Best Songs Ever

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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1940 according to Billboard magazine. In the July 27, 1940, issue, the maiden 10-position “National List of Best Selling Retail Records” paved the way for seven decades - and counting - of Billboard’s hallmark tracking of music popularity. Prior to July 27, 1940, Billboard had highlighted the national “Sheet Music Best Sellers”; “Records Most Popular on Music Machines” (compiled from national reports from phonograph operators); and, “Songs With the Most Radio Plugs” on a handful of New York radio stations. The “National List of Best Selling Retail Records,“ however, was the first to poll retailers nationwide on record sales. The new chart was billed as a “trade service feature,“ based on... Read on...