List of Billboard number-one singles of the 1940s
Weeks at number one Song Artist ( s )
13 Frenesi Artie Shaw
13 I 've Heard That Song Before Harry James
12 Heartaches Ted Weems
12 Near You Francis Craig
12 Paper Doll Mills Brothers
12 I 'll Never Smile Again Tommy Dorsey
11 Riders In The Sky Vaughn Monroe
11 White Christmas Bing Crosby
10 Amapola Jimmy Dorsey
10 Moonlight Cocktail Glenn Miller
10 The Gypsy The Ink Spots
10 Ballerina Vaughn Monroe
Statistics by decade -- Songs by total number of weeks at number-one
The following songs were featured in top of the chart for the highest total number of weeks during 1940–1949 .
This article is about the US number-one songs chart held during the 1940s. Billboard number-one singles chart (which preceded the Billboard Hot 100 chart), which was updated weekly by the Billboard magazine, was the main singles chart of the American music industry since 1940 and until the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in 1958. Before the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in August 1958, which was based on a formula combining sales data of commercially available singles and airplay on American radio stations, the Billboard used to publish several song popularity charts weekly. Throughout most of the 1940s the magazine published the following three charts: