Top Artists of 1929 - Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

US & UK hit charts

1928 <-

1929

-> 1930

	Artist	Points	Songs
1.	Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees	3450	1929 • Baby ... Oh Where Can You Be? • 109 pts 1929 • Coquette • 151 pts 1929 • Deep Night • 327 pts 1929 • Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho! • 140 pts 1929 • Honey • 383 pts 1929 • I'm Just a Vagabond Lover • 236 pts 1929 • If I Had You • 195 pts 1929 • Lonely Troubador • 327 pts 1929 • Lover, Come Back to Me • 165 pts 1929 • Marie • 327 pts 1929 • My Time Is Your Time • 178 pts 1929 • Pretending • 151 pts 1929 • S'posin' • 195 pts 1929 • Sweetheart of All My Dreams • 236 pts 1929 • Weary River • 327 pts
2.	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	3398	1929 • (I'm a Dreamer) Aren't We All? • 216 pts 1929 • Blue Hawaii • 133 pts 1929 • Button Up Your Overcoat • 236 pts 1929 • China Boy • 126 pts 1929 • Concerto in F, Parts 1 & 2 • 151 pts 1929 • Great Day • 379 pts 1929 • If I Had a Talking Picture of You • 196 pts 1929 • Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) • 236 pts 1929 • Little Pal • 165 pts 1929 • Louise • 216 pts 1929 • Love Me • 236 pts 1929 • Lover, Come Back to Me • 277 pts 1929 • Makin' Whoopee • 178 pts 1929 • My Lucky Star • 260 pts 1929 • Waiting at the End of the Road • 133 pts 1929 • When My Dreams Come True • 152 pts 1929 • Your Mother and Mine • 109 pts
3.	Gene Austin	2277	1929 • A Garden in the Rain • 116 pts 1929 • Ain't Misbehavin' • 165 pts 1929 • Carolina Moon • 383 pts 1929 • Dream Mother • 133 pts 1929 • I Can't Give You Anything but Love • 133 pts 1929 • I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling • 151 pts 1929 • Little Pal • 195 pts 1929 • She's Funny That Way • 276 pts 1929 • Sonny Boy • 133 pts 1929 • Weary River • 236 pts 1929 • Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine • 178 pts
4.	Ruth Etting	1982	1929 • Ain't Misbehavin' • 109 pts 1929 • Button Up Your Overcoat • 116 pts 1929 • Deep Night • 102 pts 1929 • Glad Rag Doll • 102 pts 1929 • I'll Get By, As Long as I Have You • 277 pts 1929 • I'm Bringing a Red, Red Rose • 116 pts 1929 • Love Me or Leave Me • 327 pts 1929 • Mean to Me • 277 pts 1929 • The Right Kind of Man • 109 pts 1929 • What Wouldn't I Do for That Man • 165 pts 1929 • You're the Cream in My Coffee • 116 pts 12/1929 • More Than You Know • 165 pts
5.	Ted Lewis & His Band	1836	1929 • Farewell Blues • 327 pts 1929 • Glad Rag Doll • 151 pts 1929 • I Love You (My Love Song) • 276 pts 1929 • I'm Walking Around in a Dream • 126 pts 1929 • I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues • 151 pts 1929 • Lady Luck • 276 pts 1929 • Lonely Troubador • 260 pts 1929 • She's Funny That Way • 116 pts 1929 • Through! (How Can You Say We're Through?) • 151 pts
6.	Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra	1826	1929 • Am I Blue? • 133 pts 1929 • Broadway Melody • 126 pts 1929 • Love Me • 260 pts 1929 • Marie • 165 pts 1929 • One Kiss • 216 pts 1929 • Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise • 236 pts 1929 • Some Sweet Day • 116 pts 1929 • The Lonesome Road • 151 pts 1929 • When Summer is Gone • 96 pts 1929 • You Were Meant for Me • 328 pts
7.	Leo Reisman and His Orchestra	1589	1929 • A Love Tale of Alsace-Lorraine • 126 pts 1929 • Ain't Misbehavin' • 327 pts 1929 • I Kiss Your Hand, Madame • 126 pts 1929 • Look What You've Done to Me • 116 pts 1929 • My Sweeter Than Sweet • 236 pts 1929 • The Wedding of the Painted Doll • 380 pts 1929 • With a Song in My Heart • 277 pts
8.	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	1268	1929 • Button Up Your Overcoat • 140 pts 1929 • How About Me? • 119 pts 1929 • I Used to Love Her in the Moonlight • 99 pts 1929 • I'll Always Be in Love with You • 277 pts 1929 • Jericho • 133 pts 1929 • My Lucky Star • 140 pts 1929 • My Sin • 195 pts 1929 • The Song I Love • 165 pts
9.	Al Jolson	1231	1929 • I'm in Seventh Heaven • 327 pts 1929 • LIza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) • 165 pts 1929 • Little Pal • 381 pts 1929 • Used to You • 99 pts 1929 • Why Can't You? • 260 pts
10.	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	1132	1929 • (You Made Me Love You) Why Did You? • 99 pts 1929 • College Medley Fox Trot (The Big Ten) • 216 pts 1929 • I Get the Blues When it Rains • 178 pts 1929 • Singin' in the Bathtub • 151 pts 1929 • Where the Shy Little Violets Grow • 260 pts 11/1929 • A Little Kiss Each Morning (A Little Kiss Each Night) • 140 pts
11.	Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra	1128	1929 • If I Had a Talking Picture of You • 165 pts 1929 • Look What You've Done to Me • 103 pts 1929 • Singin' in the Rain • 260 pts 1929 • Sunny Side Up • 165 pts 1929 • The Wedding of the Painted Doll • 151 pts 1929 • Turn On the Heat • 195 pts
12.	Nick Lucas	986	1929 • I'll Get By • 133 pts 1929 • My Tonia • 140 pts 1929 • Painting the Clouds with Sunshine • 328 pts 1929 • Tip Toe Through the Tulips • 385 pts
13.	Helen Kane	796	1929 • Button Up Your Overcoat • 277 pts 1929 • Do Something • 133 pts 1929 • Don't Be Like That • 109 pts 1929 • I Want to Be Bad • 99 pts 1929 • Me and the Man in the Moon • 178 pts
14.	Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra	708	1929 • Avalon Town • 216 pts 1929 • Singin in the Rain • 165 pts 1929 • Sleepy Valley • 327 pts
15.	Cliff Edwards	690	1929 • Just You, Just Me • 126 pts 1929 • Me and the Man in the Moon • 96 pts 1929 • Singin' in the Rain • 380 pts
16.	Ethel Waters	584	1929 • Am I Blue? • 380 pts 1929 • True Blue Lou • 116 pts
17.	Arden-Ohman Orchestra	496	1929 • How am I to Know? • 165 pts 1929 • Lover, Come Back to Me • 216 pts 1929 • Marianne • 116 pts
18.	Libby Holman	496	1929 • Am I Blue? • 260 pts 1929 • Moanin' Low • 236 pts
19.	Bob Haring & His Orchestra	476	1929 • Pagan Love Song • 380 pts
20.	Ted Weems and His Orchestra	461	1929 • Me and the Man in the Moon • 133 pts 1929 • Piccolo Pete • 328 pts
21.	Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra	452	1929 • Painting the Clouds with Sunshine • 216 pts 1929 • Tip Toe Through the Tulips • 236 pts
22.	Eddie Cantor	443	1929 • I Faw Down and Go Boom • 116 pts 1929 • Makin' Whoopee • 327 pts
23.	Maurice Chevalier	442	1929 • Louise • 277 pts 1929 • Wait Till You See Ma Cherie • 165 pts
24.	Louis Armstrong	427	1929 • Ain't Misbehavin' • 195 pts 1929 • St. James Infirmary • 116 pts 1929 • When You're Smiling • 116 pts
25.	Johnny Hamp & His Orchestra	388	1929 • Sunny Side Up • 152 pts 11/1929 • If I Had a Talking Picture of You • 236 pts
26.	Annette Hanshaw	387	1929 • Am I Blue? • 140 pts 1929 • Big City Blues • 151 pts 1929 • In a Great Big Way • 96 pts
27.	Roy Ingraham & His Orchestra	379	12/1929 • Chant of the Jungle • 379 pts
28.	George Olsen and His Orchestra	379	1929 • A Precious Little Thing Called Love • 379 pts
29.	Irving Aaronson & His Commanders	332	1929 • Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love • 236 pts
30.	Charles King	330	1929 • Broadway Melody • 151 pts 1929 • The Wedding of the Painted Doll • 178 pts
31.	The Victor Symphony Orchestra	328	1929 • An American in Paris • 195 pts 1929 • Patriotic March Medley • 133 pts
32.	Abe Lyman and His Californians	298	1929 • Dream Train • 120 pts 1929 • Sweethearts on Parade • 178 pts
33.	Ford & Glenn	274	1929 • I Get the Blues When it Rains • 109 pts 1929 • The Utah Trail • 165 pts
34.	The Carter Family	271	1929 • I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes • 151 pts 1929 • Little Darling Pal of Mine • 119 pts
35.	The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	267	1929 • Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) • 165 pts 1929 • Sally of My Dreams • 102 pts
36.	James Melton	239	1929 • Sleepy Valley • 140 pts 1929 • With a Song in My Heart • 99 pts
37.	The Columbians	236	1929 • Pagan Love Song • 236 pts
38.	The Coon-Sanders Orchestra	236	1929 • I Gotta Great Big Date with a Little Bitta Girl • 126 pts 1929 • Little Orphan Annie • 109 pts
39.	The Ipana Troubadors	222	1929 • A Precious Little Thing Called Love • 133 pts
40.	Franklyn Baur	212	1929 • Marie • 116 pts 1929 • Where Is the Song of Songs for Me? • 96 pts
41.	Aileen Stanley	208	1929 • I'll Get By, As Long as I Have You • 99 pts 1929 • I'll Never Ask for More • 109 pts
42.	Johnny Marvin & Ed Smalle	198	1929 • Precious Little Thing Called Love • 109 pts
43.	Vernon Dalhart	195	1929 • Farm Relief Song • 195 pts
44.	Belle Baker	184	1929 • My Sin • 96 pts
45.	George Jessel	179	1929 • My Mother's Eyes • 179 pts
46.	Morton Downey	165	1929 • I'll Always Be in Love with You • 165 pts
47.	Johnny Marvin	140	1929 • Tip Toe Through the Tulips • 140 pts
48.	Helen Morgan	140	1929 • Mean to Me • 140 pts
49.	Jack Denny & His Orchestra	133	1929 • Congratulations • 133 pts
50.	Smith Ballew & His Orchestra	133	1929 • I Kiss Your Hand, Madame • 133 pts