# List of Most Played Juke Box Race Records number ones of 1947

In 1947, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in African-American-oriented musical genres under the title of Most Played Juke Box Race Records; placings were based on a weekly survey among jukebox operators. The chart is considered to be part of the lineage of the magazine's multimetric R&B chart, which since 2005 has been published under the title Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs. The term "race records" was then in common usage for recordings by black artists.
In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, two singles tied for the number-one position, both by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. That week's chart listed only five records, four of which were by Jordan. The following week, "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens", one of the two songs which had shared the top spot in the year's first issue, held it in its own right, and remained atop the listing without interruption through the issue of Billboard dated April 19, a total of 16 consecutive weeks at number one. Jordan also spent short spells at number one with "Texas and Pacific" and "Jack You're Dead", and 14 weeks in the top spot with "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate". Those five songs spent a total of 40 weeks at number one during the year, or 41 if the week of January 4 is double-counted. Jordan was by far the most successful artist of the 1940s on Billboard's R&B charts. His tally of 18 chart-toppers was a record which would stand until the 1980s, and he spent 113 weeks at number one, a record which would still stand in the 21st century. Jordan's success fell away in the 1950s, but his music is considered to have been hugely influential on the development of both R&B and rock and roll.
Only three acts other than Jordan topped the chart during 1947, all of whom did so for the first time. In May, Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists reached number one with "I Want to Be Loved". It would prove to be the only number one for Churchill, whose R&B chart career was short-lived and had come to an end by 1949. Her backing group the Sentimentalists would change their name to the Four Tunes and achieve R&B and pop success until the mid-1950s, but without any further number ones. In Churchill's second week at number one, her single tied for the top spot with "Old Maid Boogie" by Eddie Vinson and his Orchestra, the first chart-topper and indeed first chart entry for Vinson, nicknamed "Cleanhead"; as with Churchill, it would be the only number one of his chart career, which was short-lived. In November, "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" gave Julia Lee and her Boy Friends their first number one; the single was the year's final chart-topper.

## Chart history

Chart history :
| Issue date | Title | Artist(s) |
| January 4 | "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| January 4 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| January 11 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| January 18 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| January 25 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| February 1 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| February 8 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| February 15 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| February 22 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| March 1 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| March 8 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| March 15 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| March 22 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| March 29 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| April 5 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| April 12 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| April 19 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| April 26 | "Texas and Pacific" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| May 3 | "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| May 10 | "Texas and Pacific" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| May 17 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| May 24 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| May 24 | "Old Maid Boogie" | Eddie Vinson and his Orchestra |
| May 31 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| June 7 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| June 14 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| June 21 | "Old Maid Boogie" | Eddie Vinson and his Orchestra |
| June 28 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| June 28 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| July 5 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists |
| July 12 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| July 19 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| July 26 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| August 2 | "I Want to Be Loved" | Savannah Churchill and Sentimentalists |
| August 9 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| August 16 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| August 23 | "Jack You're Dead" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| August 30 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| September 6 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| September 13 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| September 20 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| September 27 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| October 4 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| October 11 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| October 18 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| October 25 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| November 1 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| November 8 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| November 15 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| November 22 | "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" | Julia Lee and her Boy Friends |
| November 29 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| December 6 | "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" | Julia Lee and her Boy Friends |
| December 13 | "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" | Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
| December 20 | "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" | Julia Lee and her Boy Friends |
| December 27 | "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" | Julia Lee and her Boy Friends |