| | | Artist | Points
 | Songs |
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 | 1. | Bing Crosby | 3428 | 1931 • A Faded Summer Love • 174 pts 1931 • At Your Command • 370 pts 1931 • Dancing in the Dark • 269 pts 1931 • Good Night, Sweetheart • 230 pts 1931 • I Apologize • 269 pts 1931 • I Found a Million-Dollar Baby • 318 pts 1931 • I'm Through with Love • 269 pts 1931 • Just One More Chance • 370 pts 1931 • Many Happy Returns of the Day • 269 pts 1931 • Out of Nowhere • 370 pts 1931 • Star Dust • 230 pts 1931 • Sweet and Lovely • 161 pts 1931 • Were You Sincere? • 130 pts |
| 2. | Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | 2940 | 1931 • (There Ought to Be a) Moonlight Saving Time • 370 pts 1931 • Begging for Love • 253 pts 1931 • By the River St. Marie • 370 pts 1931 • Goodnight, Sweetheart • 369 pts 1931 • Heartaches • 130 pts 1931 • Now That You're Gone • 319 pts 1931 • Running Between the Rain-Drops • 100 pts 1931 • Sweet and Lovely • 319 pts 1931 • Whistling in the Dark • 269 pts 1931 • Without That Gal! • 269 pts 1931 • You Try Somebody Else (We'll Be Back Together Again) • 174 pts |
 | 3. | Ted Lewis & His Band | 1994 | 1931 • An Ev'ning in Caroline • 319 pts 1931 • At Last I'm Happy • 130 pts 1931 • Dallas Blues • 191 pts 1931 • Egyptian Ella • 161 pts 1931 • Ho Hum! • 210 pts 1931 • I'm All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart • 190 pts 1931 • Just a Gigolo • 369 pts 1931 • Some Day, Sweetheart • 106 pts 04/1931 • Somebody Loves You • 319 pts |
 | 4. | Wayne King and His Orchestra | 1805 | 1931 • Dream a Little Dream of Me • 371 pts 1931 • Good Night, Sweetheart • 373 pts 1931 • Goofus • 147 pts 1931 • Guilty • 136 pts 1931 • Hello, Beautiful • 106 pts 1931 • I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) • 318 pts 1931 • Star Dust • 100 pts 1931 • Wabash Moon • 253 pts |
 | 5. | Cab Calloway | 1517 | 1931 • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea • 113 pts 1931 • Kickin' the Gong Around • 253 pts 1931 • Minnie the Moocher • 369 pts 1931 • Nobody's Sweetheart • 123 pts 1931 • Six or Seven Times • 116 pts 1931 • St. James Infirmary • 269 pts 1931 • Tickeration • 174 pts 1931 • You Rascal, You • 100 pts |
 | 6. | Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees | 1378 | 1931 • As Time Goes By • 113 pts 1931 • Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries • 269 pts 1931 • My Song • 147 pts 1931 • Tears • 130 pts 1931 • The Thrill is Gone • 147 pts 1931 • When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba • 319 pts 1931 • Would You Like to Take a Walk? • 253 pts |
| 7. | Ruth Etting | 1339 | 1931 • Good Night, Sweetheart • 100 pts 1931 • Guilty • 253 pts 1931 • I'm Good for Nothing but Love • 190 pts 1931 • Love is Like That • 230 pts 1931 • Now That You're Gone • 123 pts 1931 • Overnight • 96 pts 1931 • Reaching for the Moon • 210 pts 1931 • Were You Sincere? • 136 pts |
 | 8. | Ben Bernie & His Orchestra | 1118 | 1931 • Just a Gigolo • 269 pts 1931 • Me • 136 pts 1931 • Ninety-Nine out of a Hundred (Wanna Be Loved) • 123 pts 1931 • Sweet and Lovely • 130 pts 1931 • The King's Horses (And the King's Men) • 191 pts 1931 • To Whom It May Concern • 269 pts |
 | 9. | Boswell Sisters | 1046 | 1931 • (With You On My Mind I Find) I Can't Write the Words • 86 pts 1931 • I Found a Million-Dollar Baby • 269 pts 1931 • It's the Girl • 161 pts 1931 • Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On • 190 pts 1931 • When I Take My Sugar to Tea • 210 pts 12/1931 • An Evening in Caroline • 130 pts |
 | 10. | Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians | 978 | 1931 • Dancing in the Dark • 270 pts 1931 • Elizabeth • 93 pts 1931 • High and Low • 130 pts 1931 • I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store) • 369 pts 1931 • Love for Sale • 116 pts |
 | 11. | Russ Columbo | 838 | 1931 • Good Night, Sweetheart • 269 pts 1931 • Guilty • 123 pts 1931 • Sweet and Lovely • 93 pts 1931 • Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) • 123 pts 1931 • You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) • 230 pts |
 | 12. | Leo Reisman and His Orchestra | 836 | 1931 • Just a Gigolo • 113 pts 1931 • Out of Nowhere • 210 pts 1931 • Time on My Hands • 210 pts 1931 • When the Moon Comes over the Mountain • 130 pts 1931 • Without That Gal! • 174 pts |
 | 13. | Bert Lown and His Orchestra | 822 | 1931 • I Wanna Sing About You • 269 pts 1931 • Now You're in My Arms • 269 pts 1931 • Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone • 148 pts 1931 • You're the One I Care For • 136 pts |
 | 14. | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | 693 | 1931 • A Faded Summer Love • 253 pts 1931 • Choo Choo • 106 pts 1931 • Cuban Love Song • 123 pts 1931 • When It's Sleepy Time Down South • 211 pts |
 | 15. | Red Nichols & His Five Pennies | 660 | 1931 • Blue Again • 148 pts 1931 • Corrine Corrina • 96 pts 1931 • Fan It • 86 pts 1931 • The Peanut Vendor • 230 pts 1931 • You Rascal, You • 100 pts |
 | 16. | Ethel Waters | 653 | 1931 • I Got Rhythm • 100 pts 1931 • River, Stay 'Way from My Door • 96 pts 1931 • Shine On, Harvest Moon • 161 pts 1931 • Three Little Words • 174 pts 1931 • You Can't Stop Me from Loving You • 123 pts |
 | 17. | The Mills Brothers | 624 | 1931 • Tiger Rag • 371 pts 11/1931 • Nobody's Sweetheart • 253 pts |
 | 18. | Kate Smith | 612 | 1931 • I Don't Know Why • 113 pts 1931 • That's Why Darkies Were Born • 130 pts 1931 • When the Moon Comes over the Mountain • 369 pts |
 | 19. | Abe Lyman and His Californians | 610 | 1931 • Give Me Your Affection, Honey • 147 pts 1931 • In a Cafe on the Road to Calais • 123 pts 1931 • It Looks Like Love • 130 pts 1931 • Just One More Chance • 210 pts |
| 20. | Jacques Renard and His Orchestra | 599 | 1931 • As Time Goes By • 123 pts 1931 • Come to Me • 106 pts 1931 • Cuban Love Song • 190 pts 1931 • Dancing in the Dark • 86 pts 1931 • Who Am I? • 93 pts |
 | 21. | Nick Lucas | 594 | 1931 • Lady, Play Your Mandolin • 230 pts 1931 • Walkin' My Baby Back Home • 174 pts 1931 • When the Moon Comes over the Mountain • 190 pts |
 | 22. | Smith Ballew & His Orchestra | 553 | 1931 • Say a Little Prayer for Me • 113 pts 1931 • Time on My Hands (You in My Arms) • 210 pts 1931 • What Is It? • 100 pts 1931 • You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) • 130 pts |
 | 23. | Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra | 546 | 1931 • Sweet and Lovely • 372 pts 1931 • Why Shouldn't I? • 174 pts |
 | 24. | Gene Austin | 503 | 1931 • Lies • 86 pts 1931 • Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone • 269 pts 1931 • When Your Lover Has Gone • 147 pts |
 | 25. | Libby Holman | 346 | 1931 • I'm One of God's Children • 116 pts 1931 • Love for Sale • 230 pts |
 | 26. | Louis Armstrong | 343 | 1931 • I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You • 123 pts 1931 • Peanut Vendor • 113 pts 1931 • Star Dust • 106 pts |
| 27. | High Hatters | 323 | 1931 • Come to Me • 113 pts 1931 • There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time • 210 pts |
 | 28. | Clyde McCoy & His Orchestra | 320 | 1931 • Sugar Blues • 320 pts |
| 29. | Peter van Steeden & His Orchestra | 319 | 12/1931 • Home • 319 pts |
| 30. | Hal Kemp and His Orchestra | 319 | 1931 • (There Ought to Be a) Moonlight Saving Time • 319 pts |
| 31. | Arden-Ohman Orchestra | 295 | 1931 • Ooh! That Kiss • 147 pts 1931 • You're My Everything • 148 pts |
 | 32. | Ted Weems and His Orchestra | 290 | 1931 • I Love to Hear a Military Band • 116 pts 1931 • Walkin' My Baby Back Home • 174 pts |
| 33. | Bing Crosby, the Boswell Sisters and the Mills Brothers | 270 | 1931 • Gems from George White's Scandals • 270 pts |
 | 34. | Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra | 257 | 1931 • On the Beach with You • 96 pts 1931 • Truly (I Love You) • 160 pts |
| 35. | Frank Luther & Carson Robison | 253 | 1931 • When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver • 253 pts |
 | 36. | Joe Venuti & His Orchestra | 253 | 1931 • Little Girl • 253 pts |
 | 37. | Ray Noble and His Orchestra | 231 | 1931 • Lady of Spain • 231 pts |
| 38. | The Charleston Chasers | 230 | 1931 • Basin Street Blues • 117 pts 1931 • Walkin' My Baby Back Home • 113 pts |
 | 39. | The California Ramblers | 230 | 1931 • The Peanut Vendor • 230 pts |
| 40. | Jack Denny & His Orchestra | 230 | 1931 • Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) • 230 pts |
 | 41. | Maurice Chevalier | 226 | 1931 • Mama Inez • 96 pts 1931 • My Ideal • 130 pts |
| 42. | Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra | 213 | 1931 • Casa Loma Stomp • 113 pts 1931 • Do the New York • 100 pts |
| 43. | Ted Black & His Orchestra | 210 | 1931 • Love Letters in the Sand • 210 pts |
 | 44. | Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | 209 | 1931 • I Surrender, Dear • 96 pts 1931 • Imagine • 113 pts |
 | 45. | Henry Busse & His Orchestra | 190 | 1931 • I'm Through with Love • 190 pts |
| 46. | Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys | 174 | 1931 • I'm an Unemployed Sweetheart (Looking for Somebody to Love) • 174 pts |
 | 47. | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | 174 | 1931 • Lonesome Lover • 174 pts |
 | 48. | Benny Krueger and His Orchestra | 174 | 1931 • I Don't Know Why • 174 pts |
| 49. | The Foursome | 161 | 1931 • Bidin' My Time • 161 pts |
| 50. | Frank Luther | 161 | 1931 • I'm Alone Because I Love You • 161 pts |