List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1948
In 1948, Billboard magazine published two chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in African-American-oriented musical genres. The Most Played Juke Box Race Records chart had been published since 1845; placings were based on a weekly survey among jukebox operators. In May the magazine added the Best Selling Retail Race Records listing, compiled based on a survey of record stores nationwide in which the majority of customers purchased R&B records. The two charts are considered to be part of the lineage of the magazine's multimetric R&B chart,[1] which since 2005 has been published under the title Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs.
Chart history
| Issue date | Juke Box | Best Sellers | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Artist(s) | Title | Artist(s) | ||
| January 3 | "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" | Julia Lee and her Boy Friends | — | ||
| January 10 | |||||
| January 17 | |||||
| January 24 | |||||
| January 31 | |||||
| February 7 | |||||
| February 14 | |||||
| February 21 | "I Love You Yes I Do" | Bull Moose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats | |||
| February 28 | |||||
| March 6 | |||||
| March 13 | |||||
| March 20 | "King Size Papa" | Julia Lee and her Boy Friends | |||
| March 27 | |||||
| April 3 | |||||
| April 10 | |||||
| April 17 | |||||
| April 24 | |||||
| May 1 | |||||
| May 8 | |||||
| May 15 | |||||
| May 22 | "Tomorrow Night" | Lonnie Johnson | "Tomorrow Night" | Lonnie Johnson | |
| Issue date | Title | Artist(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June | "Good Rockin' Tonight" | Wynonie Harris | 1 week |
| 10 July | "Long Gone (Parts I & II)" | Sonny Thompson | 3 weeks* |
| 10 July | "Run Joe" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five | 2 weeks* |
| 24 July | "I Can't Go on Without You" | Bull Moose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats | 8 weeks |
| 4 September | "Messin' Around" | Memphis Slim and his House Rockers | 2 weeks* |
| 11 September | "My Heart Belongs to You" | Arbee Stidham | 1 week |
| 18 September | "Pretty Mama Blues" | Ivory Joe Hunter | 3 weeks |
| 2 October | "Corn Bread" | Hal Singer Sextette | 4 weeks* |
| 2 October | "Late Freight" | Sonny Thompson Quintet | 1 week |
| 9 October | "Am I Asking Too Much" | Dinah Washington | 1 week |
| 6 November | "Blues After Hours" | Pee Wee Crayton | 3 weeks* |
| 27 November | "It's Too Soon to Know" | The Orioles | 1 week |
| 4 December | "Chicken Shack Boogie" | Amos Milburn | 5 weeks* |
| 4 December | "Bewildered" | Red Miller Trio | 5 weeks* |
| 18 December | "'Long About Midnight" | Roy Brown | 1 week |
| 25 December | "Bewildered" | Amos Milburn | 3 weeks* |
References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top R & B Singles, 1942-1995. Record Research Incorporated. p. xii. ISBN 9780898201154.