The Year in Billboard #1 Songs - 1950

"Goodnight Irene"  

by

 The Weaver (w/Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra)

August 19th - November 11th
Billboard's #1 Song of 1950
#1 on the Billboard Best Sellers (13 consecutive weeks)
#1 on the Billboard Airplay (8 consecutive weeks)
#1 on the Billboard Jukebox chart (12 consecutive weeks)

The Year in Billboard #1 Songs - 1950

"Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole
July 8th 1950 - August 26th 1950

(5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Best Sellers Chart)

(8 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart)

(5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Most Play in Jukeboxes chart)

The Year in Billboard #1 Songs - 1950

"The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas

April 29th 1950 - July 8th 1950

11 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Best Sellers chart.

The song also reached #1 on the Billboard Most Played in Jukeboxes chart but that version was by Guy Lombardo and His Orchestra.

The Guy Lombardo version 

The Year in Billboard #1 Songs - 1950

"If I Knew You Were Comin' (I'd've Baked a Cake)"

Eileen Barton 

2 weeks at #1 on the Best Sellers in Stores
April 15th - 22nd

10 weeks at #1 on the Most Played by DJs
March 25th - May 27th

3 weeks at #1 on the Most Played in Jukeboxes
April 15th - April 29th

The Year in Billboard #1 Songs - 1950

"Music! Music! Music!" - Teresa Brewer

March 18th - April 8th 1950

One of the biggest selling songs of the year and spent a week at #1 on the Billboard Most Played in Jukeboxes.  

(ed.note - This was one of my great grandfather's favorite songs and he love Teresa)

The Year in Billboard #1 Songs - 1950

"I Can Dream, Can't I?" - The Andrews Sisters

January 14th - February 4th 1950

A tremendous hit for the sisters, they also topped Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes as well as Best Sellers in Stores.

The Year In Billboard Best Selling Songs - 1950

January 7th 1950

"Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"

(1 week at #1) 

This was the first year of the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart and Gene Autry was sitting at #1 with the Christmas classic and soon to be all time best selling song in Billboard history.

The #1 Song of 1950

"Goodnight Irene" by The Weavers

Spent 13 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Bestsellers chart and became the biggest selling song of 1950.