Editing 1949 in music (section)

==US No. 1 hit singles==
These singles reached the top of the US charts in 1949.

{| class="wikitable"
!First week!!Number of weeks!!Title!!Artist
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|January 8, 1949||align="center"|1||"[[All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth]]"||[[Spike Jones]]
|-
|January 15, 1949||align="center"|1||"[[Buttons and Bows]]"||[[Dinah Shore]]
|-
|January 22, 1949||align="center"|7||"[[A Little Bird Told Me]]"||[[Evelyn Knight (singer)|Evelyn Knight]]
|-
|March 12, 1949||align="center"|2||"[[Cruising Down the River]]"||[[Blue Barron]]
|-
|March 26, 1949||align="center"|7||"[[Cruising Down the River]]"||[[Russ Morgan]]
|-
|May 14, 1949||align="center"|11||"[[(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend]]"||[[Vaughn Monroe]]
|-
|July 30, 1949||align="center"|5||"[[Some Enchanted Evening]]"||[[Perry Como]]
|-
|September 3, 1949||align="center"|4||"[[You're Breaking My Heart]]"||[[Vic Damone]]
|-
|October 1, 1949||align="center"|8||"[[That Lucky Old Sun]]"||[[Frankie Laine]]
|-
|November 26, 1949||align="center"|6||"[[Mule Train]]"||[[Frankie Laine]]
|}