This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1947 according to retail sales. No. (Rank) Title Artist(s)1 (1) "Near You" Francis Craig2 (2) "Peg o' My Heart" The Harmonicats3 (3) "Heartaches" Ted Weems4 (4) "Linda" Ray Noble Orchestra and Buddy Clark4 (5) "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" Tex Williams5 (6) "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" Vaughn Monroe6 (7) "Peg o' My Heart" The Three Suns7 (8) "The Anniversary Song" Al Jolson8 (9) "Near You" Larry Green Orchestra9 (10) "That's My Desire" Sammy Kaye10 (11) "Ballerina" Vaughn Monroe11 (12) "Managua, Nicaragua" Freddy Martin11 (12) "Mam'selle" Art Lund12 (14) "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)" Perry Como12 (14) "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)" Red Ingle and The Natural Seven and Jo Stafford13 (16) "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" Ted Weems and Perry Como14 (17) "Near You" The Andrews Sisters15 (18) "The Old Lamp-Lighter" Sammy Kaye16 (19) "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" Perry Como17 (20) "How Soon" Jack Owens and Eddie Ballantine18 (21) "Too Fat Polka" Arthur Godfrey19 (22) "I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder" Eddy Howard19 (22) "My Adobe Hacienda" Eddy Howard20 (24) "Huggin' and Chalkin'" Hoagy Carmichael21 (25) "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" King Cole Trio21 (26) "Ole Buttermilk Sky" Hoagy Carmichael22 (27) "Mam'selle" Dick Haymes22 (27) "You Do" Vaughn Monroe23 (29) "The Anniversary Song" Guy Lombardo24 (30) "The Anniversary Song" Dinah Shore24 (30) "White Christmas" Bing Crosby25 (32) "Across the Alley from the Alamo" The Mills Brothers26 (33) "Civilization" Danny Kaye and The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen27 (34) "The Old Lamp-Lighter" Kay Kyser28 (35) "Open the Door, Richard!" Count Basie28 (35) "Peg o' My Heart" Art Lund28 (35) "You Do" Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol29 (38) "Feudin' and Fightin'" Dorothy Shay30 (39) "Linda" Charlie Spivak31 (40) "The Anniversary Song" Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra31 (40) "Managua, Nicaragua" Guy Lombardo32 (42) "How Soon" Vaughn Monroe32 (42) "The Whiffenpoof Song" Bing Crosby with Fred Waring33 (44) "Open the Door, Richard!" Dusty Fletcher34 (45) "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" Eddy Howard35 (46) "Golden Earrings" Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour35 (46) "Ole Buttermilk Sky" Kay Kyser
See also 1947 in music List of Billboard number-one singles of 1947
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