page_title: List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1947
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1947
caption_attribution_description: Photo of vocalist and actress Dorothy Shay. She called herself "the Park Avenue Hillbilly".
context_page_description: The Billboard magazine publishes a weekly chart that ranks the best-selling albums in the United States. In 1947, seven albums by five artists topped the chart. At the time, the chart was titled Best-Selling Popular Record Albums and was based on a "weekly survey among 4,970 dealers in all section of the country."
  Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas was the first album to top the chart. It started its run in November of the previous year and continued to top the chart for the first week in 1947. Like in the previous year, the album again ascended to top in November for seven more weeks. The album spent 20 weeks atop the chart between December 1945 and December 1947. It was certified gold 25 years after its release by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 500,000 or more units. The best-selling album of the previous year, Glenn Miller, topped the chart for three more weeks in early 1947, bringing the total amount the album topped the chart to 14 across three years. The album finished as the third best-selling of the year and was certified gold by the RIAA in 1968. The follow-up, Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II later topped the chart for one week.
context_section_description: The Billboard magazine publishes a weekly chart that ranks the best-selling albums in the United States. In 1947, seven albums by five artists topped the chart. At the time, the chart was titled Best-Selling Popular Record Albums and was based on a "weekly survey among 4,970 dealers in all section of the country." 
  Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas was the first album to top the chart. It started its run in November of the previous year and continued to top the chart for the first week in 1947. Like in the previous year, the album again ascended to top in November for seven more weeks. The album spent 20 weeks atop the chart between December 1945 and December 1947. It was certified gold 25 years after its release by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 or more units. The best-selling album of the previous year, Glenn Miller, topped the chart for three more weeks in early 1947, bringing the total amount the album topped the chart to 14 across three years. The album finished as the third best-selling of the year and was certified gold by the RIAA in 1968. The follow-up, Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II later topped the chart for one week.
  Al Jolson was the only artist to place two albums atop the chart; Al Jolson, Vol. 1 and Al Jolson Souvenir Album. The first of them ascended to number-one of the chart for a single week on the issue date February 1
  and reached the top again on February 15. It was the number-one album in the US for 25 weeks until August 2, making it the longest-charting album on the chart at the time. Furthermore, it was best-selling album of the year. Jolson's second album debuted atop the chart in mid-August and spent nine weeks atop, bringing his total weeks spent atop to 34. In between Jolson's run atop Dorothy Shay placed her debut album Dorothy Shay Sings for five weeks atop. Her album finished as the second best-selling of 1947.
caption: Dorothy Shay (pictured in the 1940s) was the first female singer to top the chart with Dorothy Shay Sings. The album spent five weeks atop.
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