List of Billboard number-one singles of 1944

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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1944 according to The Billboard. Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100, The Billboard published multiple singles charts each week. In 1944, the following two all-genre national singles charts were published:

  • National Best Selling Retail Records – ranked the highest-selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the United States.
  • Most Played Juke Box Records (introduced January 8) – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States, as reported by machine operators.

Shown are the songs that topped the National Best Selling Retail Records and Most Played Juke Box Records charts in 1944.

Issue date National Best Selling Retail Records Most Played Juke Box Records Ref.
January 1 "Paper Doll"
The Mills Brothers
January 8 "Paper Doll"
The Mills Brothers
January 15 "Shoo-Shoo Baby"
The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
January 22
January 29 "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)"
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird
February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 4 "Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)"
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
March 11
March 18 "Mairzy Doats"
The Merry Macs
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 15
April 22 "It's Love-Love-Love"
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians with Skip Nelson and the Lombardo Trio
"Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)"
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
April 29 "San Fernando Valley"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
May 6 "I Love You"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
May 13
May 20
May 27 "I Love You"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
June 3 "San Fernando Valley"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
June 10 "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)"
Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes
"I Love You"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
June 17 "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)"
Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes
June 24
July 1 "I'll Be Seeing You"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
July 8 "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)"
Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes
July 15 "I'll Be Seeing You"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
July 22
July 29 "G.I. Jive"
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
August 5 "Swinging on a Star"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet
August 12
August 19 "Swinging on a Star"
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet
August 26
September 2
September 9
September 16
September 23
September 30
October 7 "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
The Mills Brothers
October 14 "I'll Walk Alone"
Dinah Shore
"(There'll Be a) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)"
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
October 21 "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
The Mills Brothers
October 28
November 4 "I'll Walk Alone"
Dinah Shore
November 11
November 18
November 25 "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
The Mills Brothers
"I'll Walk Alone"
Dinah Shore
December 2 "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"
The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
December 9 "I'm Making Believe"
The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
December 16 "Don't Fence Me In"
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
December 23 "Don't Fence Me In"
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
December 30

See also

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