April 1944 (1944-04) | US BB 1944 #13, US #1 for 2 weeks (Juke Box chart), 22 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #4, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 6 weeks, 26 total weeks |
17 | Merry Macs | "Mairzy Doats" [24] | Decca 18588 | December 13, 1943 (1943-12-13) | January 1944 (1944-01) | US BB 1944 #14, US #1 for 5 weeks (Juke Box chart), 14 total weeks, Decca Records' best-selling release of 1944 [25] |
18 | Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes | "Long Ago (and Far Away)" [26] | Decca 23317 | January 27, 1944 (1944-01-27) | April 1944 (1944-04) | US BB 1944 #15, US #2 for 1 week, 20 total weeks |
19 | The Pied Pipers | "The Trolley Song" [27] | Capitol 168 | May 19, 1944 (1944-05-19) | September 1944 (1944-09) | US BB 1944 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 15 total weeks |
20 | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters | "Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" [28] | Decca 23350 | June 30, 1944 (1944-06-30) | August 24, 1944 (1944-08-24) | US BB 1944 #20, US #1 for 6 weeks (Juke Box chart), 15 total weeks |