No. Song-Artist-Peak Month
1 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY-LES BROWN & DORIS DAY-June 1320
2 ON THE ATCHISON TOPEKA & SANTA FE-JOHNNY MERCER & THE PIED PIPERS-August 1232
3 TILL THE END OF TIME-PERRY COMO-September 1186
4 DREAM-PIED PIPERS-June 1106
5 MY DREAMS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME-LES BROWN & DORIS DAY-March 1094
6 IF I LOVED YOU-PERRY COMO-August 1094
7 DON'T FENCE ME IN-BING CROSBY & ANDREWS SISTERS-January 1074
8 THERE! I'VE SAID IT AGAIN-Vaughn Monroe-June 1032
9 IT'S BEEN A LONG LONG TIME-Harry James Orchestra & Kitty Kallen-November 992
10 BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS-Tony Pastor & Ruth Mccullough-June 982
11 Gotta Be This Or That-Benny Goodman-July 884
12 That's For Me-Dick Haymes-November 868
13 Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive-Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers-March 824
14 It Might As Well Be Spring-Dick Haymes-December 820
15 Candy-Johnny Mercer,jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers-April 808
16 I'll Buy That Dream-Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest-October 794
17 Chickery Chick-Sammy Kaye,billy Williams & Nancy Norman Band-December 778
18 I Dream Of You-Tommy Dorsey Orchestra & Freddy Stewart-February 730
19 A Little On The Lonely Side-Frankie Carle & Paul Allen-March 720
20 I Wish I Knew-Dick Haymes-August 700
21 Along The Navajo Trail-Dinah Shore-October 680
22 Laura-Woody Herman-June 680
23 There Goes That Song Aain-Russ Morgan-January 648
24 Waitin' For The Train To Come In-Peggy Lee-December 646
25 I'm Beginning To See The Light-Harry James Orchestra & Kitty Kallen-April 632
26 The More I See You-Dick Haymes-July 620
27 I'm Gonna Love That Guy-Benny Goodman-October 564
28 It's Only A Paper Moon-Ella Fitzgerald-November 548
29 Saturday Night (Is The Loveliest Night Of The Year)-Frank Sinatra-March 530
30 Rum And Coca-Cola-Andrews Sisters-March 508
31 Sweet Dreams,Sweetheart-Ray Noble Orchestra & Larry Stewart-February 508
32 Just A Prayer Away-Bing Crosby & Ethel Smith-April 468
33 (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight-Perry Como-December 458
34 You Belong To My Heart-Bing Crosby & Xavier Cugat-June 428
35 More And More-Tommy Dorsey Orchestra & Bonnie Lou Williams-March 328
36 I Should Care-Frank Sinatra-July 300
37 Love Letters-Dick Haymes-November 292
38 How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky)-Guy Lombardo-November 266
39 You Came Along (From Out Of Nowhere)-Tommy Dorsey-September 238
40 There Must Be A Way-Charlie Spivak-September 214
41 I'm Confessin'-Perry Como-February 194
42 White Christmas-Bing Crosby-December 192
43 Chopin's Polonaise-Carmen Cavallaro-September 180
44 All Of My Life-Sammy Kaye-May 170
45 I Don't Care Who Knows It-Harry James-September 152
46 Tampico-Stan Kenton & June Christy-September 148
47 Sleighride In July-Dinah Shore-March 140
48 Walkin' With My Honey (Soon,soon,soon)-Sammy Kaye-December 76
49 And There You Are-Kate Smith-October 76
50 There's No You-Jo Stafford-September 74
51 Evalina-Bing Crosby-February 50
52 I Didn't Know About You-Count Basie & Thelma Carpenter-January 48
53 Good,Good,Good-Xavier Cugat-June 46
54 Don't You Know I Care-Duke Ellington Orchestra & Al Hibbler-January 46
55 Caldonia-Louis Jordan-June 44
56 Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye-Benny Goodman Orchestra & Peggy Mann-February 44
57 1 Don't Ever Change-Tommy Tucker Orchestra & Don Brown-January 44
58 Yah-ta-ta,yah-ta-ta-Bing Crosby & Judy Garland-May 42
59 Autumn Serenade-Harry James-October 40
60 Homesick-that's All-Frank Sinatra-October 38
61 A Kiss Goodnight-Woody Herman-October 36
62 No Can Do-Guy Lombardo-November 34
63 Lilly Belle-Freddy Martin-December 34
* The first "Honor Rolls of Hits" chart was published in the March 24,1945 issue of Billboard
Magazine.Prior to March 24 charts from "Your Hit Parade" were used to compile this chart.
From March 24 to the end of the year "Honor Roll Of Hits" charts are used in the compilation.