List of the best-selling singles in the USA (1948)
This is the list of the best-selling singles on the United States' 1948 Best Sellers in Stores chart by Billboard .
| rank | Interpreter | Title & composer | Label & catalog number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pee Wee Hunt | Twelfth Street Rag (Al Bowman) - B-Side: Somebody Else, Not Me | Capitol 15105 |
| 2 | Peggy Lee | Manana ( Dave Barbour & Peggy Lee) - B-Side: All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart | Capitol 15022 |
| 3 | Bing Crosby | Now Is The Hour (Maiwa Kaihau, Clement Scott & Dorothy Stewart) - B-side: Silver Threads Among the Gold | Decca 24279 |
| 4th | Margaret Whiting | A Tree in the Meadow (Billy Reid) - B-Side: I'm Sorry But I'm Glad | Capitol 15122 |
| 5 | Jon Steele & Sandra Steele | My Happiness (Betty Petersen & Borney Bergantine) - B-Side: They All Recorded To Beat The Run | Damon 11133 |
| 6th | Ken Griffin & Jerry Wayne | You Can't Be True, Dear ( Hans Otten & Gerhard Ebeler ) - B-side: Doodle Doo Doo | Rondo 228 |
| 7th | Dick Haymes | Little White Lies ( Walter Donaldson ) - B-side: The Treasure O + of Sierra Madre | Decca 24280 |
| 8th | Al Trace | You Call Everybody Darling (Sam Martin, Ben Trance & Clem Watts) - B-Side: Linger Awhile | Regent 117 |
| 9 | The Pied Pipers | My Happiness (Betty Petersen & Borney Bergantine) - B-Side: Highway to Love | Capitol 15094 |
| 10 | Kind Mooney | I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover ( Mort Dixon & Harry MacGregor Woods ) - B-Side: The Big Brass Band from Brazil | MGM 10119 |
| 11 | Doris Day | It's Magic ( Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne ) - B-Side: Put 'em in a Box | Columbia 38188 |
| 12 | Gordon Jenkins | Maybe You'll Be There (Sammy Gallop & Rube Bloom ) - B-Side: Dark Eyes | Decca 24403 |
| 13 | Vaughn Monroe | Ballerina ( Carl Sigman & Bob Russell) - B-Side: The Stars Will Remember | Victor 20-2433 |
| 14th | Nat King Cole | Nature Boy (Eden Ahbez) - B-Side: Lost April | Capitol 15054 |
| 15th | Kay Kyser | Woody Woodpecker (Tibbles and Indris) - B-Side: When Veronica Plays the Harmonica | Columbia 38197 |
| 16 | Doris Day & Buddy Clark | Love Somebody (Kramer & Whitney) - B-Side: Confess | Columbia 38174 |
| 17th | Gracie Fields | Now Is the Hour (Maiwa Kaihau, Clement Scott & Dorothy Stewart) - B-Side: Come Back to Sorrento | London 110 |
| 18th | Francis Craig | Beg Your Pardon (Francis Craig & Beasley Smith) - B-Side: I'm Looking for a Sweetheart | Bullet 1012 |
| 19th | Ken Griffin | You Can't Be True, Dear (Hans Otten & Gerhard Ebeler) - B-side: The Cuchee Waltz | Rondo 128 |
| 20th | The Andrews Sisters | Toolie Oolie Doolie (Vaughn Horton & Arthur Beul) - B-Side: I Hate to Lose You | Decca 24380 |
Remarks
- ↑ The overview was published in Billboard Magazine on January 1, 1949, pp. 12f. Further information on composers, B-sides, etc. was taken from other sources.
- ↑ At number 10 of the best-selling singles in 1947