List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1948

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Stan Kenton's (pictured in 1948; right) A Presentation of Progressive Jazz was the best-selling album of the year and topped the chart for eight consecutive weeks. Stan Kenton and Pete Rugolo, 1947 or 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 04891).jpg
Stan Kenton's (pictured in 1948; right)A Presentation of Progressive Jazz was the best-selling album of the year and topped the chart for eight consecutive weeks.
Bing Crosby's (pictured in 1951) Merry Christmas was atop the chart in January, November and December for seven weeks. Bing Crosby 1951.jpg
Bing Crosby's (pictured in 1951) Merry Christmas was atop the chart in January, November and December for seven weeks.

The Billboard magazine publishes a weekly chart that ranks the best-selling albums in the United States. The chart nowadays known as the Billboard 200 was titled Best-Selling Popular Record Albums in 1948 and was based on a "weekly survey among 4,970 dealers In all sections of the country. [1] During the year, eleven albums by fifteen artists topped the chart.

Contents

Like in the previous years, Merry Christmas by Bing Crosby was the first album to top the chart in the year. It started its run in the issue dated November 15, 1947 and stayed atop for the first week in January. In the issue dated November 15, 1948, the album again ascended to number one for an additional six weeks, for a total of seven weeks at number one in 1948 and a total of 27 weeks since December 1945. [note 1]

Chart history

Key
Dagger-14-plain.pngIndicates best selling album of 1948 [5]
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Ref.
January 3 Merry Christmas Bing Crosby [1]
January 10Al Jolson Souvenir Album Al Jolson [6]
January 17 Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II Glenn Miller & His Orchestra [7]
January 24Dorothy Shay Goes To Town Dorothy Shay [8]
January 31 Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II Glenn Miller & His Orchestra [9]
February 7 [10]
February 14 [11]
February 21 [12]
February 28A Sentimental Date with Perry Perry Como [13]
March 6 [14]
March 13 [15]
March 20 St. Patrick's Day Bing Crosby [16]
March 27 [17]
April 3Down Memory Lane Vaughn Monroe [18]
April 10 [19]
April 17 [20]
April 24 [21]
May 1 [22]
May 8 [23]
May 15Busy Fingers The Three Suns [24]
May 22Songs of Our Times – 1932 Carmen Cavallaro [25]
May 29 A Presentation of Progressive Jazz Dagger-14-plain.png Stan Kenton [26]
June 5 [27]
June 12 [28]
June 19 [29]
June 26 [30]
July 3 [31]
July 10 [32]
July 17 [33]
July 24Al Jolson Volume IIIAl Jolson [34]
July 31 [35]
August 7 [36]
August 14 [37]
August 21 [38]
August 28 [39]
September 4 [40]
September 11 [41]
September 18 [42]
September 25 [43]
October 2 [44]
October 9 [45]
October 16Theme Songs Tommy Dorsey, Sammy Kaye, Larry Green, Vaughn Monroe,
Freddy Martin, Wayne King & The Three Suns
[46]
October 23Al Jolson Volume IIIAl Jolson [47]
October 30 [48]
November 6Theme SongsTommy Dorsey, Sammy Kaye, Larry Green, Vaughn Monroe,
Freddy Martin, Wayne King & The Three Suns
[49]
November 13 [50]
November 20Merry ChristmasBing Crosby [51]
November 27 [52]
December 4 [53]
December 11 [54]
December 18 [55]
December 25 [56]

See also

Footnotes

  1. 4 weeks in 1945; [2] 8 weeks in 1946; [3] 8 weeks in 1947; [4] 6 weeks in 1948

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