This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1948 according to retail sales. No. (Rank) Title Artist(s)1 (1) "Twelfth Street Rag" Pee Wee Hunt2 (2) "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour3 (3) "Now Is the Hour" Bing Crosby with Ken Darby4 (4) "A Tree in the Meadow" Margaret Whiting5 (5) "My Happiness" Jon and Sondra Steele6 (6) "You Can't Be True, Dear" Ken Griffin and Jerry Wayne7 (7) "Little White Lies" Dick Haymes and Gordon Jenkins8 (8) "You Call Everybody Darlin'" Al Trace with Bob Vincent9 (9) "My Happiness" The Pied Pipers10 (10) "I'm Looking over a Four Leaf Clover" Art Mooney11 (11) "It's Magic" Doris Day12 (12) "Maybe You'll Be There" Gordon Jenkins13 (13) "Ballerina" Vaughn Monroe14 (14) "Nature Boy" King Cole with Frank De Vol15 (15) "Woody Woodpecker" Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood16 (16) "Love Somebody" Doris Day and Buddy Clark with George Siravo17 (17) "Now Is the Hour" Gracie Fields with Phil Green18 (18) "Beg Your Pardon" Francis Craig19 (19) "You Can't Be True, Dear" Ken Griffin20 (20) "Toolie Oolie Doolie" The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen21 (21) "Buttons and Bows" Dinah Shore22 (22) "Golden Earrings" Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour23 (23) "Baby Face" Art Mooney23 (23) "Too Fat Polka" Arthur Godfrey with Archie Bleyer24 (25) "Because" Perry Como with Russ Case24 (25) "My Happiness" Ella Fitzgerald with the Song Spinners25 (27) "Serenade of the Bells" Sammy Kaye26 (28) "Until" Tommy Dorsey27 (29) "William Tell Overture" Spike Jones28 (30) "Beg Your Pardon" Frankie Carle29 (31) "St. Louis Blues March" Tex Beneke29 (31) "Underneath the Arches" Primo Scala30 (33) "On a Slow Boat to China" Kay Kyser30 (33) "Woody Woodpecker" The Sportsmen and Mel Blanc31 (35) "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" Ray Noble and Buddy Clark32 (36) "The Dicky-Bird Song" Freddy Martin33 (37) "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Russ Morgan and Milt Herth34 (38) "How Soon" Vaughn Monroe35 (39) "Serenade of the Bells" Jo Stafford

See also 1948 in music List of Billboard number-one singles of 1948

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