This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1949 according to retail sales.
Year-end list No. Title Artist(s)1 "Riders in the Sky" Vaughn Monroe2 "That Lucky Old Sun" Frankie Laine3 "You're Breaking My Heart" Vic Damone4 "Some Enchanted Evening" Perry Como5 "Slippin' Around" Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting6 "I Can Dream, Can't I?" The Andrews Sisters and Gordon Jenkins7 "Cruising Down the River" Russ Morgan Orchestra8 "A Little Bird Told Me" Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters9 "Mule Train" Frankie Laine10 "Jealous Heart" Al Morgan11 "Cruising Down the River" Blue Barron Orchestra12 "Someday" Vaughn Monroe13 "Again" Doris Day 14 "Forever and Ever" Russ Morgan15 "Forever and Ever" Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres16 "Don't Cry, Joe" Gordon Jenkins Orchestra17 "Room Full of Roses" Sammy Kaye18 "Far Away Places" Bing Crosby and Ken Darby Choir19 "Buttons and Bows" Dinah Shore20 "Galway Bay" Bing Crosby21 "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" Vaughn Monroe22 "So Tired" Russ Morgan23 "Powder Your Face with Sunshine" Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters24 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer25 "Whispering Hope" Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae with Paul Weston26 "Maybe It's Because" Dick Haymes27 "Careless Hands" Sammy Kaye Orchestra28 "'A' You're Adorable" Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters29 "The Hucklebuck" Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Charlie Shavers30 "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and the Stardusters
See also 1949 in music List of Billboard number-one singles of 1949
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