Showing posts with label pop. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 7, 2026

BMI Icon Awards

BMI Awards:

2002-2026

BMI is an organization which collects royalties on behalf of artists. It gives out annual awards to artists in various categories, including country, Latin, London, pop, and urban (later changed to R&B/hip-hop), in honor of what the website calls a songwriter’s “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.”

While these awards are generally referred to as BMI Icon Awards, there are other times references are made to BMI President’s Awards and there is also the BMI Champions Award. Whether these represent different criteria is anyone’s guess due to the failure of the BMI site to make details clear on these awards. It isn’t even clear when the awards were started, although the earliest awards found were for 2002. Because of the lack of an easy-access list at BMI or anywhere else, this list has been cobbled together as best as possible but there are bound to be omissions.

See other lifetime achievement awards.

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First posted 3/30/2017; last updated 6/7/2026.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1910-1919

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1910-1919

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1910 to 1919. Songs could have hit #1 on either of these charts:

Numbers following the letter codes indicate how many weeks the song spent at #1 on that chart. Links go to specific lists of the biggest songs of all time for that chart. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been generated by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. Also, the Gardner book indicates only the song title and not a specific artist so the artists identified here are the ones that have the highest ranked Dave’s Music Database version, hit #1 on the Billboard chart as well, and/or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner.

Meanwhile the Sharon Mawer charts are bi-weekly so to reflect a more accurate depiction of how many weeks the song spent at #1, the original # was doubled.

Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here.

1910:

  1. 3/1: Byron G. Harlan “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (SM: 12)
  2. 6/1: Ada Jones “Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” (SM: 4)
  3. 7/1: Elizabeth Wheeler & Harry Anthony “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” (SM: 10)
  4. 9/15: Ada Jones “Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Is the Right Little Girl for Me” (SM: 2)
  5. 10/1: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (SM: 4)
  6. 11/1: Bert Williams “Play That Barber-Shop Chord” (SM: 4)

1911:

  1. 1/1: Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/1: Arthur Clough “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (SM: 6)
  3. 3/15: Ada Jones & Billy Murray with the American Quartet “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” (SM: 4)
  4. 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)” (SM: 10)
  5. 7/15: Arthur Clough & the Brunswick Quartet “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (SM: 10)
  6. 10/1: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (SM: 16)

1912:

  1. 2/1: Billy Murray & the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (SM: 12)
  2. 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Everybody’s Doing It Now” (SM: 10)
  3. 7/15: American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (SM: 8)
  4. 9/15: Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (SM: 14)

1913:

  1. 1/1: Henry Burr “That’s How I Need You” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/1: American Quartet “On the Mississippi” (SM: 4)
  3. 3/1: Ada Jones “Row Row Row!” (SM: 8)
  4. 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’” (SM: 4)
  5. 6/1: Henry Burr “When I Lost You” (SM: 6)
  6. 7/15: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (SM: 6)
  7. 9/1: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (SM: 12)
  8. 12/1: Henry Burr “Peg O’ My Heart” (SM: 6)

1914:

  1. 1/15: Harry MacDonough “There’s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me)” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/15: Billy Murray “He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, to Fix Up His Automobile” (SM: 8)
  3. 4/15: American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (SM: 4)
  4. 5/15: Peerless Quartet “This is the Life” (SM: 6)
  5. 7/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “I Love the Ladies” (SM: 3)
  6. 7/15: Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (SM: 10)
  7. 10/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon” (SM: 2)
  8. 10/15: Prince’s Orchestra “Ballin’ the Jack” (SM: 4)
  9. 11/15: Henry Burr “When You’re a Long, Long Way from Home” (SM: 4)
  10. 12/15: Morton Harvey “I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)” (SM: 4)

1915:

  1. 1/15: John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (SM: 6)
  2. 3/1: Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (SM: 8)
  3. 5/1: George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)” (SM: 12)
  4. 7/1: Peerless Quartet “I’m on My Way to Dublin Bay” (SM: 4)
  5. 9/1: James F. Harrison & James Reed “My Little Dream Girl” (SM: 2)
  6. 9/15: Henry Burr “When I Leave the World Behind” (SM: 4)
  7. 10/15: Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!” (SM: 2)
  8. 11/1: Harry MacDonough “It’s Tulip Time in Holland” (SM: 4)
  9. 12/1: James F. Harrison & James Reed “My Sweet Adair” (SM: 2)
  10. 12/15: Prince’s Orchestra “Back Home in Tennessee” (SM: 6)

1916:

  1. 2/1: Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” (SM: 8)
  2. 4/1: John Barnes Wells “Memories” (SM: 4)
  3. 5/1: Henry Burr “Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)” (SM: 4)
  4. 6/1: Al Jolson “Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula” (SM: 8)
  5. 8/1: Henry Burr “Baby Shoes” (SM: 4)
  6. 9/1: Billy Murray “Pretty Baby” (SM: 12)
  7. 12/1: Billy Murray “There’s a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl” (SM: 4)

1917:

  1. 1/1: Orpheus Quartet “Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/1: Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (SM: 12)
  3. 5/1: Van & Schenk “For Me and My Gal” (SM: 12)
  4. 8/1: Charles Harrison “All the World Will Be Jealous of Me” (SM: 2)
  5. 8/15: American Quartet “Over There” (SM: 22)

1918:

  1. 2/1: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (SM: 8)
  2. 4/1: Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight” (SM: 8)
  3. 6/1: Henry Burr “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (SM: 6)
  4. 7/15: Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)” (SM: 8)
  5. 9/15: Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough “Smiles” (SM: 14)

1919:

  1. 1/1: Charles Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (SM: 2)
  2. 1/15: Charles Hart & Elliott Shaw “Rose of No Man’s Land” (SM: 2)
  3. 2/1: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (SM: 12)
  4. 5/1: Nora Bayes “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree” (SM: 4)
  5. 6/1: Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (SM: 14)
  6. 9/15: John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” (SM: 4)
  7. 10/15: Van & Schenk “Mandy” (SM: 6)
  8. 12/1: Henry Burr “Oh, What a Pal Was Mary” (SM: 6)

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First posted 12/21/2022.

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