Top Songs of 1944
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Song▼ Genres▼
1
1173
 Les Brown & His Orchestra Sentimental Journey Big Band, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
2
2704
 Nat King Cole Straighten Up and Fly Right Standards, Vocal Jazz
3
3045
 Bing Crosby Swinging on a Star Standards
4
3852
 Betty Hutton It Had to Be You Big Band, Vocal Jazz
5
4026
 Bing Crosby I'll Be Seeing You Traditional Pop
6
4230
 Tommy Dorsey Opus No. 1 Swing
7
4788
 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Don't Fence Me In Traditional Pop
8
5461
 Coleman Hawkins The Man I Love Bebop
9
5890
 Kansas City Six [Lester Young] The Prez Got Rhythm/I Got Rhythm Bebop
10
5916
 Johnny Mercer Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Vocal Jazz
11
6312
 The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall Traditional Pop, Vocal Group
12
6450
 The Andrews Sisters Rum and Coca-Cola Calypso, Vocal Group
13
6540
 Judy Garland The Trolley Song Film Soundtrack, Traditional Pop
14
7345
 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Pistol Packin' Mama Traditional Pop
15
7881
 The Mills Brothers You Always Hurt the One You Love Traditional Pop, Vocal Group
16
8376
 The King Cole Trio Embraceable You Vocal Jazz
17
9126
 The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald I'm Making Believe Traditional Pop, Vocal Group
18
9794
 Duke Ellington Main Stem Big Band

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five G.I. Jive Jump-Blues
Nat King Cole It's Only a Paper Moon Standards, Vocal Jazz
Coleman Hawkins Yesterdays Bebop
Lead Belly (Black Gal) Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Delta Blues
Cecil Gant I Wonder Boogie Woogie, Piano Blues, Stride
Josh White House of the Rising Sun Blues
Lead Belly In New Orleans Delta Blues