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Bing Crosby had three songs on the year-end top 30.
The Ames Brothers had three songs on the year-end top 30.

This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1950 according to retail sales. [1]

No. Title Artist(s)
1 " Goodnight Irene" Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers
2 " Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole with Les Baxter
3 " Third Man Theme" Anton Karas
4 " Sam's Song" Gary & Bing Crosby with Matty Matlock
5 " Play a Simple Melody"
6 " Music, Music, Music" Teresa Brewer
7 " Third Man Theme" Guy Lombardo
8 " Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" Red Foley
9 " Harbor Lights" Sammy Kaye
10 " It Isn't Fair" Sammy Kaye & Don Cornell
11 " If I Knew You Were Coming I'd have Baked a Cake" Eileen Barton with Morty Craft
12 " Bonaparte's Retreat" Kay Starr with Lou Busch
13 " Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers
14 " There's No Tomorrow" Tony Martin with Henri René
15 " The Thing" Phil Harris with Walter Scharf
16 " Sentimental Me" Ames Brothers
17 " I Wanna Be Loved" Andrews Sisters & Gordon Jenkins
18 " Tennessee Waltz" Patti Page
19 " I Can Dream, Can't I" Andrews Sisters & Gordon Jenkins
20 " I'll Never Be Free" Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie Ford
21 " All My Love" Patti Page
22 " My Foolish Heart" Gordon Jenkins
23 " Rag Mop" Ames Brothers
24 " Bewitched" Bill Snyder
25 " Hoop-Dee-Doo" Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres
26 " Bewitched" Gordon Jenkins
27 " Can Anyone Explain?" Ames Brothers
28 " My Foolish Heart" Billy Eckstine
29 " Dear Hearts and Gentle People" Bing Crosby with Judd Conlon and Perry Botkin
30 " The Cry of the Wild Goose" Frankie Laine with Carl T. Fischer

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Year's Top Popular Records according to Retail Sales" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 63, no. 2. January 13, 1951. p. 18.