This page lists the song chart entries of Billie Holiday. The songs are listed with the most widely successful first.
# |
Artist |
Song Title |
Year |
Chart Entries |
1 |
Billie Holiday |
Strange Fruit |
1939 |
Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978 (1939), Library of Congress artifact added 2002 (1939), nuTsie 7 of 1930s, US Billboard 16 - 1939 (2 weeks), Music Imprint 18 of 1940s, Scrobulate 25 of jazz, Europe 92 of the 1930s (1939), Acclaimed 180 (1939), RIAA 273, WXPN 717, Visconti song of 1939, RYM 2 of 1939, Guardian Jazz 12 |
2 |
Billie Holiday |
God Bless the Child |
1941 |
Grammy Hall of Fame in 1976 (1941), DDD 1 of 1941, US invalid BB 3 of 1941, POP 3 of 1941, nuTsie 3 of 1940s, Your Hit Parade 17 of 1941, US Billboard 25 - 1941 (1 week), RIAA 58, Scrobulate 89 of jazz, Acclaimed 341 (1941), WXPN 814, Visconti song of 1941, RYM 5 of 1941, Song of 1941 |
3 |
Billie Holiday |
Summertime |
1936 |
Europe 1 of the 1930s (1936), Jazz Standard 3, US Billboard 12 - 1936 (2 weeks), nuTsie 70 of 1930s, Scrobulate 84 of jazz, RYM 2 of 1936 |
4 |
Billie Holiday |
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) |
1945 |
Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989 (1945), Jazz Standard 7, DDD 12 of 1945, US Billboard 16 - May 1945 (1 week), nuTsie 26 of 1940s, WXPN 674, Acclaimed 2033 (1945), RYM 2 of 1945 |
5 |
Billie Holiday |
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm |
1937 |
US Billboard 4 - 1937 (10 weeks), US invalid BB 6 of 1937, POP 6 of 1937, nuTsie 55 of 1930s, RYM 22 of 1937 |
6 |
Billie Holiday |
Carelessly |
1937 |
US Billboard 1 - 1937 (12 weeks), nuTsie 86 of 1930s, Brazil 92 of 1938 |
7 |
Billie Holiday |
My Man |
1938 |
Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018 (1937), US Billboard 14 - 1938 (2 weeks), RYM 14 of 1949 |
8 |
Billie Holiday |
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) |
1936 |
US Billboard 5 - 1936 (5 weeks), nuTsie 51 of 1930s, Scrobulate 65 of hi fidelity, Song of 1936 |
9 |
Billie Holiday |
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart |
1938 |
US Billboard 2 - 1938 (9 weeks), Your Hit Parade 14 of 1938 |
10 |
Billie Holiday |
Crazy, He Calls Me |
1949 |
Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010 (1949), RYM 40 of 1949 |
11 |
Billie Holiday |
A Fine Romance |
1936 |
US Billboard 9 - 1936 (3 weeks), Scrobulate 59 of vocal, Song of 1936 |
12 |
Billie Holiday |
No Regrets |
1936 |
US Billboard 9 - 1936 (5 weeks), Scrobulate 68 of female vocalist, RYM 16 of 1936 |
13 |
Billie Holiday |
Embraceble You |
1944 |
Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005 (1944) |
14 |
Billie Holiday |
Night & Day |
1940 |
DDD 24 of 1940, Scrobulate 59 of jazz, Song of 1940 |
15 |
Billie Holiday |
Gloomy Sunday |
1941 |
DDD 16 of 1941, Visconti song of 1941, RYM 11 of 1941 |
16 |
Billie Holiday |
What a Little Moonlight Can Do |
1935 |
US Billboard 12 - 1935 (4 weeks), nuTsie 60 of 1930s |
17 |
Billie Holiday |
Nice Work If You Can Get It |
1937 |
US Billboard 20 - 1937 (1 week), Jazz Standard 158 |
18 |
Billie Holiday |
Body & Soul |
1940 |
DDD 16 of 1940, Scrobulate 86 of jazz |
19 |
Billie Holiday |
They Can't Take That Away From Me |
1937 |
US Billboard 12 - 1937 (4 weeks), RYM 24 of 1937, Song of 1937 |
20 |
Billie Holiday |
The Way You Look Tonight |
1936 |
US Billboard 3 - 1936 (5 weeks) |
21 |
Billie Holiday |
Pennies From Heaven |
1937 |
US Billboard 3 - 1937 (6 weeks) |
22 |
Billie Holiday |
A Sailboat In The Moonlight |
1937 |
US Billboard 10 - 1937 (3 weeks), RYM 35 of 1937 |
23 |
Billie Holiday |
Me, Myself & I |
1937 |
US Billboard 11 - 1937 (3 weeks), RYM 18 of 1937 |
24 |
Billie Holiday |
If You Were Mine |
1935 |
US Billboard 12 - 1935 (3 weeks), Song of 1935 |
25 |
Billie Holiday |
Easy Living |
1937 |
US Billboard 15 - 1937 (2 weeks), RYM 73 of 1947 |
26 |
Billie Holiday |
Who Loves You |
1936 |
US Billboard 4 - 1936 (6 weeks) |
27 |
Billie Holiday |
The Very Thought of You |
1934 |
Jazz Standard 107, Song of 1938 |
28 |
Billie Holiday |
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dear) |
1936 |
US Billboard 5 - 1936 (4 weeks) |
29 |
Billie Holiday |
Them There Eyes |
1939 |
Scrobulate 90 of jazz, RYM 17 of 1939 |
30 |
Billie Holiday |
Some Other Spring |
1939 |
Jazz Standard 631, RYM 17 of 1939 |
31 |
Billie Holiday |
The Man I Love |
1940 |
DDD 42 of 1940, Song of 1940 |
32 |
Billie Holiday |
Riffin' the Scotch |
1934 |
US Billboard 6 - 1934 (5 weeks) |
33 |
Billie Holiday |
Twenty-Four Hours A Day |
1935 |
US Billboard 6 - 1935 (7 weeks) |
34 |
Billie Holiday |
Solitude |
1941 |
DDD 29 of 1941, RYM 5 of 1941 |
35 |
Billie Holiday |
All of Me |
1941 |
DDD 22 of 1941, Guardian Jazz 15 |
36 |
Billie Holiday |
I'm in a Low Down Groove |
1941 |
DDD 68 of 1941, RYM 11 of 1941 |
37 |
Billie Holiday |
Mean to Me |
1937 |
US Billboard 7 - 1937 (4 weeks) |
38 |
Billie Holiday |
I Cover the Waterfront |
1944 |
DDD 55 of 1945, RYM 17 of 1944 |
39 |
Billie Holiday |
The Mood That I'm In |
1937 |
US Billboard 8 - 1937 (3 weeks) |
40 |
Billie Holiday |
This Year's Kisses |
1937 |
US Billboard 8 - 1937 (3 weeks) |
41 |
Billie Holiday |
Good Morning Heartache |
1946 |
DDD 83 of 1946, RYM 11 of 1946 |
42 |
Billie Holiday |
My Last Affair |
1937 |
US Billboard 10 - 1937 (3 weeks) |
43 |
Billie Holiday |
Getting Some Fun Out of Life |
1937 |
US Billboard 10 - 1937 (5 weeks) |
44 |
Billie Holiday |
Moanin' Low |
1937 |
US Billboard 11 - 1937 (2 weeks) |
45 |
Billie Holiday |
How Could You |
1937 |
US Billboard 12 - 1937 (3 weeks) |
46 |
Billie Holiday |
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams |
1937 |
US Billboard 13 - 1937 (3 weeks) |
47 |
Billie Holiday |
Yours & Mine |
1937 |
US Billboard 16 - 1937 (2 weeks) |
48 |
Billie Holiday |
It's Like Reaching for the Moon |
1936 |
US Billboard 17 - 1936 (2 weeks) |
49 |
Billie Holiday |
You Let Me Down |
1936 |
US Billboard 18 - 1936 (1 week) |
50 |
Billie Holiday |
Let's Call a Heart a Heart |
1936 |
US Billboard 18 - 1936 (1 week) |
51 |
Billie Holiday |
Trav'lin' All Alone |
1937 |
US Billboard 18 - 1937 (2 weeks) |
52 |
Billie Holiday |
That's Life, I Guess |
1936 |
US Billboard 20 - 1936 (1 week) |
53 |
Billie Holiday |
You Go to My Head |
1938 |
US Billboard 20 - 1938 (1 week) |
54 |
Billie Holiday |
Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) |
1941 |
DDD 95 of 1941 |
55 |
Billie Holiday |
Billie's Blues |
1936 |
RYM 2 of 1936 |
56 |
Billie Holiday |
Fine & Mellow |
1939 |
RYM 2 of 1939 |
57 |
Billie Holiday |
Did I Remember? |
1936 |
RYM 16 of 1936 |
58 |
Billie Holiday |
Without Your Love |
1937 |
RYM 18 of 1937 |
59 |
Billie Holiday |
One Never Knows Does One |
1937 |
RYM 22 of 1937 |
60 |
Billie Holiday |
Forget If You Can |
1938 |
RYM 16 of 1938 |
61 |
Billie Holiday |
If I Were You |
1938 |
RYM 16 of 1938 |
62 |
Billie Holiday |
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off |
1937 |
RYM 24 of 1937 |
63 |
Billie Holiday |
Born to Love |
1937 |
RYM 35 of 1937 |
64 |
Billie Holiday |
More Than You Know |
1938 |
Song of 1938 |
65 |
Billie Holiday |
I Can't Get Started |
1938 |
Song of 1938 |
66 |
Billie Holiday |
Yesterdays |
1939 |
RYM 32 of 1939 |
67 |
Billie Holiday |
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues |
1939 |
RYM 32 of 1939 |
68 |
Billie Holiday |
Swing, Brother, Swing |
1939 |
RYM 56 of 1939 |
69 |
Billie Holiday |
Our Love Is Different |
1939 |
RYM 56 of 1939 |
70 |
Billie Holiday |
Everything Happens for the Best |
1939 |
RYM 57 of 1939 |
71 |
Billie Holiday |
Under a Blue Jungle Moon |
1939 |
RYM 57 of 1939 |
72 |
Billie Holiday |
Ghost of Yesterday |
1940 |
RYM 6 of 1940 |
73 |
Billie Holiday |
Falling in Love Again |
1940 |
RYM 6 of 1940 |
74 |
Billie Holiday |
That Ole Devil Called Love |
1945 |
RYM 2 of 1945 |
75 |
Billie Holiday |
I Loves You, Porgy |
1949 |
RYM 14 of 1949 |
76 |
Billie Holiday |
You're My Thrill |
1949 |
RYM 40 of 1949 |
77 |
Billie Holiday |
T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do |
1949 |
RYM 42 of 1949 |
78 |
Billie Holiday |
Baby Get Lost |
1949 |
RYM 42 of 1949 |
79 |
Billie Holiday |
Long Gone Blues |
1947 |
RYM 18 of 1947 |
80 |
Billie Holiday |
Am I Blue? |
1947 |
RYM 18 of 1947 |
81 |
Billie Holiday |
Weep No More |
1949 |
RYM 95 of 1949 |
82 |
Billie Holiday |
Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys |
1949 |
RYM 95 of 1949 |
83 |
Billie Holiday |
There is No Greater Love |
1947 |
RYM 40 of 1947 |
84 |
Billie Holiday |
Deep Song |
1947 |
RYM 73 of 1947 |
85 |
Billie Holiday |
I'll Look Around |
1947 |
RYM 74 of 1947 |
86 |
Billie Holiday |
Baby I Don't Cry Over You |
1947 |
RYM 74 of 1947 |
87 |
Billie Holiday |
Love Me Or Leave Me |
1941 |
RYM 46 of 1941 |
88 |
Billie Holiday |
Jim |
1941 |
RYM 46 of 1941 |
89 |
Billie Holiday |
I am Yours |
1944 |
RYM 6 of 1944 |
90 |
Billie Holiday |
My Old Flame |
1944 |
RYM 6 of 1944 |
91 |
Billie Holiday |
How Am I to Know |
1944 |
RYM 16 of 1944 |
92 |
Billie Holiday |
He's Funny That Way |
1944 |
RYM 16 of 1944 |
93 |
Billie Holiday |
Lover Come Back to Me |
1944 |
RYM 17 of 1944 |
94 |
Billie Holiday |
On the Sunny Side of the Street |
1944 |
RYM 32 of 1944 |
95 |
Billie Holiday |
No Good Man |
1946 |
RYM 11 of 1946 |
96 |
Billie Holiday |
You Better Go Now |
1946 |
RYM 24 of 1946 |
97 |
Billie Holiday |
No More |
1946 |
RYM 24 of 1946 |
98 |
Billie Holiday |
What Is This Thing Called Love? |
1946 |
RYM 29 of 1946 |
99 |
Billie Holiday |
Don't Explain |
1946 |
RYM 29 of 1946 |
100 |
Billie Holiday |
Fancy Free |
1946 |
RYM 58 of 1946 |
101 |
Billie Holiday |
Big Stuff |
1946 |
RYM 58 of 1946 |
102 |
Billie Holiday |
Now or Never |
1950 |
RYM 103 of 1950 |
103 |
Billie Holiday |
Gimme A Pigfoot & A Bottle Of Beer |
1950 |
RYM 103 of 1950 |
104 |
Billie Holiday |
Rocky Mountain Blues |
1951 |
RYM 33 of 1951 |
105 |
Billie Holiday |
Blue Turning Grey Over You |
1951 |
RYM 33 of 1951 |
106 |
Billie Holiday |
Be Fair to Me |
1951 |
RYM 122 of 1951 |
107 |
Billie Holiday |
Detour Ahead |
1951 |
RYM 122 of 1951 |
In addition to the above listed songs Billie Holiday also contributed to the
following entries:
Previous Comments (newest first)
28 Jun 2015
Double Listing - Lover Man
Looks like #4 & #108 are the same.
Data fixed, thanks