Billboard Most-Played Race Records of 1946 is a year-end chart compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top race records based on the number of times the record was played on the nation's juke boxes.Billboard assigned point totals to each record based on its juke box plays. "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" from Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra was the year's No. 1 record with 120 points, ranking more than 40 points higher than any other record.