Friday, January 30, 2026

Today in Music (1836): Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings premiered

Octet for Strings in E♭ major, Op. 20

Felix Mendelssohn

Composition Completed: October 15, 1825

First Performed: January 30, 1836

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Genre: classical > chamber music

Parts/Movements:

  1. I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco (E♭ major)
  2. II. Andante (C minor)
  3. III. Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo (G minor)
  4. IV: Presto (E♭ major)

Average Duration: 30 minutes

Rating:

4.745 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings)

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About the Work:

Felix Mendelssohn was born in 1809 in Hamburg. Germany. He died in 1847 at age 38. He was only 16 years old when he completed composition on his octet. ES He has been called “the greatest prodigy in Western musical history.” ES The octet “is regarded as a first-rate masterwork on par with those of the finest mature composers of any age.” ES

It was written for four violins, two violas, and two cellos. He wrote it and gave a signed score to Eduard Rietz, his friend and violin teacher, as a birthday present. WK It “created a new chamber music genre” WK as string quartets were the most widely known works within chamber music. WK

EarSense.org argues that “Mendelssohn had no specific models from distinguished predecessors as a basis: his Octet is the first of its kind and has arguably never been surpassed.” ES However, he may have been inspired by Louis Spohr’s Double Quartet in D minor, Op. 65. Nonetheless, Mendelssohn’s Octet is an undivided ensemble while Spohr’s work was written with two quartets playing apart from each other. WK Mendelssohn specified in the score that the piece “must be played by all the instruments in symphonic orchestral style.” WK

The piece is comprised of four movements in sonata form. A performance runs about 30 minutes with the first movement comprising about half of the playing time. WK At EarSense.org, Conrad Wilson says, “Its youthful verve, brilliance and perfection make it one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music.” ES

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Dave’s Music Database: Top 10 Songs by Year (1890-2025)

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 10 Songs Year by Year
(1890-2025)

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. I’m in the process of developing this into a book.

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

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

2025

  1. Alex Warren “Ordinary”
  2. Huntr/x “Golden”
  3. Lady Gaga “Abracadabra”
  4. Taylor Swift “The Fate of Ophelia”
  5. Sabrina Carpenter “Manchild”
  6. Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae “What I Want”
  7. Olivia Dean “Man I Need”
  8. Chappell Roan “The Subway”
  9. Tate McRae “Sports Car”
  10. Justin Bieber “Daisies”

2024

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

2023

  1. Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
  2. Teddy Swims “Lose Control”
  3. Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
  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. SZA “Kill Bill”
  4. Lizzo “About Damn Time”
  5. SZA “Snooze”
  6. Steve Lacy “Bad Habit”
  7. Sam Smith & Kim Petras “Unholy”
  8. Noah Kahan “Stick Season”
  9. Rema with Selena Gomez “Calm Down”
  10. Jack Harlow “First Class”

2021

  1. The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay”
  2. Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License”
  3. Adele “Easy on Me”
  4. Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U”
  5. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak) “Leave the Door Open”
  6. Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
  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. The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears”
  4. Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP”
  5. Xiao Zhan “Spotlight”
  6. 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood”
  7. BTS “Dynamite”
  8. DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar”
  9. Megan Thee Stallion with Beyoncé “Savage” (remix)
  10. Jawsh 685 with Jason Derulo “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)”

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. Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now”
  9. Jonas Brothers “Sucker”
  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. Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
  4. Rihanna with Drake “Work”
  5. Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills”
  6. The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy”
  7. Pinkfong! “Baby Shark”
  8. Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like”
  9. Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles”
  10. Twenty One Pilots “Heathens”

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. Lukas Graham “7 Years”
  10. Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out”

2014

  1. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
  2. Taylor Swift “Shake It Off”
  3. Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud”
  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. OMI “Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)”
  9. Maroon 5 “Sugar”
  10. Sia “Chandelier”

2013

  1. Pharrell Williams “Happy”
  2. Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines”
  3. John Legend “All of Me”
  4. Lorde “Royals”
  5. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”
  6. Katy Perry “Roar”
  7. One Republic “Counting Stars”
  8. Idina Menzel “Let It Go”
  9. Avici with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!”
  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. Adele “Someone Like You”
  4. LMFAO, Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem”
  5. Rihanna & Calvin Harris “We Found Love”
  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. Lady Gaga “Bad Romance”
  3. Ke$ha “Tik Tok”
  4. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  5. Jay-Z with Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind”
  6. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.”
  7. Train “Hey, Soul Sister”
  8. Flo Rida with Ke$ha “Right Round”
  9. Owl City “Fireflies”
  10. Miley Cyrus “The Climb”

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. M.I.A. “Paper Planes”
  7. Soulja Boy Tell’em “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
  8. Kid Rock “All Summer Long”
  9. Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend”
  10. Sara Bareilles “Love Song”

2006

  1. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
  2. Justin Timberlake “Sexyback”
  3. Amy Winehouse “Rehab”
  4. Shakira & Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie”
  5. One Republic with Timbaland “Apologize”
  6. Beyoncé “Irreplaceable”
  7. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars”
  8. Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)”
  9. Nelly Furtado & Timbaland “Promiscuous”
  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. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
  6. Gorillaz with De La Soul “Feel Good Inc.”
  7. Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
  8. The Fray “How to Save a Life”
  9. 50 Cent with Olivia “Candy Shop”
  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. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone”
  6. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl”
  7. Mario “Let Me Love You”
  8. Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying”
  9. Snoop Dogg with Pharrell Williams “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
  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. Linkin Park “Numb”

2002

  1. Eminem “Lose Yourself”
  2. 50 Cent “In Da Club”
  3. Nelly “Hot in Herre”
  4. Johnny Cash “Hurt”
  5. Coldplay “Clocks”
  6. Nelly & Kelly Rowland “Dilemma”
  7. Avril Lavigne “Complicated”
  8. Eminem “Without Me”
  9. Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why”
  10. Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish”

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. Alan Jackson “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning”
  9. The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl”
  10. Staind “It’s Been Awhile”

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. Eminem “The Real Slim Shady”
  7. Destiny’s Child “Independent Women”
  8. 3 Doors Down “Kryptonite”
  9. Coldplay “Yellow”
  10. Linkin Park “In the End”

1999

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

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. Korn “Freak on a Leash”

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. Natalie Imbruglia “Torn”
  6. Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  7. Blur “Song 2”
  8. Green Day “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
  9. Savage Garden “Truly, Madly, Deeply”
  10. Hanson “Mmmbop”

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. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home”
  10. Eric Clapton “Change the World”

1995

  1. Oasis “Wonderwall”
  2. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
  3. Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise”
  4. No Doubt “Don’t Speak”
  5. Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know”
  6. Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day”
  7. Alanis Morissette “Ironic”
  8. Pulp “Common People”
  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. Oasis “Live Forever”
  5. Seal “Kiss from a Rose”
  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. Nirvana “All Apologies”
  8. Mariah Carey “Dreamlover”
  9. Mariah Carey “Hero”
  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. Sir Mix-a-Lot “Baby Got Back”
  5. Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven”
  6. House of Pain “Jump Around”
  7. R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts”
  8. Dr. Dre with Snoop Doggy Dogg “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang”
  9. Kris Kross “Jump”
  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. Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable”
  10. Nirvana “Come As You Are”

1990

  1. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U”
  2. Madonna “Vogue”
  3. Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  4. MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This”
  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. Young MC “Bust a Move”
  7. Alannah Myles “Black Velvet”
  8. Neil Young “Rockin’ in the Free World”
  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. The La’s “There She Goes”
  4. Bette Midler “Wind Beneath My Wings”
  5. Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
  6. Metallica “One”
  7. Tone Lōc “Wild Thing”
  8. Bangles “Eternal Flame”
  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. Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party”
  5. Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer”
  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. Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)”
  8. Lionel Richie “Say You Say Me”
  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. Prince & the Revolution “Purple Rain”
  5. George Michael “Careless Whisper”
  6. Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”
  7. Bruce Springsteen “Born in the U.S.A.”
  8. Stevie Wonder “I Just Called to Say I Love You”
  9. Madonna “Like a Virgin”
  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. Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
  5. Lionel Richie “All Night Long (All Night)”
  6. New Order “Blue Monday”
  7. Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
  8. Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time”
  9. Irene Cara “Flashdance...What a Feelin’”
  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. Michael Jackson “Thriller”
  9. John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack and Diane”
  10. Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing”

1981

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

1980

  1. AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
  2. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
  3. Queen “Another One Bites the Dust”
  4. Kool & the Gang “Celebration”
  5. Blondie “Call Me”
  6. AC/DC “Back in Black”
  7. Kenny Rogers “Lady”
  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. Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb”
  7. Lipps Inc. “Funkytown”
  8. The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight”
  9. Chic “Good Times”
  10. Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”

1978

  1. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive”
  2. Blondie “Heart of Glass”
  3. Village People “Y.M.C.A.”
  4. Chic “Le Freak”
  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. The Police “Roxanne”
  9. Earth, Wind & Fire “September”
  10. Gerry Rafferty “Baker Street”

1977

  1. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”
  2. Queen “We Will Rock You” / “We Are the Champions”
  3. David Bowie “Heroes”
  4. Bee Gees “How Deep Is Your Love”
  5. Bee Gees “Night Fever”
  6. Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life”
  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. Elton John & Kiki Dee “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
  10. Chicago “If You Leave Me Now”

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. Kiss “Rock and Roll All Nite”
  9. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road”
  10. Van McCoy “The Hustle”

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. Barry White “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”
  9. Joe Cocker “You Are So Beautiful”
  10. Harry Chapin “Cat’s in the Cradle”

1973

  1. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird”
  2. Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On”
  3. Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song”
  4. Billy Joel “Piano Man”
  5. Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were”
  6. Aerosmith “Dream On”
  7. Tony Orlando & Dawn “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”
  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. Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
  8. Bill Withers “Lean on Me”
  9. Eagles “Take It Easy”
  10. Gilbert O’Sullivan “Alone Again (Naturally)”

1971

  1. John Lennon “Imagine”
  2. Don McLean “American Pie”
  3. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”
  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. The Who “Baba O’Riley”
  10. Harry Nilsson “Without You”

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. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary”
  5. David Bowie “Space Oddity”
  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 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. Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild”
  6. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
  7. Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson”
  8. The Band “The Weight”
  9. Sly & the Family Stone “Everyday People”
  10. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man”

1967

  1. Aretha Franklin “Respect”
  2. The Doors “Light My Fire”
  3. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World”
  4. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
  5. Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl”
  6. The Beatles “A Day in the Life”
  7. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever”
  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 Beatles “Eleanor Rigby”
  9. The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love”
  10. The Troggs “Wild Thing”

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. Simon & Garfunkel “The Sound of Silence”
  7. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man”
  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 Temptations “My Girl”
  3. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun”
  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 Beatles “She Loves You”
  4. The Ronettes “Be My Baby”
  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. Little Eva “The Loco-Motion”
  3. Booker T. & the MGs “Green Onions”
  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”
  10. Frank Ifield “I Remember You”

1961

  1. Ben E. King “Stand by Me”
  2. Patsy Cline “Crazy”
  3. Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
  4. Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River”
  5. Del Shannon “Runaway”
  6. The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
  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 “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
  5. Elvis Presley “It’s Now or Never”
  6. The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
  7. The Drifters “Save the Last Dance for Me”
  8. The Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown”
  9. Percy Faith “Theme from A Summer Place”
  10. Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely”

1959

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

1958

  1. The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
  2. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”
  3. The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream”
  4. Ritchie Valens “La Bamba”
  5. Harry Simeone Chorale “The Little Drummer Boy”
  6. Domenico Modugno “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue)”
  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. Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
  5. Elvis Presley “All Shook Up”
  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 “Don’t Be Cruel”
  3. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog”
  4. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line”
  5. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender”
  6. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes”
  7. Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?”
  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. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas”
  2. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons”
  3. Little Richard “Tutti Frutti”
  4. The Platters “Only You and You Alone”
  5. The Platters “The Great Pretender”
  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. Erroll Garner Trio “Misty”
  8. The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely”
  9. Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man”
  10. Kitty Kalen “Little Things Mean a Lot”

1953

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

1952

  1. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me”
  2. Rosemary Clooney “Tenderly”
  3. Jimmy Boyd “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
  4. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune”
  5. Vera Lynn “Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart”
  6. Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
  7. Al Martino “Here in My Heart”
  8. Perry Como & the Ramblers “Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes”
  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. Tony Bennett “Because of You”
  5. Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart”
  6. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88”
  7. Nat “King” Cole “Too Young”
  8. The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man”
  9. Perry Como “If (They Made Me a King)”
  10. Eddy Howard “Sin (It’s No Sin)”

1950

  1. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz”
  2. The Weavers “Goodnight Irene”
  3. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa”
  4. Bill Snyder “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”
  5. Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme”
  6. The Andrews Sisters “I Wanna Be Loved by You”
  7. Edith Piaf “La Vie En Rose”
  8. Hank Snow “I’m Movin’ On”
  9. Teresa Brewer & the Dixieland All Stars “Music! Music! Music!”
  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 “Ghost 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 with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra “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. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood “On a Slow Boat to China”
  8. Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)”
  9. Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters “A Little Bird Told Me”
  10. Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow”

1947

  1. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart”
  2. Francis Craig & Bob Lamm “Near You”
  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. Red Ingle with Jo Stafford “Temptation (Tim-Tay-Shun)”
  10. 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. Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie”
  5. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Oh What It Seemed to Be”
  6. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own”
  7. James Baskett “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”
  8. Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More”
  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. Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra with Ruth Gaylor “My Funny Valentine”
  4. Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive”
  5. Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe”
  6. Dick Haymes “It Might As Well Be Spring”
  7. Woody Herman “Laura”
  8. Perry Como “If I Loved You”
  9. Perry Como “Till the End of Time”
  10. Vaughn Monroe “There! I’ve Said It Again”

1944

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

1943

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

1942

  1. Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas”
  2. Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By”
  3. The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll”
  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. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway “Jingle Jangle Jingle”
  9. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle & the Modernaires “Moonlight Cocktail”
  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. Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)”
  4. Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train”
  5. The Andrews Sisters “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. Benny Goodman with Louise Tobin “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
  9. Harry James & Dick Haymes “I’ll Get by As Long As I Have You”
  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. Cliff Edwards & the Ken Darby Singers “When You Wish Upon a Star”
  4. Artie Shaw “Frenesi”
  5. Glenn Miller “Tuxedo Junction”
  6. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread”
  7. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine”
  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. Benny Goodman “Don’t Be That Way”
  8. Bing Crosby “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby”
  9. Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “My Reverie”
  10. Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music Maestro Please!”

1937

  1. Fred Astaire “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”
  2. The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You’re Grand)”
  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. Billie Holiday “Summertime”
  2. Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight”
  3. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
  4. Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You”
  5. Benny Goodman “Stompin’ at the Savoy”
  6. Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)”
  7. Fred Astaire “A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song)”
  8. Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody”
  9. Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone”
  10. Shep Fields & Charles Chester “Did I Remember?”

1935

  1. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers “Cheek to Cheek”
  2. Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven”
  3. Bing Crosby & the Guardsmen Quartette “Silent Night”
  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. Richard Himber & Stuart Allen “Just One of Those Things”
  8. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset”
  9. Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “When I Grow Too Old to Dream”
  10. Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Blue Moon”

1934

  1. Guy Lombardo “Winter Wonderland”
  2. Ethel Merman “I Get a Kick Out of You”
  3. Eddy Duchin & Lew Sherwood “Let's Fall in Love”
  4. Leo Reisman “The Continental (You Kiss While We're Dancing)”
  5. The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”
  6. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “The Very Thought of You”
  7. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “Stars Fell on Alabama”
  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. Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Dudley Mecum “42nd Street”
  4. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “Lover”
  5. George Olsen with Jim Morrison “The Last Round-Up”
  6. Ted Lewis “Lazy Bones”
  7. Bing Crosby “You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me”
  8. Paul Whiteman with Bob Lawrence “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
  9. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel”
  10. Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “Love Is the Sweetest Thing”

1932

  1. Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “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. Bing Crosby & the Mills Brothers “Dinah”
  6. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “How Deep Is the Ocean?”
  7. Paul Whiteman with Irene Taylor “Willow Weep for Me”
  8. Ted Lewis “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town”
  9. Leo Reisman & Frances Maddux “Paradise”
  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. Libby Holman “Love for Sale”
  5. Wayne King & Ernie Burchill “Goodnight Sweetheart”
  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. Red Nichols “I Got Rhythm”
  3. Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again”
  4. Harry Richman “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
  5. Leo Reisman “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
  6. Red Nichols & Dick Robertson “Embraceable You”
  7. Rudy Vallee “Stein Song (University of Maine)”
  8. Don Azpiazu & Arturo Machin “The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)”
  9. Duke Ellington & the Rhythm Boys “Three Little Words”
  10. Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “Little White Lies”

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. Ruth Etting “Love Me Or Leave Me”
  6. Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?”
  7. Maurice Chevalier “Louise”
  8. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “Lover Come Back to Me”
  9. Rudy Vallee “Honey”
  10. Gene Austin “Carolina Moon”

1928

  1. Cliff Edwards “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”
  2. Marion Harris “The Man I Love”
  3. Gene Austin “My Melancholy Baby”
  4. Al Jolson “Sonny Boy”
  5. Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines “West End Blues”
  6. Gene Austin “Ramona”
  7. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)”
  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. Paul Whiteman & the Rhythm Boys “Side by Side”
  7. Guy Lombardo & Weston Vaughan “Charmaine”
  8. Red Nichols “Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider”
  9. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)”
  10. Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals “Stardust”

1926

  1. George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce “Always”
  2. Gertrude Lawrence “Someone to Watch Over Me”
  3. Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird”
  4. Jan Garber & Benny Davis “Baby Face”
  5. Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young “The Birth of the Blues”
  6. Gene Austin “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue”
  7. Al Jolson “I'm Sitting on Top of the World”
  8. Paul Whiteman with Frankly Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)”
  9. George Olsen “Who?”
  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. Ben Selvin “Manhattan”
  5. Eddie Cantor “If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie”
  6. Gene Austin & Billy Carpenter “Yes Sir! That’s My Baby”
  7. Isham Jones with Ray Miller & Frank Bessinger “I'll See You in My Dreams”
  8. Al Jolson “All Alone”
  9. Paul Whiteman “Oh Lady Be Good”
  10. Louise Homer “America the Beautiful”

1924

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

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. Benny Krueger “I Cried for You”
  6. Isham Jones “Swingin’ Down the Lane”
  7. Paul Whiteman “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers”
  8. Billy Murray & Ed Smalle “That Old Gang of Mine”
  9. Paul Whiteman “Bambalina”
  10. Art Landy “Dreamy Melody”

1922

  1. Henry Burr “My Buddy”
  2. Al Jolson “Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo-Bye!)”
  3. Peerless Quartet “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans”
  4. Ben Selvin “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)”
  5. Paul Whiteman “Three O’Clock in the Morning”
  6. Fanny Brice “Second Hand Rose”
  7. Marion Harris “I’m Just Wild About Harry”
  8. Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)”
  9. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean”
  10. 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. Ray Miller “The Sheik of Araby”
  6. Ted Lewis “All by Myself”
  7. Marion Harris “Look for the Silver Lining”
  8. U.S. Naval Academy Band “Anchors Aweigh (U.S. Navy Song)”
  9. Paul Whiteman “Say It with Music”
  10. Isham Jones “Wabash Blues”

1920

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

1919

  1. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again”
  2. Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone”
  3. John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody”
  4. Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”
  5. Nora Bayes “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree?”
  6. Henry Burr “Beautiful Ohio”
  7. Henry Burr “Oh! What a Pal Was Mary”
  8. Arthur Fields “Ja Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing Jing Jing)”
  9. Al Jolson “I’ll Say She Does”
  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. Ernestine Schumann-Heink “Danny Boy”
  6. Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)”
  7. Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)”
  8. Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough “Smiles”
  9. Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra “Hello Central, Give Me No Man’s Land”
  10. Irving Kauffman & the Columbia Quartet “Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here”

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. Conway's Band “Indiana”
  7. American Quartet “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!”
  8. Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Livery Stable Blues”
  9. American Quartet “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!”
  10. John McCormack “Send Me Away with a Smile”

1916

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

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. American Quartet “Chinatown, My Chinatown”
  7. Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!”
  8. James F. Harrison (as Frederick J. Wheeler) “Keep the Home Fires Burning”
  9. James F. Harrison & James Reed “There’s a Long, Long Trail”
  10. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Close to My Heart”

1914

  1. Prince's Orchestra “Ballin’ the Jack”
  2. Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea”
  3. Prince's Orchestra “The Memphis Blues”
  4. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon”
  5. American Quartet “When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose”
  6. American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”
  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. Chauncey Olcott “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)”
  4. Henry Burr “When I Lost You”
  5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’”
  6. Ada Jones “Row Row Row!”
  7. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine”
  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. Elsie Baker (aka Edna Brown) “I Love You Truly”
  3. Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee”
  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. Peerless Quartet “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad”
  7. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)”
  8. Will Oakland “Mother Machree”
  9. John McCormack “I’m Falling in Love with Someone”
  10. Billy Murray “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”

1910

  1. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”
  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. Ada Jones & the American Quartet “Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon”
  8. Harry MacDonough with Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own”
  9. Billy Murray “Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)”
  10. Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (aka Fisk Jubilee Singers) “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

1909

  1. Harry MacDonough with Miss Walton “Shine on Harvest Moon”
  2. Henry Burr “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”
  3. Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet”
  4. Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson “Good Evening, Caroline”
  5. Ada Jones “I've Got Rings on My Fingers”
  6. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine on Harvest Moon”
  7. Ada Jones & the Victor Light Opera Co. “The Yama Yama Man”
  8. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew”
  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. Alan Turner “As Long As the World Rolls On”
  5. Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Sunbonnet Sue”
  6. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D”
  7. Billy Murray “Under Any Old Flag at All”
  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. Byron G. Harlan “The Good Old U.S.A.”
  7. Ada Jones “Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won’t Let Me)”
  8. Byron G. Harlan “Daddy’s Little Girl”
  9. Corinne Morgan “So Long, Mary”
  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. Harland “Would You Care?”
  8. Byron G. Harlan “Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door”
  9. Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Dearie”
  10. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Coax Me”

1904

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

1903

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

1902

  1. Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home”
  2. Scott Joplin “The Entertainer”
  3. Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree”
  4. J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon”
  5. Len Spencer “The Arkansaw Traveler”
  6. Harry MacDonough “The Mansion of Aching Hearts”
  7. J.W. Myers “Way Down in Old Indiana”
  8. Bert Williams & George Walker “Good Morning Carrie”
  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. Jere Mahoney “For Old Times’ Sake”
  6. Harry MacDonough “When the Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie, Dear”
  7. Will Denny “Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me”
  8. Harry MacDonough “The Tale of a Bumble Bee”
  9. Harry MacDonough “I’ll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again”
  10. Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh’s Huskin’ Bee Dance”

1900

  1. Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage”
  2. George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen”
  3. Vess Ossman “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (instrumental)
  4. Albert Campbell “Ma Blushin’ Rosie”
  5. Arthur Collins “Ma Tiger Lily”
  6. Arthur Collins “Mandy Lee”
  7. Harry MacDonough “I Can't Tell You Why I Love You But I Do”
  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. traditional “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain”
  4. George J. Gaskin “My Wild Irish Rose”
  5. Len Spencer “Hello Ma Baby”
  6. Arthur Collins “I'd Leave My Happy Home for You”
  7. Len Spencer “Smoky Mokes”
  8. Arthur Collins “I Guess I'll Have to Telegraph My Baby”
  9. Albert Campbell “My Wild Irish Rose”
  10. Dan Quinn “Curse of the Dreamer”

1898

  1. Edison Male Quartette “My Old Kentucky Home”
  2. Dan Quinn “At a Georgia Camp Meeting”
  3. George J. Gaskin “Break the News to Mother”
  4. George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home”
  5. Steve Porter “On the Banks of the Wabash”
  6. James Thornton (music/lyrics) “When You Were Sweet Sixteen”
  7. Vess Ossman “At a Georgia Camp Meeting”
  8. Billy Golden “Bye Bye My Honey”
  9. Sousa’s Band “The Star-Spangled Banner”
  10. George J. Gaskin “She Was Bred in Old Kentucky”

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 “Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose”
  4. Len Spencer “A Hot Time in the Old Town”
  5. Tom Turpin “Harlem Rag”
  6. George J. Gaskin “Sweet Rosie O’Grady”
  7. George J. Gaskin “A Hot Time in the Old Town”
  8. J.W. Myers “Goodbye Dolly Gray”
  9. Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (new version)
  10. Len Spencer “My Gal Is a High-Born Lady”

1896

  1. James Black and Katharine Purvis (writers) “When the Saints Go Marching In”
  2. Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town”
  3. traditional “Red River Valley”
  4. Dan Quinn “In the Baggage Coach Ahead”
  5. George J. Gaskin “Down in Poverty Row”
  6. Len Spencer “You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down”
  7. George J. Gaskin “The Sunshine of Paradise Alley”
  8. George J. Gaskin “She May Have Seen Better Days”
  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 Sidewalks of New York”
  3. Dan Quinn “The Band Played On”
  4. Sousa’s Band “El Capitan March”
  5. J.W. Myers “The Sidewalks of New York”
  6. George J. Gaskin “The Sidewalks of New York”
  7. Dan Quinn “The Little Lost Child”
  8. J.W. Myers “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me”
  9. Len Spencer “The Bully (aka ‘Dat New Bully’)”
  10. Sousa’s Band “The Washington Post March”

1894

  1. traditional “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
  2. Silas Leachman “Dem Golden Slippers”
  3. Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)”
  4. United States Marine Band “The Liberty Bell”
  5. Edward M. Favor “Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye”
  6. George J. Gaskin “Sweet Marie”
  7. Edward M. Favor “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)”
  8. Dan Quinn “And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back”
  9. Manhansett Quartette “The Old Oaken Bucket”
  10. Dan Quinn “My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl”
  11. 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. John Yorke Atlee “After the Ball”
  5. Jules Levy “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
  6. George J. Gaskin “Oh Promise Me”
  7. George J. Gaskin “The Fatal Wedding”
  8. Len Spencer “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”
  9. Dan Quinn “The Bowery”
  10. J.W. Myers “Two Little Girls in Blue”

1892

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

1891

  1. Billy Golden “Turkey in the Straw”
  2. Frank Kidson (first published by) “Scarborough Fair”
  3. George J. Gaskin “Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill”
  4. George Washington Johnson “The Laughing Song”
  5. John Yorke Atlee “Home Sweet Home”
  6. George Washington Johnson “The Whistling Coon”
  7. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey As a Physician”
  8. Dan Kelly “Pat Kelly As a Police Justice”
  9. Len Spencer “Little ‘Iza Loves You”
  10. Eugene Field (lyrics), Ethelbert Nevin (music) “Little Boy Blue”

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 “Home Sweet Home”
  8. Emile Berliner (unknown performer recorded by Berliner) “Mary Hade a Little Lamb/Humpty Dumpty”
  9. (composer unknown) “Reveille”
  10. Emile Berliner “The Lord’s Prayer”
  11. United States Marine Band “Wedding March from Midsummer’s Night Dream”

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First posted 1/7/2024; last updated 1/26/2026.

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