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Eddie Fisher (pictured) with Hugo Winterhalter had four songs on the year-end top 30.
Johnnie Ray had four songs on the year-end top 30.

This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1952 by retail sales. [1]

No. Title Artist(s)
1 " Blue Tango" Leroy Anderson
2 " Wheel of Fortune" Kay Starr
3 " Cry" Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
4 " You Belong to Me" Jo Stafford with Paul Weston
5 " Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart" Vera Lynn with Her Majesty's Forces and Roland Shaw
6 " Half as Much" Rosemary Clooney with Percy Faith
7 " Wish You Were Here" Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter
8 " I Went to Your Wedding" Patti Page
9 " Here in My Heart" Al Martino
10 " Delicado" Percy Faith with Stan Freeman
11 " Kiss of Fire" Georgia Gibbs with Glenn Osser
12 " Anytime" Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter
13 " Tell Me Why" The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
14 " The Blacksmith Blues" Ella Mae Morse with Nelson Riddle
15 " Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and Norman Luboff
16 " Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" Rosemary Clooney
17 " A Guy Is a Guy" Doris Day with Paul Weston
18 " The Little White Cloud That Cried" Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
19 " High Noon" Frankie Laine
20 " I'm Yours" Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter
21 " The Glow-Worm" The Mills Brothers and Hal McIntyre
22 " It's in the Book" Johnny Standley with Horace Heidt
23 " Slow Poke" Pee Wee King with Redd Stewart
24 " Walkin' My Baby Back Home" Johnnie Ray with Buddy Cole
25 " Meet Mister Callaghan" Les Paul
26 " I'm Yours" Don Cornell with Norman Leyden
27 " I'll Walk Alone"
28 " Tell Me Why" Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter
29 " Trying" The Hilltoppers
30 " Please, Mr. Sun" Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads

See also

References

  1. ^ "1952's Top Popular Records according to Retail Sales" (PDF). The Billboard. 64 (52): 19. December 27, 1952 – via WorldRadioHistory.