1916 — Full Chart

All 152 songs that charted in 1916, ranked.

#	Artist	Title	Peak
1	Henry Burr	M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)	1
2	Henry Burr	Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)	1
3	Prince’s Orchestra	Hello, Hawaii, How are You?	1
4	John McCormack	The Sunshine of Your Smile	1
5	James F. Harrison & James Reed	There’s a Long, Long Trail	1
6	Orpheus Quartet	Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yester Day	1
7	Harry Macdonough	The Girl on the Magazine	1
8	Charles Harrison	Ireland Must be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There	1
9	Marguerite Farrell	If I Knock the “L” Out of Kelly	1
10	Al Jolson	I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Isles	1
11	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	There’s a Quaker Down in Quaker Town	1
12	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That’s Love in Honolulu)	1
13	John McCormack	Somewhere a Voice is Calling	1
14	James F. Harrison (as Frederick J. Wheeler)	Keep the Home Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)	1
15	Prince’s Orchestra	The Star-Spangled Banner	1
16	Peerless Quartet	The Lights of My Home Town	1
17	Columbia Mixed Double Quartet	America	1
18	Billy Murray	I Love a Piano	1
19	Billy Murray	Pretty Baby	1
20	Al Jolson	Yaaka Hoola Hickey Doola	2
21	Arthur Fields	He’s Got a Bungalow	2
22	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	Is There Still Room for Me ‘Neath the Old Apple Tree?	2
23	Al Jolson	You’re a Dangerous Girl	2
24	Billy Murray	Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?	2
25	James F. Harrison & James Reed	We’ll Build a Little Home in the U.S.A.	2
26	Elizabeth Wheeler	At the End of a Beautiful Day	2
27	James F. Harrison (as Frederick J. Wheeler)	Wake Up, America!	2
28	John McCormack	The Old Refrain	2
29	Sophie Braslau	Birds in the Night (A Lullaby)	2
30	Geoffrey O’Hara	All I Want is a Cottage, Some Roses, and You	2
31	Enrico Caruso	O Sole Mio (My Sunshine)	3
32	American Quartet	Along the Rocky Road to Dublin	3
33	Olive Kline & Lambert Murphy	Have a Heart	3
34	Victor Military Band	Missouri Waltz	3
35	Alma Gluck	My Old Kentucky Home	3
36	Al Jolson	Down Where the Swanne River Flows	3
37	Charles King & Elizabeth Brice	My Own Iona	3
38	Olive Kline & Elsie Baker & Marguerite Dunlap	Go to Sleep, My Dusky Baby	3
39	Harry Macdonough	Araby	3
40	John McCormack	Cradle Song 1915	3
41	John McCormack	Tales of Hoffman: Barcolle (“Belle Nuit” - Oh Night of Love	3
42	Bert Williams	Never Mo’	3
43	Al Jolson	I’m Saving Up the Means to Get to New Orleans	3
44	Peerless Quartet	I Think We’ve Got Another Washington (Wilson is His Name)	3
45	Walter Van Brunt	I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen	3
46	Billy Murray & Elsie Baker	Simple Melody	4
47	Sam Ash	America, I Love You	4
48	Enrico Caruso	Santa Lucia (Neapolitan Folk Song)	4
49	Reed Miller & Frederick Wheeler	Keep the Home Fires Burning	4
50	Billy Murray	There’s a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl	4
51	Prince’s Orchestra	The Missouri Waltz	4
52	Nora Bayes	For Dixie and Uncle Sam	4
53	Henry Burr	My Mother’s Rosary	4
54	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	The Wedding of the Sunshine and the Rose	4
55	Joseph Cawthorn	I Can Dance with Everybody but my Wife	4
56	Alma Gluck	The Nightingale Song	4
57	John McCormack	Beautiful Isle of Somewhere	4
58	Prince’s Orchestra	Joe Turner Blues	4
59	Prince’s Orchestra	St. Louis Blues	4
60	Taylor Trio	Old Folks at Home	4
61	Reinald Werrenrath	Neapolitan Love Song	4
62	James F. Harrison & James Reed	There’s Someone More Lonesome Than You	4
63	John Barnes Wells	Memories	4
64	Olive Kline (as Alice Green)	Kiss Me Again	5
65	American Quartet	America, I Love You!	5
66	Peerless Quartet	There’s a Quaker Down in Quaker Town	5
67	Elsie Baker & Reed Miller	Fair Hawaii	5
68	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	Through These Wonderful Glasses of Mine	5
69	Columbia Mixed Double Quartet	The Battle Hymn of the Republic	5
70	Joe Hayman	Cohen Telephones from Brighton	5
71	Prince’s Orchestra	Babes in the Wood	5
72	Prince’s Orchestra	Back Home in Tennessee	5
73	Maggie Teyte	A Little Love, a Little Kiss	5
74	Columbia Mixed Quartet	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	5
75	Geoffrey O’Hara	They Made it Twice as Nice as Paradise (And They Called it Dixieland)	5
76	Prince’s Orchestra	So Long, Letty	5
77	Bert Williams	Everybody	5
78	Alma Gluck	Sing Me to Sleep	6
79	Elsie Baker	There’s a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway	6
80	Blue & White Marimba Band	Marimba March	6
81	Henry Burr & Helen Clark	When You’re in Love with Someone Who is Not in Love with You	6
82	Enrico Caruso	Chantique De Noel (Holy Night)	6
83	Olive Kline & Lambert Murphy	So Long, Letty	6
84	Prince’s Orchestra	Underneath the Stars	6
85	Marguerite Farrell	By the Sad Luana Shore	6
86	Imperial Quartet of Chicago	Perfect Day	6
87	Al Jolson	Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?	6
88	Ada Jones	Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What to Do!	6
89	Fritz Kreisler	The Old Refrain	6
90	Billy Murray & Irving Kaufman	Are You from Dixie? (‘Cause I’m From Dixie Too)	6
91	Victor Light Opera Co.	Gems from “Very Good, Eddie”	6
92	George Wilton Ballard	M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)	7
93	Nora Bayes	Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?	7
94	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula	7
95	Peerless Quartet	Arrah Go On, I’m Going Back to Oregon	7
96	Peerless Quartet	Dear Old Dreamy Honolulu Town	7
97	Peerless Quartet	When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukelele	7
98	Sterling Trio	In Florida Among the Palms	7
99	Sterling Trio	On the South Sea Isle	7
100	Frank Tinney	Frank Tinney’s First Record	7
101	Fred Van Eps	Hill and Dale	7
102	Emilio DeGogorza	Noche Serena (Calm Night)	7
103	Anna Chandler	You Can’t Get Along with ‘Em or Without ‘Em	5
104	Ernest Ball	Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You	8
105	Anna Chandler	When You’re Down in Louisville	8
106	Marion Harris	I’m Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia	8
107	Lambert Murphy	Underneath the Stars	8
108	Gladys Rice & Walter Van Brunt	Babes in the Wood	8
109	Anna Chandler	Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?	8
110	Pietro Deiro	Over the Waves Waltz	8
111	Louis Gravieure	Prologue from “Pagliacci”	8
112	Grace Kerns & Reed Miller	They Didn’t Believe Me	8
113	George MacFarlane	My Own Home Town In Ireland	8
114	Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards	1813 Overture, Part 2	8
114	Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards	1812 Overture, Part 1	8
115	Taylor Trio	The Rosary	8
116	American Quartet	Siam	9
117	Henry Burr	Baby Shoes	9
118	Henry Burr	Memories	9
119	Henry Burr	What a Wonderful Mother You’d Be	9
120	Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan	You’d Never Know That Old Home Town of Mine	9
121	Conway’s Band	Have a Heart - “Ziegfeld Follies of 1915” Medley	9
122	Emilio DeGogorza	Non E Ver (’tis Not True)	9
123	Glen Ellison	Face to Face with the Girl in My Dreams	9
124	Geraldine Farrar	Mighty Lak’ a Rose	9
125	Charles Harrison	She’s the Daughter of Mother Machree	9
126	Russell Hunting (as Michael Casey)	Casey’s Description of His Fight	9
127	Jaudas’ Society Orchestra	Missouri Waltz	9
128	Ada Jones	If I Knock the “L” Out of Kelly	9
129	Margaret Keyes & Columbia Stellar Quartet	Some Day I’ll Wander Back Again	9
130	Harry Lauder	My Bonny Bonny Jean	9
131	Hipolito Lazaro	Aida: Celeste Aida (Radiant Aida)	9
132	Lyric Quartet	My Dreamy China Lady	9
133	John McCormack	A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call it Ireland)	9
134	Billy Murray	When I Get Back to the U.S.A.	9
135	M.J. O’Connell	It’s a Hundred to One You’re in Love	9
136	Kathleen Parlow	Thais: Meditation	9
137	Peerless Quartet	The Honolulu Blues	9
138	Arthur Pryor’s Band	National Emblem March (New Version)	9
139	Walter Van Brunt & Gladys Rice	They Didn’t Believe Me	9
140	Mischa Elman	Spanish Dance	10
141	Morton Harvey	Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday	10
142	Charles King & Elizabeth Brice	That Hula Hula	10
143	Lucy Isabelle Marsh	Just A-Wearyin’ for You	10
144	Reginald McAll	Hallelujah Chorus	10
145	Reed Miller	Love, Here is My Heart	10
146	Billy Murray & Elsie Baker	Some Sort of Somebody	10
147	Billy Murray	When You Drop Off at Cairo, Illinois	10
148	Peerless Quartet	Welcome, Honey, to Your Old Plantation Home	10
149	Prince’s Orchestra	The Hesitating Blues	10
150	Manuel Romain	She’s the Daughter of Mother Machree	10
151	Victor Military Band	Stop, Look, and Listen (Medley)	10

← Back to 1916