Top Vocal Jazz Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
35
 Billie Holiday Strange Fruit 1939
2
521
 Frank Sinatra I've Got You Under My Skin 1956
3
602
 Chet Baker My Funny Valentine 1954
4
621
 Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World Traditional Pop 1967
5
623
 Julie London Cry Me a River Standards 1955
6
771
 Billie Holiday God Bless the Child 1941
7
1075
 Frank Sinatra One for My Baby 1958
8
1087
 "Tennessee" Ernie Ford Sixteen Tons Country Boogie, Rhythm & Blues 1955
9
1173
 Les Brown & His Orchestra Sentimental Journey Big Band, Traditional Pop 1944
10
1174
 Lena Horne Stormy Weather 1942
11
1225
 Nat King Cole (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 1946
12
1233
 Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain Film Soundtrack, Show Tunes, Traditional Pop 1952
13
1378
 Peggy Lee Fever 1958
14
1398
 Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares for Me 1958
15
1872
 Nat King Cole Nature Boy Standards 1947
16
1909
 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Summertime Standards 1957
17
1962
 Chick Webb & His Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald A-Tisket, A-Tasket Swing 1938
18
2108
 Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam Soul Jazz, Vaudeville Blues 1964
19
2330
 Louis Armstrong St. James Infirmary Dixieland 1928
20
2341
 Fred Astaire They Can't Take That Away from Me Standards 1937
21
2516
 Billie Holiday The Man I Love Standards 1940
22
2703
 Ethel Waters Stormy Weather Standards 1933
23
2704
 Nat King Cole Straighten Up and Fly Right Standards 1944
24
2753
 Louis Armstrong St. Louis Blues Dixieland 1929
25
2777
 Dinah Washington Mad About the Boy Traditional Pop 1952
26
2815
 Ella Fitzgerald Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye Standards 1956
27
2821
 Sarah Vaughan Tenderly Traditional Pop 1947
28
2852
 Norah Jones Don't Know Why Adult Contemporary, Jazz Pop 2002
29
2966
 Fats Waller Honeysuckle Rose Stride 1934
30
2976
 Johnny Ace Pledging My Love Rhythm & Blues, Traditional Pop 1954
31
3053
 Harry James & His Orchestra feat. Frank Sinatra All or Nothing at All Standards 1940
32
3191
 Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 1955
33
3324
 Nina Simone Sinnerman Rhythm & Blues, Soul Jazz 1965
34
3408
 Nina Simone I Loves You, Porgy 1958
35
3693
 Benny Goodman & His Orchestra with Martha Tilton and Ziggy And the Angels Sing Big Band 1939
36
3742
 Billie Holiday Body and Soul 1940
37
3852
 Betty Hutton It Had to Be You Big Band 1944
38
3862
 Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday 1941
39
3879
 Billie Holiday Fine and Mellow 1939
40
3922
 Louis Armstrong (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue 1929
41
3928
 Björk It's Oh So Quiet Swing Revival 1995
42
3986
 Nat King Cole Unforgettable Traditional Pop 1951
43
4009
 Ella Fitzgerald Oh, Lady Be Good! 1947
44
4028
 Frank Sinatra I Get a Kick out of You Standards 1954
45
4323
 Louis Armstrong Ain't Misbehavin' 1929
46
4442
 Tony Bennett Cold, Cold Heart Traditional Pop 1951
47
4505
 Frank Sinatra Fly Me to the Moon Standards 1964
48
4576
 Frank Sinatra Someone to Watch Over Me 1946
49
4601
 Harry Richman Puttin' On the Ritz Big Band 1930
50
4613
 Jo Stafford You Belong to Me Traditional Pop 1952
51
4860
 Billie Holiday Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 1945
52
4985
 Ella Fitzgerald Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) Standards 1956
53
5051
 Louis Armstrong Hello, Dolly! Jazz Pop 1964
54
5177
 Sarah Vaughan Lullaby of Birdland 1955
55
5185
 Louis Armstrong Mack the Knife 1955
56
5246
 Bessie Smith Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out Vaudeville Blues 1929
57
5408
 Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers Lovesick Blues Vaudeville Blues 1928
58
5503
 Radiohead Life in a Glasshouse Jazz-Rock 2001
59
5612
 Ella Fitzgerald Mack the Knife Standards 1960
60
5726
 Frank Sinatra I've Got the World on a String Standards 1953
61
5773
 Frank Sinatra Night and Day Standards 1942
62
5861
 Nina Simone Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair 1959
63
5872
 Louis Armstrong I Can't Give You Anything But Love Dixieland 1929
64
5916
 Johnny Mercer Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive 1944
65
5928
 Glenn Miller A String of Pearls Big Band 1941
66
6103
 Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo Big Band, Swing 1941
67
6156
 Kay Starr Wheel of Fortune Traditional Pop 1952
68
6389
 King Cole Trio Sweet Lorraine 1941
69
6396
 Frank Sinatra (Theme from) New York, New York Traditional Pop 1980
70
6461
 Van Morrison The Way Young Lovers Do Jazz Pop, Singer/Songwriter 1968
71
6492
 Fred Astaire A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song) Traditional Pop 1936
72
6539
 Glenn Miller That Old Black Magic Big Band 1943
73
6543
 Della Reese Don't You Know Soul Jazz 1959
74
6816
 Billie Holiday He’s Funny That Way 1937
75
6833
 Tom Waits Alice Dark Jazz, Singer/Songwriter 2002
76
6920
 Frank Sinatra The Lady Is a Tramp Standards 1958
77
7095
 Ethel Waters Dinah 1925
78
7293
 Duke Ellington I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good Big Band 1941
79
7350
 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan Baby, It's Cold Outside 1949
80
7564
 Sarah Vaughan Summertime 1950
81
7638
 Mildred Bailey Rockin' Chair 1932
82
7672
 John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman My One and Only Love 1963
83
7798
 Max Roach Driva' Man Avant-Garde Jazz, Work Songs 1961
84
7993
 Frank Sinatra All the Way Standards 1957
85
8031
 Ethel Waters Am I Blue? Blues 1929
86
8122
 Billie Holiday Love For Sale 1954
87
8157
 Louis Prima and Keely Smith That Old Black Magic Swing 1958
88
8181
 Ella Fitzgerald How High the Moon 1948
89
8376
 The King Cole Trio Embraceable You 1944
90
8383
 Norah Jones Come Away with Me Jazz Pop 2002
91
8525
 Frank Sinatra When Your Lover Has Gone Standards 1955
92
8551
 Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy Until the Real Thing Comes Along Swing 1936
93
8553
 Chet Baker Let's Get Lost Standards 1955
94
8584
 Frank Sinatra You Make Me Feel So Young Standards 1956
95
8591
 Frank Sinatra Luck Be a Lady Traditional Pop 1963
96
8694
 King Pleasure Moody's Mood for Love Bebop, Rhythm & Blues 1952
97
8707
 Tony Bennett Stranger in Paradise Traditional Pop 1953
98
8730
 Teddy Wilson/Billie Holiday What a Little Moonlight Can Do Swing 1935
99
8749
 Frank Sinatra I'm a Fool to Want You Standards 1951
100
8768
 Dinah Washington Baby Get Lost 1949
101
9012
 Johnny Mercer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 1946
102
9050
 Billie Holiday Solitude 1941
103
9296
 Nina Simone I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free 1967
104
9329
 Mose Allison Parchman Farm Piano Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1957
105
9367
 Billie Holiday Summertime Standards 1936
106
9479
 Nina Simone Mr. Bojangles 1971
107
9592
 Frank Sinatra Blues in the Night 1958
108
9701
 Fred Astaire Nice Work If You Can Get It Traditional Pop 1937
109
9729
 Glenn Miller (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo Big Band 1942
110
9770
 Fats Waller Two Sleepy People Stride 1938
111
9844
 Nina Simone Strange Fruit 1965
112
9846
 Harry James & His Orchestra You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) Big Band, Standards 1941
113
9894
 Larry Clinton & His Orchestra My Reverie Traditional Pop 1938
114
9923
 Sarah Vaughan Broken-Hearted Melody Standards 1959

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Willie Nelson Stardust Standards 1978
Frank Sinatra Only the Lonely 1958
Stan Kenton with June Christy Tampico 1945
Eddy Howard & His Orchestra To Each His Own 1946
Margaret Whiting A Tree in the Meadow Traditional Pop 1948
Ella Fitzgerald Someone to Watch Over Me Standards 1950
Rudy Vallée Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Traditional Pop 1932
Billie Holiday All of Me Standards 1941
Ethel Waters Sweet Georgia Brown 1925
Louis Armstrong All of Me 1932
Perry Como Prisoner of Love Traditional Pop 1946
Bessie Smith Gimmie a Pigfoot Vaudeville Blues 1934
Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest Skylark Big Band 1942
Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest I've Heard That Song Before Big Band 1942
Al Jolson Sonny Boy Film Soundtrack, Traditional Pop 1928
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gotta Get Drunk Again)? Swing 1942
Johnnie Ray Walkin' My Baby Back Home Traditional Pop 1952
Rosemary Clooney Come On-a My House Novelty, Traditional Pop 1951
Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys It's Only a Paper Moon Standards 1945
Frank Sinatra Learning the Blues Standards 1955
Nat King Cole It's Only a Paper Moon Standards 1944
Frank Sinatra Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 1945
Louis Armstrong Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 1938
Tommy Dorsey On the Sunny Side of the Street Big Band 1945
Frank Sinatra My Funny Valentine Standards 1954
Frank Sinatra Here's That Rainy Day 1959
Frank Sinatra If I Loved You Standards 1945
Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy Walkin' and Swingin Swing 1936
Tom Waits San Diego Serenade Singer/Songwriter 1974
Thelonious Monk I Should Care Hard Bop, Stride 1949
Marcos Valle Crickets Sing for Anamaria Bossa Nova, Samba 1967
Chet Baker I Fall in Love Too Easily Cool Jazz, Standards 1954
Chet Baker The Thrill Is Gone Cool Jazz, Standards 1954
Georgia Gibbs Kiss of Fire Pop, Tango 1952
King Pleasure Parker's Mood 1954
John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman Lush Life 1963
Carmel Bad Day Blue Eyed Soul, Jazz Pop, Sophisti-Pop 1983
Glenn Miller Moonlight Cocktail Big Band 1942
Jimmy Dorsey Tangerine Big Band, Swing 1942
Jimmy Dorsey Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) Big Band, Rhumba, Traditional Pop 1941
Sarah Vaughan with Tadd Dameron Orchestra If You Could See Me Know 1946
Ella Fitzgerald Miss Otis Regrets Standards 1956
Benny Goodman Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Big Band 1945
Ella Fitzgerald The Man I Love Standards 1959
Frank Sinatra Summer Wind Traditional Pop 1966
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Some Other Time Standards 1975
Ella Fitzgerald Night and Day Standards 1956
Dizzy Gillespie with Sarah Vaughan Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) Bebop 1945
Bessie Smith Young Woman's Blues Vaudeville Blues 1927
Tommy Dorsey feat. Frank Sinatra Without a Song Standards, Swing 1941
Nina Simone Wild Is The Wind Soul 1966
Frank Sinatra Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry 1958
Billie Holiday I'm a Fool to Want You 1958
Annie Ross Twisted 1952
Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees Deep Night Traditional Pop 1929
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Stompin' at the Savoy Standards 1957
Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse The House of Blue Lights Boogie Woogie 1946
Lil Green Why Don't You Do Right? Vaudeville Blues 1941
Nina Simone The Other Woman 1959
Nina Simone Don't Explain Soul Jazz 1966
Mélanie De Biasio Your Freedom Is the End of Me Ambient Pop 2017
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong It Ain't Necessarily So 1959
Frank Sinatra That's Life Traditional Pop 1966
Billie Holiday Blue Moon 1952
Frank Sinatra Embraceable You Standards 1960
Joni Mitchell God Must Be a Boogie Man Jazz Fusion, Singer/Songwriter 1979
Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing Goin' to Chicago Blues Big Band, Swing 1941
Nina Simone Baltimore Pop Soul 1978
Ella Fitzgerald Blue Skies Standards 1959
Frank Sinatra These Foolish Things Standards 1946
Tom Waits Soldier’s Things Piano Blues, Singer/Songwriter 1983
Ella Fitzgerald The Way You Look Tonight Standards 1963
Frank Sinatra All the Things You Are 1947
Frank Sinatra Body and Soul Standards 1949
Frank Sinatra Witchcraft Standards 1958
Frank Sinatra From This Moment On 1957
Frank Sinatra With Every Breath I Take 1957
Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington Indian Summer Big Band 1968
Frank Sinatra Come Rain or Come Shine 1962
Frank Sinatra I Have Dreamed Traditional Pop 1963
Sammy Davis Jr. What Kind of Fool Am I 1962