The iTunes Top 40 Big Band Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of big band jazz — the swinging sound of large jazz orchestras that defined American popular music in the 1930s and 40s. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 big band jazz singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.
The genre has been shaped by visionaries like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and their modern successors who keep big band’s infectious swing alive, whose work defines what big band jazz can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.
Discover what big band jazz sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Big Band Jazz Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-10-28
1.
Break Stuff (Funky) [Special Version]
FAKE MUSIC
October 25, 2026
2.
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Marilyn Monroe
January 1, 1950
3.
Y si el Mundo se Acaba
DOOMFLOW23
June 25, 2026
4.
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Marilyn Monroe
January 1, 1964
5.
Skeleton in the Closet
Louis Armstrong
October 21, 2011
6.
Never Give Up (Instrumental)
Ariepax
April 7, 2026
7.
It's Been A Long, Long Time
Kitty Kallen
November 26, 1963
8.
What Do You Wanna Play? (From Spooky Month: The Wacky Wicked Woods) (feat. Kayleigh McKee)
Bryan Teoh
October 4, 2026
9.
Still Fly
AllDanceTeams
June 16, 2024
10.
Air Force Song (Vocal)
The United States Air Force Academy Band
July 1, 2005
11.
The Teddy Bears' Picnic
Henry Hall & The BBC Dance Orchestra
September 1, 2001
12.
A Taste of Honey (feat. The Tijuana Brass)
Herb Alpert
October 5, 2010
13.
Heart and Soul
Bea Wain
July 8, 1939
14.
El Bracero Fracasado
Conjunto el Golpe
October 5, 2026
15.
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Bobby Troup
January 1, 1978
16.
Swingin' Sweetheart
Peaceful Reveries
June 3, 2026
17.
Ain't Built The Same
Riser Smith
April 19, 2026
18.
Jesus Boogie
Sturgill Simpson
December 11, 2020
19.
Sesame Street Theme (feat. Big Bird, Elmo & Abby Cadabby)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
October 30, 2020
20.
Fools Rush In
Glenn Miller, The Glenn Miller Orchestra & Ray Eberle
March 26, 2019
21.
O Tannenbaum (feat. Aretha Franklin)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
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