1923 — Full Chart
All 159 songs that charted in 1923, ranked.
| # | Artist | Title | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Parade of the Wooden Soldiers | 1 |
| 2 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Swingin’ Down the Lane | 1 |
| 3 | Billy Murray & Ed Smalle | That Old Gang of Mine | 1 |
| 4 | Billy Jones | Yes! We Have No Bananas | 1 |
| 5 | Bessie Smith | Down Hearted Blues | 1 |
| 6 | Al Jolson | Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo’bye) | 1 |
| 7 | Van & Schenck | Carolina in the Morning | 1 |
| 8 | Carl Fenton & His Orchestra | Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses | 1 |
| 9 | Art Landry & His Orchestra | Dreamy Melody | 1 |
| 10 | Selvin’s Orchestra | Yes! We Have No Bananas | 1 |
| 11 | Eddie Cantor | No, No, Nora | 1 |
| 12 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise | 1 |
| 13 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Bambalina | 1 |
| 14 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Crinoline Days | 2 |
| 15 | Eddie Cantor | I’ve Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues | 2 |
| 16 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Indiana Moon | 2 |
| 17 | Ben Bernie & His Orchestra | Swinging Down the Lane | 2 |
| 18 | Billy Jones & Ernest Hare | Barney Google | 2 |
| 19 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Journey’s End | 2 |
| 20 | Benny Krueger & His Orchestra | I Cried for You | 2 |
| 21 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Broken Hearted Melody | 2 |
| 22 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Who’s Sorry Now? | 3 |
| 23 | Virginians | I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | 3 |
| 24 | Henry Burr | Just a Girl That Men Forget | 3 |
| 25 | Great White Way Orchestra (Vocal Billy Murray) | Yes! We have No Bananas | 3 |
| 26 | Marion Harris | Aggravatin’ Papa | 3 |
| 27 | Marion Harris | Rose of the Rio Grande | 3 |
| 28 | Ben Bernie & His Orchestra | Wildflower | 3 |
| 29 | Henry Burr | Faded Love Letters | 3 |
| 30 | Benny Krueger & His Orchestra | That Old Gang of Mine | 3 |
| 31 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Wonderful One | 3 |
| 32 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | When You Walked Out, Someone Else Walked Right In | 4 |
| 33 | Al Jolson | Stella | 4 |
| 34 | John Steel | Lady of the Evening | 4 |
| 35 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Dearest (You’re the Nearest to My Heart) | 4 |
| 36 | Nora Bayes | Lovin’ Sam (Sheik of Alabam') | 4 |
| 37 | Marion Harris | Carolina in the Morning | 4 |
| 38 | Al Jolson | Who Cares? | 4 |
| 39 | Al Jolson | Coal Black Mammy | 4 |
| 40 | Al Jolson | Lost (A Wonderful Girl) | 4 |
| 41 | Al Jolson | Morning Will Come | 5 |
| 42 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Saw Mill River Road | 5 |
| 43 | Abe Lyman & His California Orchestra | Midnight Rose | 5 |
| 44 | Nora Bayes | Homesick | 5 |
| 45 | Marion Harris | Who’s Sorry Now? | 5 |
| 46 | Dolly Kay | You’ve Got to See Mama Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mama at All) | 5 |
| 47 | Bessie Smith | Gulf Coast Blues | 5 |
| 48 | Van & Schenck | You Can Have Him, I Don’t Want Him | 5 |
| 49 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Carolina in the Morning | 5 |
| 50 | Henry Burr | You Know You Belong to Somebody Else (So Why Don’t You Leave Me Alone) | 5 |
| 51 | Clyde Doerr & His Orchestra | Suez | 5 |
| 52 | Ernest Hare | My Buddy | 5 |
| 53 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Ivy, Cling to Me | 5 |
| 54 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Bees’ Knees | 5 |
| 55 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake | 5 |
| 56 | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Some of These Days | 5 |
| 57 | Blossom Seeley | Way Down Yonder in New Orleans | 5 |
| 58 | Van & Schenck | When You and I Were Young, Maggie, Blues | 5 |
| 59 | Van & Schenck | You Tell Her - I Stutter | 5 |
| 60 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Underneath the Mellow Moon | 5 |
| 61 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Way Down Yonder in New Orleans | 5 |
| 62 | Bessie Smith | Baby Won’t You Please Come Home Blues | 6 |
| 63 | Benson Orchestra of Chicago | That Old Gang of Mine | 6 |
| 64 | Carl Fenton & His Orchestra | Indiana Moon | 6 |
| 65 | Great White Way Orchestra | You Gave Me Your Heart (So I Gave You Mine) | 6 |
| 66 | Marion Harris | Dirty Hands! Dirty Face! | 6 |
| 67 | Irving Kaufman (Ben Selvin Orch) | Dirty Hands! Dirty Face! | 6 |
| 68 | Sophie Tucker | You’ve Gotta See Mama Every Night (Or You Can’t See Mama At All) | 6 |
| 69 | Paul Specht & His Orchestra | Roses of Picardy | 6 |
| 70 | Marion Harris | Beside a Babbling Brook | 7 |
| 71 | American Quartet | Nellie Kelly I Love You | 7 |
| 72 | Nora Bayes | Dearest | 7 |
| 73 | Ben Bernie & His Orchestra | Love Tales | 7 |
| 74 | Eddie Cantor | Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, Oh! Golly, I’m in Love | 7 |
| 75 | Arthur Gibbs & His Gang | Louisville Lou | 7 |
| 76 | Marion Harris | Blue (And Broken Hearted) | 7 |
| 77 | Bar Harbor Society Orchestra | Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses | 7 |
| 78 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Aunt Hagar’s Blues | 7 |
| 79 | Gene Rodemich & His Orchestra | Wolverine Blues | 7 |
| 80 | Paul Specht & His Orchestra | When Hearts are Young | 7 |
| 81 | Carl Fenton & His Orchestra | Tell Me a Story | 8 |
| 82 | Billy Jones | Bebe | 8 |
| 83 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Marcheta | 8 |
| 84 | Billy Murray & Ed Smalle | My Sweetie Went Away | 8 |
| 85 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Oriental | 8 |
| 86 | American Quartet | Carolina in the Morning | 8 |
| 87 | Columbians | Sixty Seconds Ev’ry Minute (I Think of You) | 8 |
| 88 | Billy Jones & Ernest Hare | You Tell Her - I Stutter | 8 |
| 89 | Isham Jones & His Orchestra | Farewell Blues | 8 |
| 90 | Benny Krueger & His Orchestra | Yes! We Have No Bananas | 8 |
| 91 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Tiger Rag | 8 |
| 92 | Billy Murray | You Tell Her - I Stutter | 8 |
| 93 | Okeh Laughing Record | The Okeh Laughing Record | 8 |
| 94 | Original Memphis Five | Who’s Sorry Now? | 8 |
| 95 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise | 8 |
| 96 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Three O’Clock in the Morning | 8 |
| 97 | Fiddlin’ John Carson | The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane | 9 |
| 98 | Ray Miller & His Orchestra | Bambalina | 9 |
| 99 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Romany Love | 9 |
| 100 | Nora Bayes | Who Did You Fool, After All? | 9 |
| 101 | Henry Burr | You Remind Me of My Mother | 9 |
| 102 | Eddie Cantor | He Loves It | 9 |
| 103 | W.C. Handy’s Orchestra | St. Louis Blues | 9 |
| 104 | Billy Jones & Ernest Hare | Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo’bye) | 9 |
| 105 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Runnin’ Wild | 9 |
| 106 | Georgie Price | Morning Will Come | 9 |
| 107 | Prince’s Orchestra | Nellie Kelly, I Love You | 9 |
| 108 | Bessie Smith | T’ain’t Nobody’s Biz-Ness if I Do | 9 |
| 109 | Sam Ash | Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses | 10 |
| 110 | Henry Burr | Mary, Dear | 10 |
| 111 | Henry Burr & Albert Campbell | Carry Me Back to My Carolina Home | 10 |
| 112 | Columbia Orchestra | Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses | 10 |
| 113 | Frank Crumit | When You Walked Out, Someone Else Walked Right In | 10 |
| 114 | Jan Garber & His Orchestra | Haunting Blues | 10 |
| 115 | Charles Hart | Midnight Rose | 10 |
| 116 | Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra | Gulf Coast Blues | 10 |
| 117 | Lewis James | I Wish I Had Someone to Cry Over Me | 10 |
| 118 | Dolly Kay | My Sweetie Went Away | 10 |
| 119 | John McCormack | The Lost Chord | 10 |
| 120 | Billy Murray & Ed Smalle | Yankee Doodle Blues | 10 |
| 121 | Paul Specht & His Orchestra | Goodbye | 10 |
| 122 | Sophie Tucker | Aggravatin’ Papa | 10 |
| 123 | Ethel Waters | Georgia Blues | 10 |
| 124 | Belle Baker | I’ve Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues | 11 |
| 125 | Ben Bernie & His Orchestra | My Buddy | 11 |
| 126 | Columbians | Swingin’ Down the Lane | 11 |
| 127 | Georgians | I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | 11 |
| 128 | Lewis James | Who’s Sorry Now? | 11 |
| 129 | Irving Kaufman & Jack Kaufman | That Old Gang of Mine | 11 |
| 130 | Irving Kaufman | Who’s Sorry Now? | 11 |
| 131 | Ted Lewis & His Band | Louisville Lou | 11 |
| 132 | Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra | Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo’bye) | 11 |
| 133 | Billy Murray & Aileen Stanley | You’ve Got to See Mama Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mama At All) | 11 |
| 134 | Paul Specht & His Orchestra | When the Leaves Come Tumbling Down | 11 |
| 135 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | Lady of the Evening | 11 |
| 136 | Billy Jones & Ernest Hare | Oh Gee, Oh Gosh, Oh Golly (I’m In Love) | 12 |
| 137 | Billy Murray | Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake | 12 |
| 138 | Billy Murray & Rachel Grant (Gladys Rice) | I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down | 12 |
| 139 | Georgie Price | Barney Google | 12 |
| 140 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Dirty Hands! Dirty Face! | 12 |
| 141 | Ben Selvin & His Orchestra | Wonderful One | 12 |
| 142 | Bessie Smith | Aggravatin’ Papa | 12 |
| 143 | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra | When Hearts are Young | 12 |
| 144 | Emil Coleman & His Orchestra | Pack Up Your Sins (And Go to the Devil) | 13 |
| 145 | Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra | Away Down East in Maine | 13 |
| 146 | Will Rogers | Will Rogers Tells Traffic Chiefs How to Direct Traffic | 13 |
| 147 | Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake | Down-Hearted Blues | 13 |
| 148 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | You Can Have Him, I Don’t Want Him Blues | 13 |
| 149 | Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds | You’ve Got to See Mama Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mama At All) | 13 |
| 150 | Victor Light Opera Co. | Gems from “Blossom Time” | 13 |
| 151 | Columbians | I Cried for You | 14 |
| 152 | Ted Lewis & His Band | 12th Street Rag | 14 |
| 153 | Shannon Four | Kentucky Babe | 14 |
| 154 | Paul Specht & His Orchestra | Porcelain maid | 14 |
| 155 | Elizabeth Spencer | In Rose Time | 14 |
| 156 | Joe Hayman | Cohen Telephones about His Auto | 15 |
| 157 | Sam Lanin & His Orchestra | Yes! We Have No Bananas | 15 |
| 158 | Harry Reser’s Orchestra | I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | 15 |
| 159 | Fran Westphal & His Orchestra | Bugle Call Rag | 15 |