Saturday, January 4, 2025

Dave’s Music Database: Top 10 Songs by Year (1890-2024)

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 10 Songs by Year
(1890-2024)

These are the top 10 songs for each year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists and charts. You can also click on the “decade” buttons to see the top 100 songs for each decade.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

Click on a button below to go straight to that decade.

2024

  1. Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
  2. Benson Boone “Beautiful Things”
  3. Hozier “Too Sweet”
  4. Post Malone & Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help”
  5. Sabrina Carpenter “Espresso”
  6. Beyoncé “Texas Hold ‘Em”
  7. Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather”
  8. Chappell Roan “ Good Luck, Babe!”
  9. Taylor Swift & Post Malone “Fortnight”
  10. Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us”

2023

  1. Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
  2. Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
  3. Teddy Swims “Lose Control”
  4. Olivia Rodrigo “Vampire”
  5. Billie Eilish “What Was I Made For?”
  6. Zach Bryan with Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything”
  7. Doja Cat “Paint the Town Red”
  8. Luke Combs “Fast Car”
  9. Jack Harlow “Lovin’ on Me”
  10. Dua Lipa “Dance the Night”

2022

  1. Harry Styles “As It Was”
  2. Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero”
  3. Lizzo “About Damn Time”
  4. SZA “Kill Bill”
  5. Steve Lacy “Bad Habit”
  6. Sam Smith & Kim Petras “Unholy”
  7. SZA “Snooze”
  8. Rema with Selena Gomez “Calm Down”
  9. Jack Harlow “First Class”
  10. Beyoncé “Break My Soul”

2021

  1. The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay”
  2. Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License”
  3. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak) “Leave the Door Open”
  4. Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U”
  5. Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
  6. Adele “Easy on Me”
  7. Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits”
  8. Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow “Industry Baby”
  9. Justin Bieber with Daniel Caesar & Giveon “Peaches”
  10. BTS “Butter”

2020

  1. Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating”
  2. Glass Animals “Heat Waves”
  3. Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP”
  4. Xiao Zhan “Spotlight”
  5. 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood”
  6. The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears”
  7. BTS “Dynamite”
  8. DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar”
  9. Jawsh 685 with Jason Derulo “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)”
  10. Megan Thee Stallion with Beyoncé “Savage” (remix)

2019

  1. The Weeknd “Blinding Lights”
  2. Billie Eilish “Bad Guy”
  3. Post Malone “Circles”
  4. Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello “Señorita”
  5. Tones and I “Dance Monkey”
  6. Ariana Grande “7 Rings”
  7. Roddy Ricch “The Box”
  8. Jonas Brothers “Sucker”
  9. Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now”
  10. Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar”

2018

  1. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  2. Drake “God’s Plan”
  3. Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper “Shallow”
  4. Post Malone with Swae Lee “Sunflower”
  5. Drake “In My Feelings”
  6. Ariana Grande “Thank U, Next”
  7. Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved”
  8. Cardi B with Bad Bunny & J. Balvin “I Like It”
  9. Zedd with Maren Morris & Grey “The Middle”
  10. Childish Gambino “This Is America”

2017

  1. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
  2. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito”
  3. Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect”
  4. Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You”
  5. Camila Cabello with Young Thug “Havana”
  6. Post Malone with 21 Savage “Rockstar”
  7. Kendrick Lamar “Humble”
  8. Cardi B “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)”
  9. Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be”
  10. Lizzo “Truth Hurts”

2016

  1. The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer”
  2. Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance”
  3. Rihanna with Drake “Work”
  4. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
  5. Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills”
  6. The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy”
  7. Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like”
  8. Pinkfong! “Baby Shark”
  9. Twenty One Pilots “Heathens”
  10. Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles”

2015

  1. Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth “See You Again”
  2. Adele “Hello”
  3. Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
  4. The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face”
  5. Justin Bieber “Sorry”
  6. Drake “Hotline Bling”
  7. The Weeknd “The Hills”
  8. Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?”
  9. Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out”
  10. Lukas Graham “7 Years”

2014

  1. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
  2. Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud”
  3. Taylor Swift “Shake It Off”
  4. Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass”
  5. Taylor Swift “Blank Space”
  6. Iggy Azalea with Charli XCX “Fancy”
  7. Sam Smith “Stay with Me”
  8. Maroon 5 “Sugar”
  9. OMI “Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)”
  10. Sia “Chandelier”

2013

  1. Pharrell Williams “Happy”
  2. Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines”
  3. Lorde “Royals”
  4. John Legend “All of Me”
  5. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”
  6. Katy Perry “Roar”
  7. One Republic “Counting Stars”
  8. Avici with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!”
  9. Idina Menzel “Let It Go”
  10. Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse”

2012

  1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz “Thrift Shop”
  2. Psy “Gangnam Style”
  3. Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven”
  4. The Lumineers “Ho Hey”
  5. Imagine Dragons “Radioactive”
  6. Passenger “Let Her Go”
  7. Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  8. Pink with Nate Ruess “Just Give Me a Reason”
  9. Rihanna “Diamonds”
  10. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”

2011

  1. Gotye & Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know”
  2. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe”
  3. LMFAO, Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem”
  4. Rihanna & Calvin Harris “We Found Love”
  5. Adele “Someone Like You”
  6. Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger”
  7. Fun. & Janelle Monáe “We Are Young”
  8. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us”
  9. LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It”
  10. Lady Gaga “Born This Way”

2010

  1. Adele “Rolling in the Deep”
  2. Eminem & Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie”
  3. Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)”
  4. Katy Perry “Firework”
  5. Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg “California Gurls”
  6. Cee-Lo Green “Fuck You (aka “Forget You”)”
  7. Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks”
  8. Rihanna “Only Girl in the World”
  9. Bruno Mars “Grenade”
  10. Taio Cruz “Dynamite”

2009

  1. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling”
  2. Ke$ha “Tik Tok”
  3. Jay-Z with Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind”
  4. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  5. Lady Gaga “Bad Romance”
  6. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.”
  7. Train “Hey, Soul Sister”
  8. Flo Rida with Ke$ha “Right Round”
  9. Owl City “Fireflies”
  10. Jay Sean & Lil Wayne “Down”

2008

  1. Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
  2. Lady Gaga “Poker Face”
  3. Coldplay “Viva La Vida”
  4. Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow”
  5. Jason Mraz “I’m Yours”
  6. Lady Gaga & Colby O’Donis “Just Dance”
  7. Taylor Swift “Love Story”
  8. Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl”
  9. Lil Wayne with Static Major “Lollipop”
  10. Kings of Leon “Use Somebody”

2007

  1. Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella”
  2. Flo Rida & T-Pain “Low”
  3. Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love”
  4. Alicia Keys “No One”
  5. Kanye West with Daft Punk “Stronger”
  6. Soulja Boy Tell’em “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
  7. M.I.A. “Paper Planes”
  8. Kid Rock “All Summer Long”
  9. Sara Bareilles “Love Song”
  10. Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend”

2006

  1. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
  2. Justin Timberlake “Sexyback”
  3. One Republic with Timbaland “Apologize”
  4. Shakira & Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie”
  5. Amy Winehouse “Rehab”
  6. Beyoncé “Irreplaceable”
  7. Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)”
  8. Nelly Furtado & Timbaland “Promiscuous”
  9. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars”
  10. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”

2005

  1. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger”
  2. Mariah Carey “We Belong Together”
  3. Daniel Powter “Bad Day”
  4. Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah”
  5. Gorillaz with De La Soul “Feel Good Inc.”
  6. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
  7. The Fray “How to Save a Life”
  8. 50 Cent with Olivia “Candy Shop”
  9. Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
  10. Madonna “Hung Up”

2004

  1. Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!”
  2. Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
  3. James Blunt “You’re Beautiful”
  4. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
  5. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl”
  6. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone”
  7. Mario “Let Me Love You”
  8. Snoop Dogg with Pharrell Williams “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
  9. Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying”
  10. U2 “Vertigo”

2003

  1. OutKast “Hey Ya!”
  2. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love”
  3. The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army”
  4. The Killers “Mr. Brightside”
  5. Britney Spears “Toxic”
  6. Evanescence with Paul McCoy “Bring Me to Life”
  7. Hoobastank “The Reason”
  8. Black Eyed Peas with Justin Timberlake “Where Is the Love?”
  9. Jay-Z “99 Problems”
  10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”

2002

  1. Eminem “Lose Yourself”
  2. 50 Cent “In Da Club”
  3. Nelly “Hot in Herre”
  4. Coldplay “Clocks”
  5. Nelly & Kelly Rowland “Dilemma”
  6. Johnny Cash “Hurt”
  7. Avril Lavigne “Complicated”
  8. Eminem “Without Me”
  9. Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish”
  10. Christina Aguilera “Beautiful”

2001

  1. Nickelback “How You Remind Me”
  2. Alicia Keys “Fallin’”
  3. Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
  4. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott “Get Ur Freak On”
  5. Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)”
  6. The Strokes “Last Nite”
  7. Christina Aguilera, Pink, Lil’ Kim & Mya “Lady Marmalade”
  8. The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl”
  9. Staind “It’s Been Awhile”
  10. Enrique Iglesias “Hero”

2000

  1. U2 “Beautiful Day”
  2. Eminem with Dido “Stan”
  3. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  4. Madonna “Music”
  5. OutKast “Ms. Jackson”
  6. Destiny’s Child “Independent Women”
  7. Eminem “The Real Slim Shady”
  8. 3 Doors Down “Kryptonite”
  9. Coldplay “Yellow”
  10. Linkin Park “In the End”

1999

  1. Santana with Rob Thomas “Smooth”
  2. Lonestar “Amazed”
  3. TLC “No Scrubs”
  4. Ricky Martin “Livin’ La Vida Loca”
  5. Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way”
  6. Lou Bega “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)”
  7. Destiny’s Child “Say My Name”
  8. Faith Hill “Breathe”
  9. Creed “With Arms Wide Open”
  10. Christina Aguilera “Genie in a Bottle”

1998

  1. Britney Spears “Baby One More Time”
  2. Aerosmith “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
  3. Goo Goo Dolls “Iris”
  4. Cher “Believe”
  5. Lauryn Hill “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
  6. Brandy & Monica “The Boy Is Mine”
  7. Eminem “My Name Is…”
  8. Madonna “Ray of Light”
  9. Barenaked Ladies “One Week”
  10. Sixpence None the Richer “Kiss Me”

1997

  1. Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On”
  2. Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)”
  3. The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony”
  4. Puff Daddy with Faith Evans & 112 “I’ll Be Missing You”
  5. Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  6. Natalie Imbruglia “Torn”
  7. Blur “Song 2”
  8. Green Day “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
  9. Hanson “Mmmbop”
  10. Savage Garden “Truly, Madly, Deeply”

1996

  1. Spice Girls “Wannabe”
  2. Celine Dion “Because You Loved Me”
  3. Toni Braxton “Un-Break My Heart”
  4. Blackstreet with Dr. Dre & Queen Pen “No Diggity”
  5. Donna Lewis “I Love You Always Forever”
  6. R. Kelly “I Believe I Can Fly”
  7. Fugees “Killing Me Softly”
  8. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony “Tha Crossroads”
  9. Eric Clapton “Change the World”
  10. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home”

1995

  1. Oasis “Wonderwall”
  2. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
  3. Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise”
  4. Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day”
  5. No Doubt “Don’t Speak”
  6. Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know”
  7. Pulp “Common People”
  8. Alanis Morissette “Ironic”
  9. Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger”
  10. Mariah Carey “Fantasy”

1994

  1. Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You”
  2. Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
  3. TLC “Waterfalls”
  4. Seal “Kiss from a Rose”
  5. Oasis “Live Forever”
  6. All-4-One “I Swear”
  7. Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”
  8. Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah”
  9. Bruce Springsteen “Streets of Philadelphia”
  10. Green Day “Basket Case”

1993

  1. Beck “Loser”
  2. Meat Loaf “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
  3. Janet Jackson “That’s the Way Love Goes”
  4. Sheryl Crow “All I Wanna Do”
  5. Ace of Base “The Sign”
  6. Tag Team “Whoomp! There It Is”
  7. Mariah Carey “Dreamlover”
  8. Mariah Carey “Hero”
  9. Nirvana “All Apologies”
  10. Nirvana “Heart-Shaped Box”

1992

  1. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
  2. Radiohead “Creep”
  3. Boyz II Men “End of the Road”
  4. Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven”
  5. Sir Mix-a-Lot “Baby Got Back”
  6. House of Pain “Jump Around”
  7. R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts”
  8. Kris Kross “Jump”
  9. Dr. Dre with Snoop Doggy Dogg “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang”
  10. Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”

1991

  1. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
  2. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”
  3. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion”
  4. U2 “One”
  5. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”
  6. Metallica “Enter Sandman”
  7. Pearl Jam “Jeremy”
  8. Guns N’ Roses “November Rain”
  9. Nirvana “Come As You Are”
  10. Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable”

1990

  1. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U”
  2. Madonna “Vogue”
  3. MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This”
  4. Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  5. Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby”
  6. Mariah Carey “Vision of Love”
  7. Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence”
  8. C + C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
  9. Deee-Lite “Groove Is in the Heart”
  10. Roxette “It Must Have Been Love”

1989

  1. Madonna “Like a Prayer”
  2. The B-52’s “Love Shack”
  3. Public Enemy “Fight the Power”
  4. Phil Collins “Another Day in Paradise”
  5. Tom Petty “Free Fallin’”
  6. Bette Midler “Wind Beneath My Wings”
  7. Young MC “Bust a Move”
  8. Alannah Myles “Black Velvet”
  9. Depeche Mode “Personal Jesus”
  10. Soul II Soul “Back to Life (How Ever Do You Want Me)”

1988

  1. Tracy Chapman “Fast Car”
  2. Poison “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
  3. 1988: The La’s “There She Goes”
  4. Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
  5. Metallica “One”
  6. Bangles “Eternal Flame”
  7. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “It Takes Two”
  8. Tone Loc “Wild Thing”
  9. Bobby Brown “My Prerogative”
  10. Phil Collins “A Groovy Kind of Love”

1987

  1. Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
  2. U2 “With or Without You”
  3. Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me”
  4. Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle”
  5. U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
  6. Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
  7. George Michael “Faith”
  8. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes “I’ve Had the Time of My Life”
  9. Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up”
  10. Whitesnake “Here I Go Again”

1986

  1. Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer”
  2. Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way”
  3. Prince “Kiss”
  4. Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer”
  5. Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party”
  6. Berlin “Take My Breath Away”
  7. Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian”
  8. Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes”
  9. Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over”
  10. Bon Jovi “You Give Love a Bad Name”

1985

  1. U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World”
  2. Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
  3. Dire Straits “Money for Nothing”
  4. Simple Minds “Don’t You Forget about Me”
  5. Dionne & Friends “That's What Friends Are For”
  6. Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls”
  7. Lionel Richie “Say You Say Me”
  8. Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)”
  9. Huey Lewis & the News “The Power of Love”
  10. Madonna “Into the Groove”

1984

  1. Prince “When Doves Cry”
  2. A-ha “Take on Me”
  3. Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is”
  4. George Michael “Careless Whisper”
  5. Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”
  6. Prince & the Revolution “Purple Rain”
  7. Stevie Wonder “I Just Called to Say I Love You”
  8. Madonna “Like a Virgin”
  9. Bruce Springsteen “Born in the U.S.A.”
  10. Bruce Springsteen “Dancing in the Dark”

1983

  1. The Police “Every Breath You Take”
  2. Van Halen “Jump”
  3. Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”
  4. Lionel Richie “All Night Long (All Night)”
  5. Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
  6. New Order “Blue Monday”
  7. Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time”
  8. Irene Cara “Flashdance...What a Feelin’”
  9. Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
  10. Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Relax”

1982

  1. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean”
  2. Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”
  3. Michael Jackson “Beat It”
  4. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message”
  5. Dexy’s Midnight Runners “Come on Eileen”
  6. Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind”
  7. Toto “Africa”
  8. John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack and Diane”
  9. Michael Jackson “Thriller”
  10. Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing”

1981

  1. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll”
  2. Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’”
  3. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love”
  4. The Human League “Don’t You Want Me?”
  5. Soft Cell “Tainted Love”
  6. Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes”
  7. Olivia Newton-John “Physical”
  8. Men at Work “Down Under”
  9. Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight”
  10. The Rolling Stones “Start Me Up”

1980

  1. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
  2. AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
  3. Queen “Another One Bites the Dust”
  4. Blondie “Call Me”
  5. Kool & the Gang “Celebration”
  6. Kenny Rogers “Lady”
  7. AC/DC “Back in Black”
  8. Diana Ross “Upside Down”
  9. Dolly Parton “9 to 5”
  10. REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You”

1979

  1. Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II”
  2. The Clash “London Calling”
  3. The Knack “My Sharona”
  4. Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”
  5. Sister Sledge “We Are Family”
  6. Lipps Inc. “Funkytown”
  7. The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight”
  8. Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb”
  9. Chic “Good Times”
  10. Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”

1978

  1. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive”
  2. Blondie “Heart of Glass”
  3. Chic “Le Freak”
  4. Village People “Y.M.C.A.”
  5. Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta “You’re the One That I Want”
  6. Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing”
  7. Commodores “Three Times a Lady”
  8. Earth, Wind & Fire “September”
  9. The Police “Roxanne”
  10. Gerry Rafferty “Baker Street”

1977

  1. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”
  2. Queen “We Will Rock You” / “We Are the Champions”
  3. Bee Gees “How Deep Is Your Love”
  4. Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life”
  5. Bee Gees “Night Fever”
  6. David Bowie “Heroes”
  7. Fleetwood Mac “Dreams”
  8. Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen”
  9. Eric Clapton “Wonderful Tonight”
  10. Commodores “Brick House”

1976

  1. Eagles “Hotel California”
  2. Abba “Dancing Queen”
  3. Wild Cherry “Play That Funky Music”
  4. Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.”
  5. Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way”
  6. Boston “More Than a Feeling”
  7. Rod Stewart “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)”
  8. Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
  9. Chicago “If You Leave Me Now”
  10. Elton John & Kiki Dee “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”

1975

  1. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
  2. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run”
  3. Led Zeppelin “Kashmir”
  4. Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here”
  5. Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  6. Captain & Tennille “Love Will Keep Us Together”
  7. 10cc “I’m Not in Love”
  8. Van McCoy “The Hustle”
  9. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road”
  10. Kiss “Rock and Roll All Nite”

1974

  1. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama”
  2. Bob Marley & the Wailers “No Woman, No Cry”
  3. Olivia Newton-John “I Honestly Love You”
  4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
  5. Carl Douglas “Kung Fu Fighting”
  6. George McCrae “Rock Your Baby”
  7. Bachman-Turner Overdrive “Takin’ Care of Business”
  8. Joe Cocker “You Are So Beautiful”
  9. Harry Chapin “Cat’s in the Cradle”
  10. Barry White “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”

1973

  1. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird”
  2. Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On”
  3. Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song”
  4. Tony Orlando & Dawn “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”
  5. Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were”
  6. Aerosmith “Dream On”
  7. Billy Joel “Piano Man”
  8. Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia”
  9. Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun”
  10. The Rolling Stones “Angie”

1972

  1. Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
  2. Neil Young “Heart of Gold”
  3. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side”
  4. Carly Simon “You’re So Vain”
  5. The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”
  6. Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water”
  7. Bill Withers “Lean on Me”
  8. Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
  9. Gilbert O’Sullivan “Alone Again (Naturally)”
  10. Eagles “Take It Easy”

1971

  1. John Lennon “Imagine”
  2. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”
  3. Don McLean “American Pie”
  4. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
  5. Rod Stewart “Maggie May”
  6. Al Green “Let’s Stay Together”
  7. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
  8. The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar”
  9. Harry Nilsson “Without You”
  10. The Who “Baba O’Riley”

1970

  1. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
  2. The Beatles “Let It Be”
  3. Derek & the Dominos “Layla”
  4. Elton John “Your Song”
  5. George Harrison “My Sweet Lord”
  6. The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There”
  7. Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
  8. James Taylor “Fire and Rain”
  9. The Jackson 5 “ABC”
  10. The Kinks “Lola”

1969

  1. The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women”
  2. The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back”
  3. Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds”
  4. David Bowie “Space Oddity”
  5. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary”
  6. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love”
  7. The Beatles “Something”
  8. Roberta Flack “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
  9. The Archies “Sugar Sugar”
  10. The 5th Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”

1968

  1. The Beatles “Hey Jude”
  2. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
  3. Otis Redding “Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay”
  4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower”
  5. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin' Jack Flash”
  6. Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild”
  7. Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson”
  8. Sly & the Family Stone “Everyday People”
  9. The Band “The Weight”
  10. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man”

1967

  1. Aretha Franklin “Respect”
  2. The Doors “Light My Fire”
  3. Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl”
  4. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
  5. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World”
  6. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever”
  7. The Beatles “A Day in the Life”
  8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze”
  9. The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin”
  10. Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”

1966

  1. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”
  2. The Monkees “I'm a Believer”
  3. Four Tops “Reach Out (I'll Be There)”
  4. Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman”
  5. The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black”
  6. The Beach Boys “God Only Knows”
  7. Buffalo Springfield “For What It's Worth”
  8. The Supremes “You Can't Hurry Love”
  9. Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep Mountain High”

1965

  1. The Rolling Stones “I Can't Get No Satisfaction”
  2. The Beatles “Yesterday”
  3. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone”
  4. The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody”
  5. The Who “My Generation”
  6. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man”
  7. Simon & Garfunkel “The Sound of Silence”
  8. The Beatles “Help!”
  9. The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin'“
  10. The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears”

1964

  1. The Righteous Brothers “You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'“
  2. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun”
  3. The Temptations “My Girl”
  4. Roy Orbison “Oh Pretty Woman”
  5. The Kinks “You Really Got Me”
  6. Martha & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street”
  7. The Beatles “Can't Buy Me Love”
  8. Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come”
  9. Disneyland Boys Choir “It's a Small World After All”
  10. Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin'“

1963

  1. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
  2. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie”
  3. The Ronettes “Be My Baby”
  4. The Beatles “She Loves You”
  5. The Beatles “Twist and Shout”
  6. Bob Dylan “Blowin' in the Wind”
  7. Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire”
  8. The Chiffons “He's So Fine”
  9. The Drifters “On Broadway”
  10. The Beach Boys “Surfin' U.S.A.”

1962

  1. Ray Charles “I Can't Stop Loving You”
  2. Booker T. & the MGs “Green Onions”
  3. Little Eva “The Loco-Motion”
  4. Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”
  5. The Four Seasons “Sherry”
  6. The Contours “Do You Love Me?”
  7. The Four Seasons “Big Girls Don't Cry”
  8. The Beatles “Love Me Do”
  9. The Crystals (actually The Blossoms) “He's a Rebel”

1961

  1. Ben E. King “Stand by Me”
  2. Patsy Cline “Crazy”
  3. Elvis Presley “Can't Help Falling in Love “
  4. Del Shannon “Runaway”
  5. Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River”
  6. The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)”
  7. The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman”
  8. Dion “Runaround Sue”
  9. Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl”
  10. Bobby Lewis “Tossin' and Turnin'“

1960

  1. Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind”
  2. Chubby Checker “The Twist”
  3. Etta James “At Last”
  4. Elvis Presley “It's Now Or Never”
  5. Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
  6. The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
  7. The Everly Brothers “Cathy's Clown”
  8. The Drifters “Save the Last Dance for Me”
  9. Percy Faith “Theme from A Summer Place”
  10. Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely”

1959

  1. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife”
  2. Ray Charles “What'd I Say”
  3. The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You”
  4. Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans”
  5. The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)”
  6. Marty Robbins “El Paso”
  7. Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five “
  8. Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City”
  9. Jim Reeves “He'll Have to Go”
  10. Frankie Avalon “Venus”

1958

  1. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”
  2. The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
  3. The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream”
  4. Ritchie Valens “La Bamba”
  5. Domenico Modugno “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue)”
  6. Harry Simeone Chorale “The Little Drummer Boys”
  7. The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley”
  8. The Champs “Tequila”
  9. Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues”
  10. The Coasters “Yakety Yak”

1957

  1. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock”
  2. Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire”
  3. Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That'll Be the Day”
  4. Elvis Presley “All Shook Up “
  5. Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On”
  6. Sam Cooke “You Send Me”
  7. Danny & the Juniors “At the Hop”
  8. The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie”
  9. Buddy Holly & the Crickets “Peggy Sue”
  10. Paul Anka “Diana”

1956

  1. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel”
  2. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog “
  3. Elvis Presley “Don't Be Cruel”
  4. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line”
  5. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes”
  6. Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”
  7. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender”
  8. Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill”
  9. The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember)”
  10. Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues”

1955

  1. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons”
  2. Little Richard “Tutti Frutti”
  3. The Platters “Only You and You Alone”
  4. The Platters “The Great Pretender”
  5. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas”
  6. Chuck Berry “Maybellene”
  7. Fats Domino “Ain't That a Shame (aka "Ain't It a Shame")”
  8. Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley”
  9. Perez "Prez" Prado “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White”
  10. The Four Aces “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing”

1954

  1. Bill Haley & His Comets “We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock”
  2. The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)”
  3. Elvis Presley “That's All Right, Mama”
  4. The Chords “Sh-Boom”
  5. Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
  6. The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman”
  7. The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely”
  8. Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man”
  9. Erroll Garner Trio “Misty”

1953

  1. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin' Heart”
  2. Doris Day “Secret Love”
  3. Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)”
  4. The Orioles “Crying in the Chapel”
  5. Percy Faith & Felicia Sanders “Where Is Your Heart (Song from "Moulin Rouge")”
  6. Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window”
  7. The Drifters “Money Honey”
  8. Dean Martin “That's Amore “
  9. Frankie Laine “I Believe”
  10. Tony Bennett “Rags to Riches”

1952

  1. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me”
  2. Jimmy Boyd “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
  3. Rosemary Clooney “Tenderly”
  4. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune”
  5. Vera Lynn “Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart”
  6. Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
  7. Perry Como & the Ramblers “Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes”
  8. Al Martino “Here in My Heart”
  9. Teresa Brewer “Till I Waltz Again with You”
  10. Patti Page “I Went to Your Wedding”

1951

  1. Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon”
  2. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry”
  3. Tommy Edwards “It's All in the Game”
  4. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88”
  5. Nat "King Cole" “Too Young”
  6. Tony Bennett “Because of You”
  7. Hank Williams “Cold Cold Heart”
  8. The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man”
  9. Eddy Howard “Sin (It's No Sin)”
  10. Perry Como “If (They Made Me a King)”

1950

  1. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz”
  2. The Weavers “Goodnight Irene”
  3. Nat "King Cole" “Mona Lisa”
  4. Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme”
  5. Bill Snyder “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”
  6. Hank Snow “I'm Movin' On”
  7. Edith Piaf “La Vie En Rose”
  8. Teresa Brewer & the Dixieland All Stars “Music! Music! Music!”
  9. The Andrews Sisters “I Wanna Be Loved by You”
  10. Eileen Barton & the New Yorkers “If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake”

1949

  1. Gene Autry & the Pinafores “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
  2. Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)”
  3. Perry Como “Some Enchanted Evening”
  4. Hank Williams “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry”
  5. John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen”
  6. Frankie Laine & Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires “That Lucky Old Sun”
  7. Blue Barron & His Orchestra “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon”
  8. Vic Damone “You're Breaking My Heart”
  9. Frankie Laine & the Muleskinners “Mule Train”
  10. The Andrews Sisters “I Can Dream, Can't I?”

1948

  1. Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag”
  2. Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows”
  3. Nat "King Cole" “Nature Boy”
  4. Art Mooney “I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover”
  5. Peggy Lee “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me”
  6. Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher”
  7. Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)”
  8. Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters “A Little Bird Told Me”
  9. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood “On a Slow Boat to China”
  10. Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow”

1947

  1. Francis Craig & Bob Lamm “Near You”
  2. The Harmonicats “Peg O' My Heart”
  3. Thelonious Monk “Round Midnight (aka "Round About Midnight")”
  4. Ted Weems & Elmo Tanner “Heartaches”
  5. Vaughn Monroe “Ballerina (aka "Dance Ballerina Dance")”
  6. Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”
  7. T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday”
  8. Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
  9. Ray Noble & Buddy Clark “Linda”

1946

  1. Nat "King Cole" “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”
  2. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy”
  3. Nat "King Cole" “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons”
  4. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own”
  5. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Oh What It Seemed to Be”
  6. Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie”
  7. Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More”
  8. James Baskett “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”
  9. Sammy Kaye & Billy Williams “The Old Lamplighter”
  10. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Rumors Are Flying”

1945

  1. Les Brown & Doris Day “Sentimental Journey”
  2. Vaughn Monroe “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
  3. Perry Como “Till the End of Time”
  4. Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe”
  5. Hal McIntyre & Ruth Gaylor “My Funny Valentine”
  6. Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive”
  7. Dick Haymes “It Might As Well Be Spring”
  8. Vaughn Monroe “There! I've Said It Again”
  9. Perry Como “If I Loved You”

1944

  1. Bing Crosby “I'll Be Seeing You”
  2. Bing Crosby & the Williams Brothers Quartet “Swinging on a Star”
  3. Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land”
  4. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don't Fence Me In”
  5. The Andrews Sisters “Rum and Coca Cola”
  6. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
  7. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen “Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)”
  8. Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest “Long Ago and Far Away”
  9. Judy Garland “The Trolley Song”
  10. The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love”
  11. Nat "King Cole" “Straighten Up and Fly Right”

1943

  1. Harry James & Helen Forrest “I've Heard That Song Before”
  2. Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners “You'll Never Know”
  3. Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin' Mama”
  4. Bing Crosby “I'll Be Home for Christmas”
  5. Glenn Miller with Skip Nelson “That Old Black Magic”
  6. Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers “Sunday, Monday or Always”
  7. Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & the Sportsmen Glee Club “People Will Say We're in Love”
  8. The Ink Spots “Don't Get Around Much Anymore”
  9. The Andrews Sisters “Shoo-Shoo Baby”
  10. Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & the Sportsmen Glee Club “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'“

1942

  1. Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas”
  2. The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll”
  3. Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By”
  4. Judy Garland & Gene Kelly “For Me and My Gal”
  5. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell “Tangerine”
  6. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton “I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo”
  7. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, & the Modernaires “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me”
  8. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle & the Modernaires “Moonlight Cocktail”
  9. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway “Jingle Jangle Jingle”
  10. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “There Are Such Things”

1941

  1. Artie Shaw “Stardust”
  2. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo”
  3. Duke Ellington “Take the "A" Train”
  4. Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)”
  5. The Andrews Sisters “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
  6. Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child”
  7. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)”
  8. Harry James & Dick Haymes “I'll Get by As Long As I Have You”
  9. Benny Goodman with Louise Tobin “There'll Be Some Changes Made”
  10. Sammy Kaye “Daddy”

1940

  1. Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul”
  2. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “I'll Never Smile Again”
  3. Artie Shaw “Frenesi”
  4. Cliff Edwards & the Ken Darby Singers “When You Wish Upon a Star”
  5. Glenn Miller “Tuxedo Junction”
  6. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine”
  7. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread”
  8. Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song”
  9. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “San Antonio Rose (New)”
  10. Bing Crosby “Only Forever”

1939

  1. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow”
  2. Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
  3. Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “All the Things You Are”
  4. Kate Smith “God Bless America”
  5. Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”
  6. Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “Deep Purple”
  7. Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade”
  8. Harry James & Frank Sinatra “All or Nothing at All”
  9. Walter Huston “September Song”
  10. The Ink Spots “If I Didn't Care”

1938

  1. Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine”
  2. Ella Fitzgerald “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
  3. Benny Goodman “Sing Sing Sing with a Swing”
  4. Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “I Can't Get Started”
  5. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball”
  6. Al Donhue & Paula Kelly “Jeepers Creepers”
  7. Bing Crosby “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby”
  8. Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “My Reverie”
  9. Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music Maestro Please!”

1937

  1. The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You're Grand)”
  2. Fred Astaire “They Can't Take That Away from Me”
  3. Count Basie “One O'Clock Jump”
  4. Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani”
  5. Shep Fields & Bob Goday “That Old Feeling”
  6. Hal Kemp & Bob Allen “Where or When”
  7. Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While”
  8. Shep Fields & Bob Goday “Thanks for the Memory”
  9. Seven Dwarfs “Whistle While You Work”
  10. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “September in the Rain”

1936

  1. Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight”
  2. Billie Holiday “Summertime”
  3. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “I've Got You Under My Skin”
  4. Robert Johnson “Crossroads (aka "Cross Road Blues")”
  5. Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You”
  6. Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody”
  7. Fred Astaire “A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song)”
  8. Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone”
  9. Shep Fields & Charles Chester “Did I Remember?”

1935

  1. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers “Cheek to Cheek”
  2. Bing Crosby & the Guardsmen Quartette “Silent Night”
  3. Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven”
  4. Little Jack Little “I'm in the Mood for Love”
  5. Fats Waller “Honeysuckle Rose”
  6. The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Bob Crosby “Lullaby of Broadway”
  7. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset”
  8. Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “When I Grow Too Old to Dream”
  9. Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Blue Moon”
  10. Richard Himber & Stuart Allen “Just One of Those Things”

1934

  1. Guy Lombardo “Winter Wonderland”
  2. The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”
  3. Eddy Duchin & Lew Sherwood “Let's Fall in Love”
  4. Ethel Merman “I Get a Kick Out of You”
  5. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “Stars Fell on Alabama”
  6. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “The Very Thought of You”
  7. Leo Reisman “The Continental (You Kiss While We're Dancing)”
  8. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “Isle of Capri”
  9. Bing Crosby “June in January”
  10. Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two”

1933

  1. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)”
  2. Duke Ellington “Sophisticated Lady”
  3. George Olsen with Jim Morrison “The Last Round-Up”
  4. Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Dudley Mecum “42nd Street”
  5. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “Lover”
  6. Ted Lewis “Lazy Bones”
  7. Bing Crosby “You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me”
  8. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel”
  9. Paul Whiteman with Bob Lawrence “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
  10. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “Love Is the Sweetest Thing”

1932

  1. Fred Astaire “Night and Day”
  2. Louis Armstrong “All of Me”
  3. Rudy Vallee “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?”
  4. Duke Ellington & Ivie Anderson “It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing”
  5. Ted Lewis “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town”
  6. Bing Crosby & the Mills Brothers “Dinah”
  7. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “How Deep Is the Ocean?”
  8. Leo Reisman & Frances Maddux “Paradise”
  9. Paul Whiteman with Irene Taylor “Willow Weep for Me”
  10. Bing Crosby “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?”

1931

  1. Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo”
  2. Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)”
  3. Wayne King & Ernie Burchill “Dream a Little Dream of Me”
  4. Wayne King & Ernie Burchill “Goodnight Sweetheart”
  5. Libby Holman “Love for Sale”
  6. Bing Crosby “Out of Nowhere”
  7. Gus Arnheim with Donald Novis “Sweet and Lovely”
  8. Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store”
  9. Rudy Vallee “As Time Goes By”
  10. Ted Lewis “Just a Gigolo”

1930

  1. Ted Lewis “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
  2. Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again”
  3. Harry Richman “Puttin' on the Ritz”
  4. Red Nichols “I Got Rhythm”
  5. Rudy Vallee “Stein Song (University of Maine)”
  6. Don Azpiazu & Arturo Machin “The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)”
  7. Leo Reisman “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
  8. Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “Little White Lies”
  9. Duke Ellington & the Rhythm Boys “Three Little Words”
  10. Red Nichols & Dick Robertson “Embraceable You”

1929

  1. Fats Waller “Ain't Misbehavin'“
  2. Nick Lucas “Tip Toe Through the Tulips”
  3. Eddie Cantor “Makin' Whoopee”
  4. Cliff Edwards (aka Ukelele Ike) “Singin' in the Rain”
  5. Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?”
  6. Ruth Etting “Love Me Or Leave Me”
  7. Rudy Vallee “Honey”
  8. Gene Austin “Carolina Moon”
  9. Maurice Chevalier “Louise”
  10. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “Lover Come Back to Me”

1928

  1. Cliff Edwards “I Can't Give You Anything But Love”
  2. Marion Harris “The Man I Love”
  3. Al Jolson “Sonny Boy”
  4. Gene Austin “My Melancholy Baby”
  5. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)”
  6. Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines “West End Blues”
  7. Gene Austin “Ramona”
  8. The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower”
  9. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young “Among My Souvenirs”
  10. Fred Waring & Tom Waring “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life”

1927

  1. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven”
  2. Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman “Ol' Man River”
  3. Ben Selvin “Blue Skies”
  4. Ben Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot “Ain't She Sweet?”
  5. "Whispering" Jack Smith “Me and My Shadow”
  6. Guy Lombardo & Weston Vaughan “Charmaine”
  7. Paul Whiteman & the Rhythm Boys “Side by Side”
  8. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)”
  9. Red Nichols “Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider”
  10. Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals “Stardust”

1926

  1. George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce “Always”
  2. Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird”
  3. Gertrude Lawrence “Someone to Watch Over Me”
  4. Paul Whiteman with Frankly Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)”
  5. Jan Garber & Benny Davis “Baby Face”
  6. Gene Austin “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue”
  7. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young “The Birth of the Blues”
  8. George Olsen “Who?”
  9. Al Jolson “I'm Sitting on Top of the World”
  10. Al Jolson “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along”

1925

  1. Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues”
  2. Marion Harris “Tea for Two”
  3. Ben Bernie “Sweet Georgia Brown”
  4. Gene Austin & Billy Carpenter “Yes Sir! That's My Baby”
  5. Eddie Cantor “If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie”
  6. Ben Selvin “Manhattan”
  7. Al Jolson “All Alone”
  8. Isham Jones with Ray Miller & Frank Bessinger “I'll See You in My Dreams”
  9. Louise Homer “America the Beautiful”

1924

  1. Isham Jones “It Had to Be You”
  2. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner's Song”
  3. Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”
  4. Al Jolson “California Here I Come”
  5. Paul Whiteman “What'll I Do?”
  6. Arthur Gibbs & His Gang “Charleston”
  7. Paul Whiteman “Somebody Loves Me”
  8. Paul Whiteman “Linger Awhile”
  9. Ted Weems “Somebody Stole My Gal”
  10. Vincent Lopez “I Want to Be Happy”

1923

  1. Van & Schenck “Carolina in the Morning”
  2. Billy Jones “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
  3. Wendell Hall “It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'“
  4. Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues”
  5. Paul Whiteman “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers”
  6. Isham Jones “Swingin' Down the Lane”
  7. Billy Murray & Ed Smalle “That Old Gang of Mine”
  8. Benny Krueger “I Cried for You”
  9. Paul Whiteman “Bambalina”
  10. Art Landy “Dreamy Melody”

1922

  1. Paul Whiteman “Three O'Clock in the Morning”
  2. Al Jolson “Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo-Bye!)”
  3. Henry Burr “My Buddy”
  4. Ben Selvin “Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)”
  5. Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)”
  6. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean”
  7. Fanny Brice “Second Hand Rose”
  8. Paul Whiteman “Stumbling”

1921

  1. Al Jolson “April Showers”
  2. Van & Schenck “Ain't We Got Fun?”
  3. Paul Whiteman “My Mammy”
  4. Eddie Cantor “Margie”
  5. Ted Lewis “All by Myself”
  6. Marion Harris “Look for the Silver Lining”
  7. Ray Miller “The Sheik of Araby”
  8. Isham Jones “Wabash Blues”
  9. Paul Whiteman “Say It with Music”
  10. U.S. Naval Academy Band “Anchors Aweigh (U.S. Navy Song)”

1920

  1. Al Jolson “Swanee”
  2. Paul Whiteman “Whispering”
  3. Ben Selvin “Dardanella”
  4. Paul Whiteman “The Japanese Sandman”
  5. Ted Lewis “When My Baby Smiles at Me”
  6. Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds “Crazy Blues”
  7. Charles Harrison “I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time”
  8. Paul Whiteman “Wang Wang Blues”
  9. Al Jolson “Avalon”
  10. John Steel “The Love Nest”

1919

  1. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again”
  2. Marion Harris “After You've Gone”
  3. Ben Selvin “I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles”
  4. John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody”
  5. Henry Burr “Beautiful Ohio”
  6. Nora Bayes “How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree”
  7. Henry Burr “Oh What a Pal Was Mary”
  8. Al Jolson “I'll Say She Does”
  9. Arthur Fields “Ja Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing Jing Jing)”
  10. Marion Harris “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

1918

  1. Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag”
  2. Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody”
  3. Arthur Fields “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning”
  4. Charles Harrison “I'm Always Chasing Rainbows”
  5. Henry Burr “Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight”
  6. Ernestine Schumann-Heink “Danny Boy”
  7. Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough “Smiles”
  8. Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)”
  9. Irving Kauffman & the Columbia Quartet “Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here”
  10. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “The Darktown Strutters' Ball”

1917

  1. American Quartet “Over There”
  2. Knickerbocker Quartet “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile”
  3. Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly”
  4. Anna Wheaton & James Harrod “Till the Clouds Roll By”
  5. Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown) “Missouri Waltz (Hush-A-Bye Ma Baby)”
  6. American Quartet “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!”
  7. American Quartet “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!”
  8. Conway's Band “Indiana”
  9. Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Livery Stable Blues”
  10. John McCormack “Send Me Away with a Smile”

1916

  1. Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)”
  2. Billy Murray “Pretty Baby”
  3. Henry Burr “Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)”
  4. John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling”
  5. Marguerite Farrell “If I Knock the 'L' Out of Kelly, It Would Still Be Kelly to Me”
  6. Charles Harrison “Ireland Must Be Heaven for My Mother Came from There”
  7. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “There's a Quaker Down in Quaker Town”
  8. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That's Love in Honolulu)”
  9. John McCormack “The Sunshine of Your Smile”
  10. Prince's Orchestra “The Star-Spangled Banner”

1915

  1. John McCormack “It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary”
  2. Harry MacDonough with Olive Kline (as Alice Green) “They Didn't Believe Me”
  3. Peerless Quartet “I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”
  4. Alma Gluck “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”
  5. George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)”
  6. Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!”
  7. James F. Harrison (as Frederick J. Wheeler) “Keep the Home Fires Burning”
  8. American Quartet “Chinatown, My Chinatown”
  9. James F. Harrison & James Reed “There's a Long, Long Trail”
  10. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Close to My Heart”

1914

  1. Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea”
  2. Prince's Orchestra “Ballin' the Jack”
  3. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon”
  4. Prince's Orchestra “The Memphis Blues”
  5. American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”
  6. American Quartet “When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose”
  7. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “I Love the Ladies”
  8. Henry Burr, Albert Campbell, & Will Oakland “I'm on My Way to Mandalay”
  9. Joe Hayman “Cohen on the Telephone”
  10. Henry Burr “The Song That Stole My Heart Away”

1913

  1. Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)”
  2. Chauncey Olcott “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
  3. Henry Burr “When I Lost You”
  4. Chauncey Olcott “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)”
  5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'“
  6. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine”
  7. Ada Jones “Row Row Row!”
  8. Al Jolson “The Spaniard That Blighted My Life”
  9. Henry Burr “Last Night Was the End of the World”
  10. Harry MacDonough “There's a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me)”

1912

  1. American Quartet “Moonlight Bay”
  2. Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee”
  3. Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown) “I Love You Truly”
  4. Bob Roberts “Ragtime Cowboy Joe”
  5. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee”
  6. Al Jolson “That Haunting Melody”
  7. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen”
  8. Al Jolson “Ragging the Baby to Sleep”
  9. American Quartet “Everybody Two-Step”
  10. Enrico Caruso “Love Is Mine”

1911

  1. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Alexander's Ragtime Band”
  2. Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”
  3. Harry MacDonough “Down by the Old Mill Stream”
  4. Billy Murray & American Quartet “Oh You Beautiful Doll”
  5. Ada Jones with Billy Murray & the American Quartet “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine”
  6. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)”
  7. Peerless Quartet “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad”
  8. John McCormack “I'm Falling in Love with Someone”
  9. Will Oakland “Mother Machree”

1910

  1. Nora Bayes “Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?”
  2. Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days”
  3. American Quartet with Billy Murray “Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer)”
  4. Bert Williams “Play That Barber-Shop Chord”
  5. Henry Burr “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland”
  6. Harry MacDonough “Where the River Shannon Flows (new version)”
  7. Harry MacDonough with Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own”
  8. Ada Jones & the American Quartet “Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon”
  9. Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (aka Fisk Jubilee Singers) “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
  10. Billy Murray “Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)”

1909

  1. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”
  2. Harry MacDonough with Miss Walton “Shine on Harvest Moon”
  3. Henry Burr “I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now”
  4. Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet”
  5. Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson “Good Evening, Caroline”
  6. Ada Jones “I've Got Rings on My Fingers”
  7. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew”
  8. Ada Jones & the Victor Light Opera Co. “The Yama Yama Man”
  9. Henry Burr “To the End of the World with You”
  10. Arthur Collins “That's A-Plenty”

1908

  1. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
  2. Victor Orchestra “The Glow-Worm”
  3. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine”
  4. Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Sunbonnet Sue”
  5. Alan Turner “As Long As the World Rolls On”
  6. Billy Murray “Under Any Old Flag at All”
  7. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D”
  8. Elise Stevenson “Are You Sincere?”
  9. Billy Murray “I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark”
  10. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Make Believe”

1907

  1. Byron G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)”
  2. Byron G. Harlan “My Gal Sal”
  3. Billy Murray “Harrigan”
  4. Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (new version)”
  5. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk”
  6. Bert Williams “He's a Cousin of Mine”
  7. Harry Lauder “I Love a Lassie (My Scotish Bluebell)”
  8. Ada Jones “I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave”
  9. Frank Stanley “Auld Lang Syne”
  10. Vess Ossman “Maple Leaf Rag”

1906

  1. Billy Murray “You're a Grand Old Flag (aka "The Grand Old Rag)”
  2. Byron G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie”
  3. Bert Williams “Nobody”
  4. Henry Burr “Love Me and the World Is Mine”
  5. Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?”
  6. Corinne Morgan “So Long, Mary”
  7. Byron G. Harlan “The Good Old U.S.A.”
  8. Ada Jones “Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me)”
  9. Byron G. Harlan “Daddy's Little Girl”
  10. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Camp Meetin' Time”

1905

  1. Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway”
  2. Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy”
  3. Henry Burr (as Irving Gillette) “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”
  4. Billy Murray “In My Merry Oldsmobile”
  5. Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear”
  6. Billy Murray “Everybody Works But Father”
  7. Byron G. Harlan “Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door”
  8. Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Dearie”
  9. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Coax Me”

1904

  1. Haydn Quartet with John Bieling & S.H. Dudley “Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart)”
  2. Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis”
  3. Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Toyland”
  4. Richard Jose “Silver Threads Among the Gold”
  5. Billy Murray “Navajo”
  6. Billy Murray “Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship”
  7. Byron G. Harlan & Frank Stanley “Blue Bell”
  8. Frank Stanley & Corrine Morgan “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka "The Mocking Bird")”
  9. Billy Murray “Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?)”
  10. Billy Murray “Under the Anheuser Busch”

1903

  1. Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime”
  2. Harry MacDonough “Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha)”
  3. Haydn Quartet “Bedelia”
  4. Arthur Collins “Any Rags?”
  5. George Alexander “Mighty Like a Rose (aka "Mighty Lak' a Rose")”
  6. Harry MacDonough with John Bieling “In the Sweet Bye and Bye”
  7. Mina Hickman “Come Down Ma Evening Star”
  8. Arthur Collins “Goodbye Eliza Jane”
  9. Byron G. Harlan “Always in the Way”
  10. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Hurrah for Baffin's Bay”

1902

  1. Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?”
  2. Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree”
  3. Len Spencer “Arkansaw Traveler”
  4. J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon”
  5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Down Where the Wurzburger Flows”
  6. Harry MacDonough “The Mansion of Aching Hearts”
  7. Bert Williams & George Walker “Good Morning Carrie”
  8. J.W. Myers “Way Down in Old Indiana”
  9. Bert Williams “When It's All Goin' Out and Nothin' Comin' In”

1901

  1. Byron G. Harlan “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven”
  2. Harry MacDonough with Grace Spencer “Tell Me Pretty Maiden”
  3. Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray”
  4. Harry MacDonough “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder”
  5. Will Denny “Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me”
  6. Harry MacDonough “The Tale of a Bumble Bee”
  7. Jere Mahoney “For Old Times' Sake”
  8. Harry MacDonough “When the Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie, Dear”
  9. Harry MacDonough “I'll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again”
  10. Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee Dance”

1900

  1. Vess Ossman “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) (instrumental)”
  2. Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage”
  3. George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen”
  4. Albert Campbell “Ma Blushin' Rosie”
  5. Arthur Collins “Ma Tiger Lily”
  6. Harry MacDonough “I Can't Tell You Why I Love You But I Do”
  7. Arthur Collins “Mandy Lee”
  8. George J. Gaskin “When Chloe Sings a Song”
  9. Jere Mahoney “When You Were Sweet Sixteen”
  10. Vess Ossman “A Coon Band Contest”

1899

  1. Arthur Collins “Hello Ma Baby”
  2. Scott Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag”
  3. George J. Gaskin “My Wild Irish Rose”
  4. Len Spencer “Hello Ma Baby”
  5. Albert Campbell “My Wild Irish Rose”
  6. Arthur Collins “I'd Leave My Happy Home for You”
  7. traditional “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain”
  8. William F. Hooley “Gypsy Love Song (Slumber on, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart)”
  9. Len Spencer “Smoky Mokes”
  10. Arthur Collins “I Guess I'll Have to Telegraph My Baby”

1898

  1. Edison Male Quartette “My Old Kentucky Home”
  2. Dan Quinn “At a Georgia Camp Meeting”
  3. Steve Porter “On the Banks of the Wabash”
  4. George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home”
  5. George J. Gaskin “She Was Bred in Old Kentucky”
  6. George J. Gaskin “Break the News to Mother”
  7. Vess Ossman “At a Georgia Camp Meeting”
  8. Billy Golden “Bye Bye My Honey”
  9. Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh’s Arrival in New York”
  10. Dan Quinn “She Was Happy Till She Met You”

1897

  1. John Philip Sousa John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
  2. George J. Gaskin “On the Banks of the Wabash”
  3. Len Spencer “A Hot Time in the Old Town”
  4. Len Spencer “Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose”
  5. George J. Gaskin “Sweet Rosie O'Grady”
  6. Len Spencer “My Gal Is a High-Born Lady”
  7. George J. Gaskin “A Hot Time in the Old Town”
  8. J.W. Myers “Goodbye Dolly Gray”
  9. Dan Quinn “My Mother Was a Lady”
  10. Dan Quinn “There's a Little Star Shining for You”

1896

  1. Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town”
  2. James Black and Katharine Purvis (writers) “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1896)
  3. George J. Gaskin “The Sunshine of Paradise Alley”
  4. George J. Gaskin “She May Have Seen Better Days”
  5. George J. Gaskin “Down in Poverty Row”
  6. Dan Quinn “In the Baggage Coach Ahead”
  7. Len Spencer “You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down”
  8. traditional “Red River Valley”
  9. Len Spencer & Vess Ossman “Hot Time on the Levee”
  10. George J. Gaskin “On the Benches in the Park”

1895

  1. Katherine Lee Bates (m) & Samuel A. Ward (w) “America the Beautiful”
  2. Dan Quinn “The Band Played On”
  3. Dan Quinn “The Sidewalks of New York”
  4. Sousa’s Band “El Capitan March”
  5. George J. Gaskin “The Sidewalks of New York”
  6. J.W. Myers “The Sidewalks of New York”
  7. Sousa’s Band “King Cotton March”
  8. Sousa’s Band “The Washington Post March”
  9. Dan Quinn “The Little Lost Child”
  10. Vess Ossman “Cocoanut Dance”

1894

  1. Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)”
  2. Silas Leachman “Dem Golden Slippers”
  3. United States Marine Band “The Liberty Bell”
  4. traditional “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
  5. Edward M. Favor “Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye”
  6. George J. Gaskin “Sweet Marie”
  7. Manhansett Quartette “The Old Oaken Bucket”
  8. Dan Quinn “And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back”
  9. Dan Quinn “My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl”
  10. Russell Hunting “Casey at Denny Murphy’s Wake”

1893

  1. George J. Gaskin “After the Ball”
  2. Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill (songwriters) “Happy Birthday to You”
  3. Dan Quinn “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)”
  4. George J. Gaskin “Oh Promise Me”
  5. John Yorke Atlee “After the Ball”
  6. Jules Levy “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
  7. George J. Gaskin “The Fatal Wedding”
  8. Len Spencer “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”
  9. Dan Quinn “The Bowery”
  10. Sergei Rachmaninoff “Prelude in C# Minor”

1892

  1. Len Spencer “Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay”
  2. Len Spencer “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)”
  3. Thomas Bott “Love’s Old Sweet Song”
  4. Dan Quinn “Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow”
  5. Manhansett Quartette “Sally in Our Alley”
  6. Gilmore’s Band “The Star-Spangled Banner”
  7. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey at the Telephone”
  8. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey Taking the Census”
  9. Charles Marsh “Throw Him Down, McCloskey”
  10. Manhansett Quartette “The Picture Turned to the Wall”

1891

  1. Billy Golden “Turkey in the Straw”
  2. George Washington Johnson “The Laughing Song”
  3. George J. Gaskin “Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill”
  4. George Washington Johnson “The Whistling Coon”
  5. John Yorke Atlee “Home Sweet Home”
  6. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey As a Physician”
  7. Dan Kelly “Pat Kelly As a Police Justice”
  8. Len Spencer “Little ‘Iza Loves You”
  9. George J. Gaskin “The Picture Turned to the Wall”
  10. Dan Kelly “Pat Kelly on a Spree”

1890

  1. John Yorke Atlee “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)”
  2. United States Marine Band “The Washington Post March”
  3. United States Marine Band “Semper Fidelis”
  4. United States Marine Band “The Thunderer”
  5. Emile Berliner “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
  6. Emile Berliner “Auld Lang Syne”
  7. Emile Berliner (unknown performer recorded by Berliner) “Mary Hade a Little Lamb/Humpty Dumpty”
  8. (composer unknown) “Reveille”
  9. United States Marine Band “Wedding March from Midsummer’s Night Dream”
  10. Emile Berliner “The Lord’s Prayer”

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2024 at 1:08 PM

    a similar page for albums would be interesting

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    1. Dave WhitakerJanuary 17, 2024 at 3:59 PM

      There is such a page. It's listed under the "Resources/Related Links" on this page. https://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/p/top-songs-and-albums-by-year.html

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