List of Billboard number-one singles of 1943

This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1943 according to The Billboard.

The "National Best Selling Retail Records" chart was the first to poll retailers nationwide on record sales.

The new chart was billed as a "trade service feature," based on the "10 best selling records of the past week" at a selection of national retailers from New York to Los Angeles.

Shown is a list of songs that topped the National Best Selling Retail Records chart.

Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 2	"White Christmas"	Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra	[1]
January 9			[2]
January 16	"There Are Such Things"	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers	[3]
January 23			[4]
January 30			[5]
February 6			[6]
February 13	"I Had the Craziest Dream"	Harry James and His Orchestra with Helen Forrest	[7]
February 20			[8]
February 27	"There Are Such Things"	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers	[9]
March 6	"I've Heard That Song Before"	Harry James and His Orchestra with Helen Forrest	[10]
March 13			[11]
March 20			[12]
March 27			[13]
April 3			[14]
April 10			[15]
April 17			[16]
April 24			[17]
May 1			[18]
May 8			[19]
May 15			[20]
May 22			[21]
May 29	"That Old Black Magic"	Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with Skip Nelson and the Modernaires	[22]
June 5	"I've Heard That Song Before"	Harry James and His Orchestra with Helen Forrest	[23]
June 12	"Taking a Chance on Love"	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with Helen Forrest	[24]
June 19			[25]
June 26			[26]
July 3	"Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer"	The Song Spinners	[27]
July 10			[28]
July 17			[29]
July 24	"You'll Never Know"	Dick Haymes and the Song Spinners	[30]
July 31			[31]
August 7			[32]
August 14			[33]
August 21	"In the Blue of Evening"	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra	[34]
August 28			[35]
September 4			[36]
September 11	"Sunday, Monday or Always"	Bing Crosby and the Ken Darby Singers	[37]
September 18			[38]
September 25			[39]
October 2			[40]
October 9			[41]
October 16			[42]
October 23			[43]
October 30	"Pistol Packin' Mama"	Al Dexter and His Troopers with Al Dexter	[44]
November 6	"Paper Doll"	The Mills Brothers	[45]
November 13			[46]
November 20			[47]
November 27			[48]
December 4			[49]
December 11			[50]
December 18			[51]
December 25			[52]

See also

• 1943 in music