Billboard Most-Played Race Records of 1946 is a year-end chart compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top race records based on the number of times the record was played on the nation's juke boxes. Billboard assigned point totals to each record based on its juke box plays, much like with its weekly Most-Played Juke Box Race Records chart.
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" from Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra was the year's No. 1 record with 120 points, ranking more than 40 points higher than any other record.
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five led all other artists with 11 records on the year-end chart, including "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (No. 2) and "Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)" with Ella Fitzgerald (No. 3). Billboard ranked Jordan's band as the year's top race record band with 385 points, more than triple the total of the second place band (Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra with 128 points).
Decca Records led all other labels with 17 records, including the top four, on the year-end chart. Capitol Records ranked second with five records followed by RCA Victor (four) and Exclusive (three).
Rank Title Artist(s) Label Points1 "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra Decca 1202 "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 793 "Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)" Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 634 "The Gypsy" The Ink Spots Decca 535 "R. M. Blues" Roy Milton & His Solid Senders Juke Box, Specialty 506 "Buzz Me" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 48 7 "Drifting Blues" Johnny Moore's Three Blazers Philo 478 "Salt Pork, West Virginia" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 449 "I Know" Andy Kirk & His Orchestra with The Jubalaires Decca 4110 "Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time)" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 3411 "Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 3212 "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" The King Cole Trio Capitol 2713 "Beware" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 2614 "Reconversion Blues" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 2015 "Don't Be a Baby, Baby" The Mills Brothers Decca 1815 "That Chick's Too Young to Fry" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 1816 "I've Got a Right to Cry" Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Exclusive 16 16 "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 1616 "I Know Who Threw the Whiskey (In the Well)" Bull Moose Jackson & His Orchestra Queen 1617 "I've Got a Right to Cry" Erskine Hawkins RCA Victor 1517 "Tanya" Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Exclusive 1518 "Sunny Road" Roosevelt Sykes with his Original Honeydrippers RCA Victor 12 19 "The Christmas Song" The King Cole Trio Capitol 920 "Beulah's Boogie" Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra Decca 820 "Shorty's Got to Go" Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra Decca 820 "Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got" Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends Capitol 820 "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" The King Cole Trio Capitol 821 "The Honeydripper" Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Exclusive 721 "Be-Baba-Leba" Helen Humes Philo 722 "Voo-It! Voo-It!" The Blues Woman Juke Box 622 "After Hours" Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra RCA Victor 623 "Playful Baby" Wynonie Harris with Johnnie Alston & His All Stars Apollo 523 "The Very Thought of You" Luis Russell & His Orchestra Apollo 523 "So Glad You're Mine" Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup RCA Victor 523 "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca 524 "Buzz Me" Ella Mae Morse with Billy May's Orchestra Capitol 424 "Prisoner of Love" Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra National 4
See also Billboard year-end top pop records of 1946 Billboard Most-Played Folk Records of 1946 1946 in music
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