title: Billboard year-end top singles of 1948
text: # Billboard year-end top singles of 1948
  
  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 Hunt |
  | 2 (2) | "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" | Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour |
  | 3 (3) | "Now Is the Hour" | Bing Crosby with Ken Darby |
  | 4 (4) | "A Tree in the Meadow" | Margaret Whiting |
  | 5 (5) | "My Happiness" | Jon and Sondra Steele |
  | 6 (6) | "You Can't Be True, Dear" | Ken Griffin and Jerry Wayne |
  | 7 (7) | "Little White Lies" | Dick Haymes and Gordon Jenkins |
  | 8 (8) | "You Call Everybody Darlin'" | Al Trace with Bob Vincent |
  | 9 (9) | "My Happiness" | The Pied Pipers |
  | 10 (10) | "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" | Art Mooney |
  | 11 (11) | "It's Magic" | Doris Day |
  | 12 (12) | "Maybe You'll Be There" | Gordon Jenkins |
  | 13 (13) | "Ballerina" | Vaughn Monroe |
  | 14 (14) | "Nature Boy" | King Cole with Frank De Vol |
  | 15 (15) | "Woody Woodpecker" | Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood |
  | 16 (16) | "Love Somebody" | Doris Day and Buddy Clark with George Siravo |
  | 17 (17) | "Now Is the Hour" | Gracie Fields with Phil Green |
  | 18 (18) | "Beg Your Pardon" | Francis Craig |
  | 19 (19) | "You Can't Be True, Dear" | Ken Griffin |
  | 20 (20) | "Toolie Oolie Doolie" | The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen |
  | 21 (21) | "Buttons and Bows" | Dinah Shore |
  | 22 (22) | "Golden Earrings" | Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour |
  | 23 (23) | "Baby Face" | Art Mooney |
  | 23 (23) | "Too Fat Polka" | Arthur Godfrey with Archie Bleyer |
  | 24 (25) | "Because" | Perry Como with Russ Case |
  | 24 (25) | "My Happiness" | Ella Fitzgerald with the Song Spinners |
  | 25 (27) | "Serenade of the Bells" | Sammy Kaye |
  | 26 (28) | "Until" | Tommy Dorsey |
  | 27 (29) | "William Tell Overture" | Spike Jones |
  | 28 (30) | "Beg Your Pardon" | Frankie Carle |
  | 29 (31) | "St. Louis Blues March" | Tex Beneke |
  | 29 (31) | "Underneath the Arches" | Primo Scala |
  | 30 (33) | "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" | Kay Kyser |
  | 30 (33) | "Woody Woodpecker" | The Sportsmen and Mel Blanc |
  | 31 (35) | "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" | Ray Noble and Buddy Clark |
  | 32 (36) | "The Dicky-Bird Song" | Freddy Martin |
  | 33 (37) | "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" | Russ Morgan and Milt Herth |
  | 34 (38) | "How Soon" | Vaughn Monroe |
  | 35 (39) | "Serenade of the Bells" | Jo Stafford |
  