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This article is a discography for American artist Bing Crosby. Crosby was considered the world's first multimedia star, having appeared in film, television, radio, and recording. He was an influence on multimedia stars that followed, including Elvis Presley.[1] Musicially, Crosby set the benchmark for the intimate "easy listening" genre that influenced future male artists including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Dick Haymes.[2]

Bing Crosby discography
Bing Crosby, c. 1930s
Singles409
Albums106

Crosby first started recording in 1927 with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, he released his first album containing compilations in 1939, and his first studio album Ballad for Americans, (which contained no re-issued singles) in 1940. His final album Beautiful Memories was released in 1976, however material recorded before his death was issued posthumously in 1977 as the album Seasons. Crosby also recorded with numerous other artists, including Al Jolson, his fellow film stars Judy Garland and Bob Hope, and The Andrews Sisters.

Albums

Year Album Peak
chart
position
1939 Music of Hawaii
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Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. 1
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Patriotic Songs for Children
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Cowboy Songs
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Victor Herbert Melodies, Vol. 2
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George Gershwin Songs, Vol. 1
–
1940 Ballad for Americans
–
Favorite Hawaiian Songs
–
Christmas Music
–
Star Dust
10
(reissue)
1941 Hawaii Calls
–
Small Fry
–
Crosbyana
–
1942 Under Western Skies
–
Song Hits from Holiday Inn
–
1945 Merry Christmas
1
Selections from Going My Way
1
1946 Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's
1
Don't Fence Me In
2
The Happy Prince
–
Selections from Road to Utopia
–
Bing Crosby - Stephen Foster
–
What We So Proudly Hail
–
Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. One
–
Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two
–
Blue Skies
2
Bing Crosby - Jerome Kern
–
1947 St. Patrick's Day
1
Bing Crosby – Victor Herbert
–
Cowboy Songs, Vol. One
–
Selections from Welcome Stranger
–
Our Common Heritage
–
El Bingo - Latin American Favorites
–
The Small One
–
The Man Without a Country
–
Drifting and Dreaming
–
1948 Blue of the Night
–
Selections from Showboat
–
Bing Crosby – The Emperor Waltz
2
St. Valentine's Day
8
Bing Crosby Sings with Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters
–
Selections from Road to Rio
–
Bing Crosby Sings with Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer
–
Bing Crosby Sings with Lionel Hampton, Eddie Heywood, Louis Jordan
–
Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from Broadway Shows
–
Cowboy Songs, Vol. Two
–
Auld Lang Syne
–
Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs
–
1949 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
5
Bing Crosby Sings Songs by George Gershwin
–
South Pacific
8
Christmas Greetings
4
Ichabod - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
–
1950 Top o' the Morning / Emperor Waltz
–
Songs from Mr. Music
10
Go West Young Man
–
Bing Crosby, Collectors' Classics - Vols. 1-8
–
1951 Bing Crosby – Way Back Home
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Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from...
–
Bing and the Dixieland Bands
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Beloved Hymns
–
1952 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
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The Quiet Man
–
Just for You
–
Road to Bali
–
1953 Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris
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Some Fine Old Chestnuts
–
1954 Bing Sings the Hits
–
Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
(w/ Peggy Lee and Danny Kaye)
2
Bing: A Musical Autobiography
9
1955 The Country Girl / Little Boy Lost
–
Merry Christmas
(later version of 1945 78rpm album, later renamed White Christmas in 1995)
–
1956 High Tor
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A Christmas Sing with Bing around the World
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Anything Goes
–
Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around
–
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
–
High Society
(w/ Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong)
5
1957 Bing with a Beat
–
A Christmas Story - An Axe, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket
–
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
–
Never Be Afraid
–
Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy
–
New Tricks
–
The Bible Story of Christmas
-
1958 Fancy Meeting You Here
( w/ Rosemary Clooney)
–
1959 How the West Was Won
–
Say One for Me (album)
–
Join Bing and Sing Along
7 (UK)
1960 El Señor Bing
–
Bing & Satchmo
(w/ Louis Armstrong)
–
101 Gang Songs
–
1961 Holiday in Europe
–
1962 Bing's Hollywood vols.1-15
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The Road to Hong Kong
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On the Happy Side
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On the Sentimental Side
–
I Wish You a Merry Christmas
–
1963 Guys and Dolls
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Finian's Rainbow
–
South Pacific
–
Return to Paradise Islands
–
Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits
–
1964 America, I Hear You Singing
(w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring)
–
Robin and the 7 Hoods
(w/ Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr.)
–
12 Songs of Christmas
(w/ Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring)
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That Travelin' Two-Beat
(w/ Rosemary Clooney)
–
1965 Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love
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1966 A Little Bit of Irish
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1968 Thoroughly Modern Bing
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Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love (1968 version)
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Hey Jude / Hey Bing!
–
1970 Goldilocks
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1971 A Time to Be Jolly
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1972 Bing 'n' Basie
(w/ Count Basie)
–
1975 A Southern Memoir
–
That's What Life Is All About
28 (UK)
Bingo Viejo
–
A Couple of Song and Dance Men
(w/ Fred Astaire)
–
Tom Sawyer
–
1976 At My Time of Life
–
Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium
9 (UK)
Feels Good, Feels Right
–
Beautiful Memories
–
1977 Seasons
25 (UK)
The Greatest Hits of Bing Crosby (M.F. Productions 2 LP)
–
Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Sky (Biograph BLP-M-1)
–
1992 White Christmas
-
16 Most Requested Songs
-
1993 Bing: His Legendary Years 1931-1957 (4-CD box set)
–
1995 Christmas Through the Years
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1997 Bing's Gold Records
-
1998 Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas (Christmas collection)
–
1999 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bing Crosby
-
2006 The Definitive Collection
–
2011 Christmas (Christmas collection)
–
2017 The Bible Story of Christmas narrated by Bing Crosby (re-issued by WLP) Vinyl LP and CD
–
2019 Bing at Christmas
9 (UK)

Singles

Pre-Decca era

Year Single Chart positions
US[3][nb 1] US
R&B 		US
AC 		US Country UK
1927 "Muddy Water" (with Paul Whiteman) 11 - - - -
"Side by Side" (The Rhythm Boys with Paul Whiteman) 3 - - - -
"I'm Coming, Virginia" (The Rhythm Boys with Paul Whiteman) 6 - - - -
"My Blue Heaven" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 1 - - - -
"The Calinda" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 7 - - - -
1928 "Changes" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 4 - - - -
"Ol' Man River" (with Paul Whiteman) 1 - - - -
"Make Believe" (with Paul Whiteman) 7 - - - -
"Sunshine" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 6 - - - -
"Mississippi Mud" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 6 - - - -
"Mississippi Mud" (with Frankie Trumbauer) 18 - - - -
"From Monday On" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 14 - - - -
"You Took Advantage of Me" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 9 - - - -
"Louisiana" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 12 - - - -
"It Was the Dawn of Love" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 19 - - - -
"I'm on the Crest of a Wave" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 6 - - - -
"Out-O'-Town Gal" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 16 - - - -
1929 "Makin' Whoopee" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 8 - - - -
"Let's Do It" (with Dorsey Brothers) 9 - - - -
"Louise" (with Paul Whiteman) 6 - - - -
"Little Pal" (with Paul Whiteman) 9 - - - -
"Your Mother and Mine" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 16 - - - -
"Waiting at the End of the Road" (with Paul Whiteman) 12 - - - -
"I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 6 - - - -
"If I Had a Talking Picture of You" (with Paul Whiteman) 7 - - - -
"Great Day" (with Paul Whiteman) 1 - - - -
"Without a Song" (with Paul Whiteman) 6 - - - -
"A Bundle of Old Love Letters" (with Paul Whiteman) 10 - - - -
1930 "After You've Gone" (with Paul Whiteman) 14 - - - -
"I Like to Do Things for You" (with Paul Whiteman et al.) 19 - - - -
"You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (with Paul Whiteman) 3 - - - -
"Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" (with Paul Whiteman) 16 - - - -
"It Must Be True" (with Gus Arnheim) 4 - - - -
"Three Little Words" (with Duke Ellington et al.) 1 - - - -
"Them There Eyes" (with Gus Arnheim & The Rhythm Boys) 7 - - - -
1931 "The Little Things in Life" (with Gus Arnheim) 4 - - - -
"I Surrender Dear" (with Gus Arnheim) 3 - - - -
"One More Time" (with Gus Arnheim) 4 - - - -
"Just a Gigolo" 12 - - - -
"Out of Nowhere" 1 - - - -
"Ho Hum!" (with Gus Arnheim & Loyce Whiteman) 6 - - - -
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" 4 - - - -
"Just One More Chance" 1 - - - -
"Were You Sincere?" 12 - - - -
"I Found a Million Dollar Baby" 2 - - - -
"I'm Thru with Love" 3 - - - -
"At Your Command" 1 - - - -
"Many Happy Returns of the Day" 3 - - - -
"Stardust" 5 - - - -
"Dancing in the Dark" 3 - - - -
"I Apologize" 3 - - - -
"Sweet and Lovely" 9 - - - -
"Goodnight, Sweetheart" 5 - - - -
"A Faded Summer Love" 8 - - - -
"Gems from George White's Scandals"
(with Mills Brothers, The Boswell Sisters & Victor Young) 		3 - - - -
1932 "Dinah" (with Mills Brothers) 1 - - - -
"Can't We Talk It Over?" (with Helen Crawford) 10 - - - -
"Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)"
(Bing's Theme Song) 		4 - - - -
"Snuggled on Your Shoulder (Cuddled in Your Arms)" 11 - - - -
"Paradise" 7 - - - -
"Shine" (with Mills Brothers) 7 - - - -
"Lazy Day" 4 - - - -
"Sweet Georgia Brown" 2 - - - -
"Cabin in the Cotton" 11 - - - -
"Love Me Tonight" 4 - - - -
"Some of These Days" 16 - - - -
"Please" 1 - - - -
"Waltzing in a Dream" 6 - - - -
"Here Lies Love" 11 - - - -
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1 - - - -
1933 "Just an Echo in the Valley" 2 - - - -
"I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" 5 - - - -
"Street of Dreams" 13 - - - -
"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" 1 - - - -
"Young and Healthy" 2 - - - -
"You're Beautiful Tonight, My Dear" 12 - - - -
"I've Got the World on a String" 19 - - - -
"You've Got Me Crying Again" 12 - - - -
"Shadow Waltz" 1 - - - -
"I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" 9 - - - -
"Learn to Croon" 3 - - - -
"Down the Old Ox Road" 8 - - - -
"Blue Prelude" 10 - - - -
"My Love" 4 - - - -
"Thanks" 2 - - - -
"The Day You Came Along" 3 - - - -
"The Last Round-Up" 2 - - - -
"Home on the Range" 18 - - - -
"Beautiful Girl" 11 - - - -
"Temptation" 3 - - - -
"Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" 5 - - - -
1934 "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines" 8 - - - -
"Little Dutch Mill" 1 - - - -
"Good Night, Lovely Little Lady" 2 - - - -
"Once in a Blue Moon" 11 - - - -
"Love Thy Neighbor" 2 - - - -
"Ridin' Around in the Rain" 13 - - - -
"May I?" 4 - - - -
"She Reminds Me of You" 10 - - - -
"Love in Bloom" 1 - - - -
"Straight from the Shoulder" 16 - - - -
"Give Me a Heart to Sing To" 12 - - - -

Decca and beyond

Year Single Chart positions
US[5][6] US
R&B[7] 		US
AC[8] 		US Country UK[9]
1934 "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" 5 - - - -
"The Very Thought of You" 11 - - - -
"The Moon Was Yellow" 13 - - - -
"June in January" 1 - - - -
"Love Is Just Around the Corner" 8 - - - -
"With Every Breath I Take" 4 - - - -
"Maybe I'm Wrong Again" 14 - - - -
1935 "Soon" 1 - - - -
"Down by the River" 17 - - - -
"It's Easy to Remember" 1 - - - -
"I Wished on the Moon" 2 - - - -
"Without a Word of Warning" 5 - - - -
"I Wish I Were Aladdin" 7 - - - -
"From the Top of Your Head to the Tip of Your Toes" 10 - - - -
"Red Sails in the Sunset" 1 - - - -
"Silent Night" (gold record) 7 - - - -
"On Treasure Island" 8 - - - -
1936 "Would You?" 20 - - - -
"The Touch of Your Lips" 4 - - - -
"Robins and Roses" 2 - - - -
"It Ain't Necessarily So" 18 - - - -
"I'm an Old Cowhand" 2 - - - -
"I Can't Escape from You" 7 - - - -
"Empty Saddles" 8 - - - -
"Song of the Islands" 14 - - - -
"South Sea Island Magic" 3 - - - -
"Me and the Moon" 9 - - - -
"Pennies from Heaven" 1 - - - -
"Let's Call a Heart a Heart" 10 - - - -
"So Do I" 18 - - - -
1937 "One, Two, Button Your Shoe" 19 - - - -
"Sweet Leilani" (gold record) 1 - - - -
"Blue Hawaii" 5 - - - -
"Too Marvelous for Words" 1 - - - -
"What Will I Tell My Heart?" 5 - - - -
"Sweet Is the Word for You" 8 - - - -
"Never in a Million Years" 2 - - - -
"Moonlight and Shadows" 10 - - - -
"My Little Buckaroo" 19 - - - -
"Peckin'" (w/ Jimmy Dorsey) 9 - - - -
"The Moon Got in My Eyes" 1 - - - -
"(You Know It All) Smarty" 18 - - - -
"It's the Natural Thing to Do" 2 - - - -
"Remember Me?" 1 - - - -
"I Still Love to Kiss You Goodnight" 6 - - - -
"Can I Forget You?" 8 - - - -
"Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)"
(w/ Connee Boswell) 		1 - - - -
"Basin Street Blues" (w/ Connee Boswell) 12 - - - -
"The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)" 8 - - - -
"Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" 4 - - - -
1938 "When the Organ Played 'O, Promise Me'" 5 - - - -
"There's a Gold Mine in the Sky" (w/ Eddie Dunstedter) 6 - - - -
"On the Sentimental Side" 4 - - - -
"The Moon of Manakoora" 10 - - - -
"Let Me Whisper I Love You" 7 - - - -
"When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby" 3 - - - -
"Now It Can Be Told" 7 - - - -
"I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams" 1 - - - -
"Small Fry" (w/ Johnny Mercer) 3 - - - -
"Mr. Gallagher & Mr. Shean" (w/ Johnny Mercer) 7 - - - -
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" (w/ Connee Boswell) 1 - - - -
"Don't Let That Moon Get Away" 19 - - - -
"Mexicali Rose" 3 - - - -
"My Reverie" 3 - - - -
"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" 1 - - - -
1939 "You're a Sweet Little Headache" 3 - - - -
"I Have Eyes" 4 - - - -
"The Funny Old Hills" 5 - - - -
"Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn" (w/ The Dorsey Brothers) 14 - - - -
"It's a Lonely Trail" 17 - - - -
"The Lonesome Road" 12 - - - -
"I Cried for You" 13 - - - -
"Between a Kiss and a Sigh" 15 - - - -
"My Melancholy Baby" 14 - - - -
"Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" 12 - - - -
"East Side of Heaven" 6 - - - -
"Sing a Song of Sunbeams" 8 - - - -
"Deep Purple" 14 - - - -
"God Bless America" 17 - - - -
"That Sly Old Gentleman (from Featherbed Lane)" 10 - - - -
"Little Sir Echo" 3 - - - -
"And the Angels Sing" 10 - - - -
"Alla en el rancho grande" 6 - - - -
"Whistling in the Wildwood" 14 - - - -
"An Apple for the Teacher" (w/ Connee Boswell) 2 - - - -
"Go Fly a Kite" 10 - - - -
"A Man and His Dream" 4 - - - -
"Start the Day Right" (w/ Connee Boswell) 12 - - - -
"What's New?" 2 - - - -
"Ciribiribin (They're So in Love)" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 13 - - - -
"Yodelin' Jive" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 4 - - - -
"My Isle of Golden Dreams" 18 - - - -
1940 "Between 18th & 19th on Chestnut Street" (w/ Connee Boswell) 12 - - - -
"Sweet Potato Piper" 11 - - - -
"Just One More Chance" (re-recording) 16 - - - -
"I'm Too Romantic" (aka "Too Romantic") 3 - - - -
"The Singing Hills" 3 - - - -
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" 12 - - - -
"April Played the Fiddle" 10 - - - -
"I Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire" 13 - - - -
"Meet the Sun Half-Way" 15 - - - -
"Sierra Sue" 1 - - - -
"Mister Meadowlark" (w/ Johnny Mercer) 18 - - - -
"Trade Winds" 1 - - - -
"Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind" 8 - - - -
"That's for Me" 9 - - - -
"Only Forever" 1 - - - -
"When the Moon Comes Over Madison Square" 27 - - - -
"Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (re-recording) 27 - - - -
"You Made Me Love You" 25 - - - -
1941 "Please" (re-recording) 24 - - - -
"Along the Santa Fe Trail" 4 - - - -
"Lone Star Trail" 23 - - - -
"New San Antonio Rose" 7 - - - -
"It Makes No Difference Now" 23 - - - -
"Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?" 22 - - - -
"Dolores" 2 - - - -
"Paradise Isle" 23 - - - -
"You and I" 5 - - - -
"Brahms' Lullaby" 20 - - - -
"'Til Reveille" 6 - - - -
"Be Honest With Me" 19 - - - -
"You Are My Sunshine" 19 - - - -
"The Whistler's Mother-in-law" (w/ Muriel Lane) 9 - - - -
"The Waiter and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid" (w/ Mary Martin & Jack Teagarden) 23 - - - -
"Clementine" 20 - - - -
"Shepherd Serenade" 4 - - - -
"The Anniversary Waltz" 24 - - - -
1942 "Deep in the Heart of Texas" 3 - - - -
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You" 9 - - - -
"Sing Me a Song of the Islands" 22 - - - -
"Miss You" 9 - - - -
"The Lamplighter's Serenade" 23 - - - -
"When the White Azaleas Start Blooming" 21 - - - -
"Skylark" 14 - - - -
"The Bombardier Song" 19 - - - -
"Be Careful, It's My Heart" 2 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 1 1 3 - 5
"Moonlight Becomes You" 1 - - - -
1943 "Constantly" 13 - - - -
"Sunday, Monday, or Always" (gold record) 1 3 - - -
"If You Please" 5 - - - -
"Mary's a Grand Old Name" 20 - - - -
"People Will Say We're in Love" 2 - - - -
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" 4 - - - -
"Pistol Packin' Mama" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) (gold record) 2 3 - 1 -
"Vict'ry Polka" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 5 - - - -
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (gold record) 3 8 - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 6 - - - -
"Jingle Bells" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 19 - - - -
"Let's Start the New Year Right" 18 - - - -
1944 "San Fernando Valley" 1 - - - -
"Poinciana" 3 - - - -
"I Love You" 1 - - - -
"I'll Be Seeing You" 1 - - - -
"Swinging on a Star" (gold record) 1 - - - -
"Going My Way" 15 - - - -
"Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 2 - - - -
"Amor" 2 - - - -
"Long Ago (and Far Away)" 5 - - - -
"The Day After Forever" 15 - - - -
"Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 1 - - - -
"It Could Happen to You" 18 - - - -
"Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" (gold record) 4 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 5 - - - -
"Don't Fence Me In" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) (gold record) 1 9 - - -
1945 "Evelina" 9 - - - -
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 2 - - - -
"The Three Caballeros" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 8 - - - -
"Sleigh Ride in July" 14 - - - -
"Like Someone in Love" 15 - - - -
"Just a Prayer Away" 4 - - - -
"All of My Life" 12 - - - -
"Yah-ta-ta, Yah-ta-ta (Talk, Talk, Talk)" (w/ Judy Garland) 5 - - - -
"You Belong to My Heart" 3 - - - -
"Baia" 6 - - - -
"My Baby Said Yes" (w/ Louis Jordan) 14 - - - -
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" 3 - - - -
"If I Loved You" 8 - - - -
"Along the Navajo Trail" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 2 - - - -
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" (w/ Les Paul Trio) 1 - - - -
"The Road to Morocco" (w/ Bob Hope) 21 - - - -
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" (gold record) 1 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 1 - - - -
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" 8 - - - -
1946 "In the Land of Beginning Again" 18 - - - -
"Symphony" 3 - - - -
"Give Me the Simple Life" 16 - - - -
"The Bells of St. Mary's" 21 - - - -
"McNamara's Band" (gold record) 10 - - - -
"Day by Day" (w/ Mel Tormé & His Mel-Tones) 15 - - - -
"Sioux City Sue" 3 - - - -
"Personality" 9 - - - -
"They Say It's Wonderful" 12 - - - -
"South America, Take It Away" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) (gold record) 2 - - - -
"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 14 - - - -
"Night and Day" 21 - - - -
"You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" 12 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 1 - - - -
1947 "A Gal in Calico" 8 - - - -
"Easter Parade" 22 - - - -
"That's How Much I Love You" 17 - - - -
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" (w/ Al Jolson) (gold record) 20 - - - -
"Tallahassee" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 10 - - - -
"There's No Business Like Show Business" (w/ The Andrews Sisters & Dick Haymes) 25 - - - -
"Feudin' and Fightin'" 9 - - - -
"The Freedom Train" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 21 - - - -
"You Do" 8 - - - -
"How Soon (Will I Be Seeing You)" 6 - - - -
"The Whiffenpoof Song" (gold record) 7 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 3 - - - -
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 22 - - - -
"Silent Night" (new version) 22 - - - 8
1948 "Ballerina" 10 - - - -
"Now Is the Hour" (gold record) 1 - - - -
"You Don't Have to Know the Language" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 21 - - - -
"Pass That Peace Pipe" 21 - - - -
"But Beautiful" 20 - - - -
"Blue Shadows on the Trail" 23 - - - -
"A Fella with an Umbrella" 23 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 6 - - - -
"A Hundred and Sixty Acres" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 23 - - - -
1949 "Far Away Places" 2 - - - -
"Galway Bay" (gold record) 3 - - - -
"If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon" 27 - - - -
"Careless Hands" 12 - - - -
"Riders in the Sky" 14 - - - -
"Some Enchanted Evening" 3 - - - -
"Bali Ha'i" 12 - - - -
"Dear Hearts and Gentle People" (gold record) 2 - - - -
"Mule Train" 4 - - - -
"Way Back Home" 21 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 5 - - - -
1950 "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 24 - - - -
"Quicksilver" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 6 - - - -
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" 4 - - - -
"I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" 22 - - - -
"Play a Simple Melody" (w/ Gary Crosby) (gold record) 4 - - - -
"Sam's Song" (w/ Gary Crosby) 4 - - - -
"La Vie en rose" 13 - - - -
"I Cross My Fingers" 18 - - - -
"All My Love" 11 - - - -
"Beyond the Reef" 26 - - - -
"Harbor Lights" 8 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 13 - - - -
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 14 - - - -
"A Crosby Christmas" (w/ his sons) 22 - - - -
1951 "A Marshmallow World" 14 - - - -
"Sparrow in the Treetop" (w/ The Andrews Sisters) 8 - - - -
"When You and I Were Young, Maggie Blues" (w/ Gary Crosby) 8 - - - -
"Moonlight Bay" (w/ Gary Crosby) 14 - - - -
"Gone Fishin'" (w/ Louis Armstrong) 19 - - - -
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (w/ Jane Wyman) 11 - - - -
"Shanghai" 21 - - - -
"Domino" 15 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 13 - - - -
1952 "The Isle of Innisfree" - - - - 3
"Watermelon Weather" (w/ Peggy Lee) 28 - - - -
"Till the End of the World" 16 - - 10 -
"Zing a Little Zong" (w/ Jane Wyman) 18 - - - 10
"Silver Bells" (w/ Carol Richards) 20 - - - -
"Keep It a Secret" 28 - - - -
1953 "You Don't Know What Lonesome Is" 23 - - - -
"Open Up Your Heart" 22 - - - -
"Hush-a-bye" 24 - - - -
"White Christmas" (gold record) 21 - - - -
1954 "Changing Partners" 13 - - - 9
"Y'all Come" 20 - - - -
"Down by the Riverside" (w/ Gary Crosby) 28 - - - -
"Young at Heart" 24 - - - -
"Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" 27 - - - 11
"White Christmas" (gold record) 21 - - - -
1955 "Stranger in Paradise" - - - - 17
1956 "In a Little Spanish Town" (w/ Buddy Cole & his Trio) 49 - - - 22
"True Love" (w/ Grace Kelly) 3 - - - 4
"Well, Did You Evah!" (w/ Frank Sinatra) 92 - - - -
"Now You Has Jazz" (w/ Louis Armstrong) 88 - - - -
1957 "Around the World" 25 - - - 5
"How Lovely Is Christmas" 97 - - - -
1960 "Adeste Fideles" 45 - - - -
1968 "Step to the Rear" - - 29 - -
1975 "That's What Life Is All About" - - 35 - 41
1977 "White Christmas" - - - - 5
1982 "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" (w/ David Bowie) - - - - 3
1983 "True Love" (w/ Grace Kelly) - - - - 70
1985 "White Christmas" - - - - 69
1998 "White Christmas" - - - - 29
2018 "White Christmas" 34 - - - 61
2019 "White Christmas" - - - - 31

Holiday 100 chart entries

Since many radio stations in the US adopt a format change to Christmas music each December, many holiday hits have an annual spike in popularity during the last few weeks of the year and are retired once the season is over.[10] In December 2011, Billboard began a Holiday Songs chart with 50 positions that monitors the last five weeks of each year to "rank the top holiday hits of all eras using the same methodology as the Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay, and sales data",[11] and in 2013 the number of positions on the chart was doubled, resulting in the Holiday 100.[12] Many Crosby recordings have made appearances on the Holiday 100 and are noted below according to the holiday season in which they charted there.

Title Holiday season peak chart positions
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
"White Christmas" 11[13] 7[14] 7[15] 8[16] 5[17] 12[18] 10[19] 11[20]
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" 18[13] 18[21] 30[22] 25[23] 24[17] 22[24] 26[19] 27[25]
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" — — 79[26] 70[16] 38[17] 90[27] 67[28] 70[20]
"Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" (with David Bowie) — — 87[15] — — — — —
"Silver Bells" — — 95[15] — — — 63[29] —
"Hawaiian Christmas Song (Mele Kalikimaka)" — — — 61[16] 87[30] 74[18] 87[31] 73[25]
"Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful)" — — — — 21[32] — — —
"I Wish You a Merry Christmas" — — — — 49[32] 86[33] — —
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" — — — — — — 97[31] 28[34]
"The Little Drummer Boy" — — — — — — — 46[34]
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (with The Andrews Sisters) — — — — — — — 90[34]
"Winter Wonderland" — — — — — — — 98[34]

Notes

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn's methodology for creating pre-1940s chart placings has been criticised,[4] and they should not be taken as definitive.

References

  1. ^ Giddens, Gary (2001-01-28). MUSIC; Bing Crosby, The Unsung King of Song.
  2. ^ Gibbins, Gary "Bing Crosby: A Pocket Full of Dreams" published by Little, Brown
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Pop Memories: 1890-1954. Record Research.
  4. ^ "Joel Whitburn criticism: chart fabrication, misrepresentation of sources, cherry picking". Songbook. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Pop Memories: 1890-1954. Record Research.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006. Record Research.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research.
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Adult Songs: 1961-2006. Record Research.
  9. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums. HIT Entertainment.
  10. ^ Judkis, Maura (2015-12-22). "Jingle bell rock: Why lots of radio stations go all-Christmas in December". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  11. ^ "Andy Williams Hits New High, The Ronettes 'Ride' Back After 52 Years & More Hot 100 Chart Moves". billboard.com. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  12. ^ "Carey Brings Back 'Christmas'". Billboard. 2013-12-14. p. 115.
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  14. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of January 5, 2013". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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  20. ^ a b "Holiday 100: The week of December 8, 2018". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  21. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 8, 2012". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  22. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 28, 2013". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 13, 2014". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 10, 2016". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  25. ^ a b "Holiday 100: The week of December 22, 2018". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  26. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 14, 2013". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  27. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 17, 2016". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  28. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 16, 2017". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  29. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 30, 2017". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  30. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of January 9, 2016". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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  32. ^ a b "Holiday 100: The week of December 19, 2015". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  33. ^ "Holiday 100: The week of December 24, 2016". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  34. ^ a b c d "Holiday 100: The week of January 5, 2019". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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