1920 — Full Chart

All 165 songs that charted in 1920, ranked.

#	Artist	Title	Peak
1	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Dardanella	1
2	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Whispering	1
3	Al Jolson	Swanee (from Sinbad)	1
4	Ted Lewis & His Band	When My Baby Smiles at Me	1
5	John Steel	The Love Nest	1
6	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Hold Me	1
7	Marion Harris	St. Louis Blues	1
8	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	The Japanese Sandman	1
9	Al Jolson	I’ve Got My Captain Working for Me Now	1
10	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	The Love Nest	1
11	Edith Day (Rosario Bourdon Orchestra)	Alice Blue Gown	1
12	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Tell Me, Little Gypsy	2
13	Elizabeth Spencer & Charles Hart	Let the Rest of the World Go By	2
14	Van & Schenck	After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It	2
15	Charles Harrison	I’ll be with You in Apple Blossom Time	2
16	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Sweet and Low	2
17	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Peggy	2
18	Bert Williams	When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine	2
19	Kentucky Serenaders	Rose of Washington Square	3
20	Eddie Cantor	You’d Be Surprised	3
21	Charles Harrison	Pretty Kitty Kelly	3
22	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	That Naughty Waltz	3
23	Bert Williams	Ten Little Bottles	3
24	Nora Bayes	Just Like a Gypsy	3
25	Frank Crumit	Oh! By Jingo! Oh! By Gee!	3
26	Carl Fenton & His Orchestra	Cuban Moon	3
27	Al Jolson	Tell Me	3
28	Al Jolson	You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet	3
29	Billy Murray	I’ll See You In C-U-B-A	3
30	John Steel	Tell Me, Little Gypsy	3
31	Edith Day	Irene	3
32	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	My Isle of Golden Dreams	4
33	Charles Harrison & Lewis James	Golden Gate	4
34	Isham Jones & His Orchestra	Kismet	4
35	Ted Lewis & His Band	I’ll See You in C-U-B-A	4
36	Paul Biese Trio & Frank Crumit	Chili Bean	4
37	Paul Biese Trio	Mystery	4
38	Irving Kaufman & Jack Kaufman	Nobody Knows (and Nobody Seems to Care)	4
39	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Afghanistan	4
40	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	Yellow Dog Blues	4
41	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	I’ll be with You in Apple Blossom Time	5
42	Mabel Garrison	Hymn to the Sun (Coq D’ Or)	5
43	John McCormack	That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone	5
44	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Rose Room	5
45	Al Jolson	Chloe	5
46	Olive Kline	I Might Be Your Once-in-a-While	5
47	Peerless Quartet	I’d Love to Fall Asleep and Wake up in My Mammy’s Arms	5
48	Prince’s Dance Orchestra	Dardanella	5
49	John Steel	The Girls of My Dreams	5
50	Henry Burr	Rose of Washington Square	5
51	Marion Harris	Left All Alone Again Blues	5
52	Al Jolson	In Sweet September	5
53	Al Jolson	That Wonderful Kid from Madrid	5
54	Ted Lewis & His Band	Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me)	5
55	John McCormack	When Night Descends	5
56	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Mandy	5
57	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Wond’ring	5
58	Bert Williams	Elder Eatmore’s Sermon on Generosity	5
59	All-Star Trio	I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep	5
60	Frank Crumit	My Little Bimbo Down on the Bimbo Isle	6
61	John McCormack	Your Eyes Have Told Me So	6
62	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	The Love Nest	6
63	Nora Bayes	Oh How I Laugh When I Think That I Cried Over You	6
64	Charles Harrison	That Old Irish Mother of Mine	6
65	John McCormack	The Barefoot Trail	6
66	Van & Schenck	All the Boys Love Mary	6
67	Charles Harrison	Broken Blossoms	6
68	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Cuban Moon	6
69	Al Jolson	I Gave Her That	6
70	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	Alexandria	6
71	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	Irene	6
72	Bert Williams	Sorry I Ain’t Got It	6
73	Nora Bayes	Everybody Calls Me Honey	7
74	Nora Bayes	Prohibition Blues	7
75	Billy Murray	Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys	7
76	Gene Rodemich & His Orchestra	Margie	7
77	Frances Alda	The Bells of St Mary’s	7
78	Frank Crumit	So Long, Oo-Long (How Long You Gonna Be Gone)	7
79	Green Brothers Novelty Band	La Veeda	7
80	Jascha Heifetz	Introduction and Tarantelle	7
81	Prince’s Orchestra	Manyana	7
82	William Robyn	I’m in Heaven When I’m in My Mother’s Arms	7
83	John Steel	The Hand That Rocked the Cradle Rules My Heart	7
84	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Whispering	8
85	All-Star Trio	Poor Little Butterfly is a Fly Gal Now	8
86	All-Star Trio	You’d be Surprised	8
87	Nora Bayes	Patches	8
88	Hawaiian Trio	Alabama Moon	8
89	Jascha Heifetz	Nocturne in E Flat	8
90	Irving Kaufman	You’d be Surprised	8
91	John McCormack	Thank God for a Garden	8
92	Shannon Four	Wond’ring	8
93	Happy Six	My Sahara Rose	8
94	Billy Murray & Rachel Grant (Gladys Rice)	When My Baby Smiles at Me	8
95	Nora Bayes	The Argentines, the Portugese, and the Greeks	9
96	Henry Burr	Daddy, You’ve Been a Mother to Me	9
97	Eddie Cantor	When It Comes To Lovin’ the Girls, I’m Way Ahead of The Times	9
98	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	A Young Man’s Fancy	9
99	Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor)	Invitation to the Waltz	9
100	Henry Burr	You’re the Only Girl That Made Me Cry	9
101	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	Where the Lanterns Glow	9
102	Eddie Cantor	All the Boys Love Mary	9
103	Eddie Cantor	Snoops, the Lawyer	9
104	Enrico Caruso	Love Me or Not	9
105	Columbia Orchestra	William Tell Overture	9
106	Conway’s Band	Tents of Arabs	9
107	Billy Murray & Ed Smalle	Dardanella Blues	9
108	Peerless Quartet	When I’m Gone You’ll Soon Forget	9
109	Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra	Dardanella	9
110	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Venetian Moon	9
111	Bert Williams	Save a Little Dram for Me	9
112	Edward Allen	Oh! What a Pal was Mary	10
113	Eddy Brown	That Naughty Waltz	10
114	Henry Burr	Was There Ever a Pal Like You?	10
115	Pablo Casals	The Swan	10
116	Columbia Orchestra	That Naughty Waltz	10
117	Ernest Hare	Old Pal, Why Don’t You Answer Me?	10
118	Charles Harrison	Waiting	10
119	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	Wonderful Pal	10
120	George Meader	Wonderful Pal	10
121	Billy Murray	He Went in Like a Lion and Came out Like a Lamb	10
122	Prince’s Orchestra	Afghanistan	10
123	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Prelude in G Minor, Op 23, No. 5	10
124	Homer Rodeheaver & Virginia Asher	When I Look in His Face	10
125	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	Whose Baby are You?	10
126	Fred Van Eps (as Van Eps Trio)	Where the Lanterns Glow	10
127	All-Star Trio	Swanee	11
128	Henry Burr	Just for Me and Mary	11
129	Henry Burr & Frank Croxton	Weeping Willow Lane	11
130	Henry Burr	When My Baby Smiles at Me	11
131	Eddie Cantor	The Argentines, the Portugese, and the Greeks	11
132	Marion Harris	Oh! Judge (He Treats Me Mean)	11
133	Lewis James	Old Pal (Why Don’t You Answer Me?	11
134	Reed Miller	I’ll be with You in Apple Blossom Time	11
135	Billy Murray	That Wonderful Kid from Madrid	11
136	Peerless Quartet	Swanee	11
137	Peerless Quartet	Who’ll Take the Place of Mary?	11
138	Henry Burr & John Meyer	I Never Knew	12
139	Henry Burr	I’m In Heaven When I’m in My Mother’s Arms	12
140	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	Dardanella	12
141	Lewis James	Daddy, You’ve Been a Mother to Me	12
142	Isham Jones & His Orchestra	A Young Man’s Fancy	12
143	Billy Murray & Rachel Grant (Gladys Rice)	Marion (You’ll Soon Be Marryin’ Me)	12
144	Billy Murray	Oh By Jingo! Oh by Gee! You’re the Only Girl for Me	12
145	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	Cuban Moon	12
146	Victor Light Opera Co.	Gems from “Irene”	12
147	Henry Burr & John Meyer	Carolina Sunshine	13
148	Frank Ferera	Beautiful Hawaii	13
149	Art Hickman & His Orchestra	The Hesitating Blues	13
150	Ted Lewis & His Band	O (Oh!)	13
151	Billy Murray	Poor Little Butterfly (Is a Fly Gal Now)	13
152	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	In Your Arms	13
153	Elsie Baker	Sweet and Low	14
154	Lewis James & Charles Hart	Let the Rest of the World Go By	14
155	Jack Kaufman	I’ll See You in C-U-B-A	14
156	Ted Lewis & His Band	Bo-La-Bo	14
157	Billy Murray & Rachel Grant (Gladys Rice)	Oh! How I Laugh When I Think That I Cried Over You	14
158	Ben Selvin & His Orchestra	Dance-O-Mania	14
159	Cal Stewart	Uncle Josh Takes the Census	14
160	Reinald Werrenrath	Gypsy Love Song	14
161	Arthur Collins	The Argentines, the Portugese, and the Greeks	15
162	Green Brothers Novelty Band	Kismet	15
163	Jascha Heifetz	Meditation	15
164	Fritz Kreisler	Gypsy Serenade	15
165	Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra	Taxi	15

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