1921 — Full Chart
All 164 songs that charted in 1921, ranked.
| # | Artist | Title | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Wang Wang Blues | 1 |
| 2 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Wabash Blues | 1 |
| 3 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Cherie | 1 |
| 4 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Say it with Music | 1 |
| 5 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Song of India | 1 |
| 6 | Eddie Cantor | Margie | 1 |
| 7 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | My Mammy | 1 |
| 8 | Ted Lewis & His Band | All By Myself | 1 |
| 9 | Al Jolson | O-H-I-O (O My! O!) | 1 |
| 10 | Nora Bayes (Charles Prince Orchestra) | Make Believe | 1 |
| 11 | Marion Harris | Look for the Silver Lining | 1 |
| 12 | Van & Schenck | Ain’t We got Fun? | 1 |
| 13 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Bright Eyes | 2 |
| 14 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | My Man (Mon Homme) | 2 |
| 15 | Al Jolson | Avalon | 2 |
| 16 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Make Believe | 2 |
| 17 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Second Hand Rose | 2 |
| 18 | Billy Murray & Billy Jones | (Down by the) O-Hi-O (I’ve Got the Sweetest Little O, My! O!) | 2 |
| 19 | Art Hickman & His Orchestra | Darling | 2 |
| 20 | Henry Burr & Albert Campbell | Feather Your Nest | 2 |
| 21 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Home Again Blues | 2 |
| 22 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | Crazy Blues | 3 |
| 23 | Marion Harris | I’m Nobody’s Baby | 3 |
| 24 | Marion Harris | I Ain’t Got Nobody | 3 |
| 25 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | St. Louis Blues | 3 |
| 26 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Grieving for You - Feather Your Nest | 3 |
| 27 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Sweetheart | 3 |
| 28 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Palesteena | 3 |
| 29 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Royal Garden Blues | 3 |
| 30 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Learn to Smile | 3 |
| 31 | Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra | Mazie | 3 |
| 32 | Carl Fenton & His Orchestra | Cherie | 3 |
| 33 | Marion Harris | Sweet Mama (Papa’s Gettin’ Mad) | 4 |
| 34 | Reinald Werrenrath | Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses | 4 |
| 35 | Benny Krueger & His Orchestra | Spread Yo’ Stuff | 4 |
| 36 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Margie | 4 |
| 37 | John McCormack | Learn to Smile | 4 |
| 38 | Peerless Quartet | My Mammy | 4 |
| 39 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down | 4 |
| 40 | Frank Crumit | I’m a Lonesome Little Raindrop | 4 |
| 41 | Leo Reisman & His Orchestra | Bright Eyes | 4 |
| 42 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Do You Ever Think of Me? | 4 |
| 43 | Zez Confrey & His Orchestra | Kitten On the Keys | 5 |
| 44 | Billy Jones | Peggy O’Neil | 5 |
| 45 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Make Believe | 5 |
| 46 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Caresses | 5 |
| 47 | All-Star Trio | Moonbeams | 5 |
| 48 | American Quartet | Strut, Miss Lizzie | 5 |
| 49 | Nora Bayes | Cherie | 5 |
| 50 | Benson Orchestra of Chicago | San | 5 |
| 51 | Henry Burr | Old Pal, Why Don’t You Answer Me? | 5 |
| 52 | Eddie Cantor | Palesteena | 5 |
| 53 | Frank Crumit | All By Myself | 5 |
| 54 | Marion Harris | Beale Street Blues | 5 |
| 55 | Van & Schenck | All She’d Say was “Umh-Hum” | 5 |
| 56 | Ethel Waters | Down Home Blues | 5 |
| 57 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere | 5 |
| 58 | Paul Biese Trio | Rose | 5 |
| 59 | Enrico Caruso | Dreams of Long Ago | 5 |
| 60 | Frank Crumit | Three O’Clock in the Morning | 5 |
| 61 | Billy Jones & Ernest Hare | Down Yonder | 5 |
| 62 | Al Jolson | Scandanavia | 5 |
| 63 | Peerless Quartet | Auld Lang Syne | 5 |
| 64 | Homer Rodeheaver & Virginia Asher | The Old Rugged Cross | 5 |
| 65 | Aileen Stanley | All By Myself | 5 |
| 66 | Sterling Trio | I Found a Rose in the Devil’s Garden | 5 |
| 67 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Humming | 5 |
| 68 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Cherie | 5 |
| 69 | Charles Harrison | Who’ll be the Next One (To Cry Over You) | 6 |
| 70 | Benny Krueger & His Orchestra | All By Myself | 6 |
| 71 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Say It with Music | 6 |
| 72 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | Dangerous Blues | 6 |
| 73 | Happy Six | Do You Ever Think of Me? | 6 |
| 74 | Olive Kline & Elsie Baker | Where the Lazy Mississippi Flows | 6 |
| 75 | Aileen Stanley | Home Again Blues | 6 |
| 76 | Paul Biese Trio & Frank Crumit | I Ain’t Nobody’s Darling | 7 |
| 77 | Carl Fenton & His Orchestra | Rosie | 7 |
| 78 | Charles Harrison & Edna Brown (Elsie Baker) | Look for the Silver Lining | 7 |
| 79 | Peerless Quartet | Broadway Rose | 7 |
| 80 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | I Never Knew | 7 |
| 81 | Nora Bayes | The Japanese Sandman | 7 |
| 82 | Benson Orchestra of Chicago | Crooning | 7 |
| 83 | Paul Biese Trio & Frank Crumit | Timbuctoo | 7 |
| 84 | Frank Crumit | I Used to Love You, but It’s All Over Now | 7 |
| 85 | Frank Crumit | Margie | 7 |
| 86 | Green Brothers Novelty Band | Learning | 7 |
| 87 | Marion Harris | Grieving for You | 7 |
| 88 | Charles Hart & Elliot Shaw | There’s Only One Pal, After All | 7 |
| 89 | Charles Hart & Elliot Shaw | Wyoming (Lullaby) | 7 |
| 90 | Prince’s Orchestra | Beautiful Annabelle Lee | 7 |
| 91 | Aileen Stanley | My Man (Mon Homme) | 7 |
| 92 | Sam Ash | I Found a Rose in the Devil’s Garden | 8 |
| 93 | Eubie Blake | Bandana Days | 8 |
| 94 | Marion Harris | I’m a Jazz Vampire | 8 |
| 95 | Charles Harrison | Peggy O’Neil | 8 |
| 96 | Lambert Murphy | Waiting for the Sun to Come Out | 8 |
| 97 | Peerless Quartet | I Used to Love You, but It’s all Over Now | 8 |
| 98 | Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor) | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 | 8 |
| 99 | Prince’s Orchestra | Deep in Your Eyes | 8 |
| 100 | Aileen Stanley | My Mammy | 8 |
| 101 | John Steel | Whispering | 8 |
| 102 | Nora Bayes | Just Snap Your Fingers at Care | 8 |
| 103 | Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra | My Mammy | 8 |
| 104 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Whip-Poor-Will | 8 |
| 105 | Edwin Dale | If You Only Knew | 9 |
| 106 | Benson Orchestra of Chicago | Ain’t We Got Fun? | 9 |
| 107 | Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor) | The Young Prince and the Young Princess | 9 |
| 108 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | Fare Thee Honey Blues | 9 |
| 109 | Efrem Zimbalist | Serenade | 9 |
| 110 | Sam Ash | They Needed a Song Bird in Heaven (So God Took Caruso Away) | 9 |
| 111 | Nora Bayes | Saturday | 9 |
| 112 | Nora Bayes | Tea Leaves | 9 |
| 113 | Henry Burr | You Made Me Forget How to Cry | 9 |
| 114 | Coon-Sanders Orchestra | Some Little Bird | 9 |
| 115 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Fair One | 9 |
| 116 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Sally, Won’t You Come Back? | 9 |
| 117 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Jazz Me Blues | 9 |
| 118 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Margie | 9 |
| 119 | Peerless Quartet | Down Yonder | 9 |
| 120 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Now and Then | 9 |
| 121 | Cal Stewart | Uncle Josh Buys a Victrola | 9 |
| 122 | Vernon Country Club Band | Whip-Poor-Will - Look for the Silver Lining (Medley) | 9 |
| 123 | Nora Bayes | Broadway Blues | 10 |
| 124 | Nora Bayes | Why Worry? | 10 |
| 125 | Paul Biese Trio & Frank Crumit | Mimi | 10 |
| 126 | Paul Biese Trio | Toddle | 10 |
| 127 | Frank Crumit | Home Again Blues | 10 |
| 128 | Ted Lewis & His Band | I Love You, Sunday | 10 |
| 129 | Broadway Quartet | My Sunny Tennessee | 11 |
| 130 | Henry Burr & Albert Campbell | Carolina Lullaby | 11 |
| 131 | Henry Burr & Albert Campbell | Mandalay | 11 |
| 132 | Columbia Stellar Quartet | My Gal Sal | 11 |
| 133 | Frank Crumit | Palesteena | 11 |
| 134 | Charles Harrison | You Made Me Forget How to Cry | 11 |
| 135 | Art Hickman & His Orchestra | Avalon | 11 |
| 136 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Look for the Silver Lining | 11 |
| 137 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | My Mammy | 11 |
| 138 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Love Me | 11 |
| 139 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Make Believe | 11 |
| 140 | Aileen Stanley | I’m Nobody’s Baby | 11 |
| 141 | Nora Bayes | In a Little Front Parlor | 12 |
| 142 | Charles Hackett | Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses | 12 |
| 143 | Ernest Hare | Tuck Me to Sleep (In My Old ‘Tucky Home) | 12 |
| 144 | Art Hickman & His Orchestra | Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere | 12 |
| 145 | Lewis James & Elizabeth Spencer | Look for the Silver Lining | 12 |
| 146 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Sweet Mama (Papa’s Gettin’ Mad) | 12 |
| 147 | Aileen Stanley | Singin’ the Blues | 12 |
| 148 | Arturo Toscanini & La Scala Orchestra | Symphony in E Flat Major (Finale) | 12 |
| 149 | Enrico Caruso | A Dream | 13 |
| 150 | Vaughn De Leath | All By Myself | 13 |
| 151 | Carl Fenton & His Orchestra | Learn to Smile | 13 |
| 152 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | Royal Garden Blues | 13 |
| 153 | U.S. Naval Academy Band | Anchors Aweigh | 13 |
| 154 | Anthony Urato | They Needed a Song Bird in Heaven (So God Took Caruso Away) | 13 |
| 155 | Frank Crumit | Oh Me! Oh My! | 14 |
| 156 | Green Brothers Novelty Band | Mazie | 14 |
| 157 | Reed Miller | Love Will Find the Way | 14 |
| 158 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | All By Myself | 14 |
| 159 | Frank Ferera | Hawaiian Medley | 15 |
| 160 | Billy Jones | Tuck Me to Sleep (In My Old ‘Tucky Home) | 15 |
| 161 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Tired of Me | 15 |
| 162 | Lucy Isabelle Marsh | Deep in Your Eyes | 15 |
| 163 | Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra | Cherie | 15 |
| 164 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | The Japanese Sandman | 15 |