Top Ragtime Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
883
Fats Waller
Ain't Misbehavin'
Stride
1929
2
1677
James P. Johnson
Carolina Shout
Stride
1922
3
2455
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Tiger Rag
Dixieland
1918
4
2778
Jelly Roll Morton
King Porter Stomp
Stride
1924
5
2966
Fats Waller
Honeysuckle Rose
Stride
Vocal Jazz
1934
6
3155
Fats Waller
Handful of Keys
Stride
1929
7
3197
Erroll Garner
Misty
Stride
Bebop
1954
8
4025
Art Tatum
Tea for Two
Stride
1933
9
5003
Jim Europe's 369th Infantry "Hellfighters" Band
Memphis Blues
1919
10
5340
Art Tatum
Tiger Rag
Stride
1933
11
5658
Mary Lou Williams
Night Life
Stride
1930
12
6495
Jelly Roll Morton
The Pearls
Dixieland
1924
13
6992
Earl Hines
Monday Date
1929
14
7101
Clarence Williams' Blue Five
Cake Walking Babies from Home
Dixieland
1925
15
7549
Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1911
16
7580
Vess L. Ossman
Honolulu Cake Walk
Cakewalk
1899
17
7644
Fats Waller
Viper's Drag
1935
18
7775
Jelly Roll Morton
Mr. Jelly Lord
1924
19
7946
Erroll Garner
I'll Remember April
Stride
Bebop
1956
20
8476
Europe's Society Orchestra
Castle House Rag (Castles in Europe)
1914
21
9559
Vess L. Ossman
A Bunch of Rags
1898
22
9707
Ossman-Dudley Trio
St. Louis Tickle
1906
23
9749
U.S. Marine Band
Maple Leaf Rag
1910
24
9770
Fats Waller
Two Sleepy People
Stride
Vocal Jazz
1938
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Arthur Collins
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
1902
Fred Van Eps
Whipped Cream
1913
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Blues
1924
Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra
Twelfth Street Rag
Dixieland
1948
Art Tatum
Humoresque
Stride
1940
Vess L. Ossman
Smoky Mokes
1899
Ted Lewis
When My Baby Smiles at Me
1920
Thelonious Monk
I Should Care
Stride
Hard Bop
,
Vocal Jazz
1949
Jelly Roll Morton
Wolverine Blues (Joys)
Stride
1923
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Sensation Rag
Dixieland
1918
James P. Johnson
Keep Off the Grass
Stride
1922
Cecil Gant
I Wonder
Stride
Boogie Woogie
,
Piano Blues
1944
Lou Reed
New York Telephone Conversation
Novelty Piano
Novelty
,
Singer/Songwriter
,
Vaudeville
1972