Top Songs of 1949
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Song▼ Genres▼
1
130
 Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Traditional Country
2
1423
 Hank Williams Lovesick Blues Traditional Country
3
1696
 Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Foggy Mountain Breakdown Bluegrass
4
1816
 Yves Montand Les Feuilles mortes Chanson
5
2320
 Hank Williams Lost Highway Honky Tonk
6
2740
 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Saturday Night Fish Fry Jump-Blues, New Orleans R&B
7
3044
 Vaughn Monroe (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) Cowboy
8
3210
 Thelonious Monk Misterioso Bebop
9
3453
 Gene Autry Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas Music, Western Swing
10
3640
 Woody Herman Early Autumn Big Band, Dixieland, Swing
11
3975
 Miles Davis Boplicity Cool Jazz
12
4504
 Anton Karas Harry Lime Theme Film Soundtrack
13
6553
 Coleman Hawkins Picasso Bebop
14
6841
 The Delmore Brothers Blues Stay Away from Me Bluegrass, Close Harmony
15
6860
 Lee Konitz & Lennie Tristano Subconscious-Lee Cool Jazz
16
6991
 Chuck Wagon Gang I'll Fly Away Country Gospel
17
7104
 Miles Davis Israel Cool Jazz
18
7350
 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan Baby, It's Cold Outside Vocal Jazz
19
7814
 Dizzy Gillespie Cubana Be / Cubana Bop Afro-Cuban Jazz
20
8033
 Miles Davis Jeru Cool Jazz
21
8396
 Ivory Joe Hunter I Almost Lost My Mind Rhythm & Blues, Traditional Pop
22
8646
 Floyd Tillman Slipping Around Country
23
8768
 Dinah Washington Baby Get Lost Vocal Jazz
24
8864
 The Mills Brothers Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) Vocal Group
25
9127
 Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun Traditional Pop
26
9128
 Russ Morgan & His Orchestra Cruising Down the River Easy Listening, Traditional Pop
27
9129
 Vic Damone You're Breaking My Heart Traditional Pop
28
9621
 Ezio Pinza Some Enchanted Evening Show Tunes, Traditional Pop
29
9910
 Jo Stafford&Gordon MacRae "A" You're Adorable Traditional Pop
30
9943
 Francis Lemarque À Paris Chanson à texte
31
9971
 Wynonie Harris All She Wants to Do Is Rock Jump-Blues

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Nathan Abshire Pine Grove Blues Cajun
Jimmy Preston Rock the Joint Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
Bud Powell Dance of the Infidels Bebop
Machito & His Afro-Cubans with Charlie Parker Tangá Afro-Cuban Jazz
Thelonious Monk Humph Bebop
Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers The Huckle-Buck Rhythm & Blues
Charlie Parker Cool Blues Cool Jazz
Frankie Laine Mule Train Country Pop
Thelonious Monk I Should Care Hard Bop, Stride, Vocal Jazz
Mel Tormé Blue Moon Traditional Pop
Lightnin' Hopkins Baby Please Don't Go Acoustic Texas Blues
John Lee Hooker Crawlin' King Snake Electric Blues
Frank Sinatra Body and Soul Standards, Vocal Jazz