According to Joel Whitburn's book Pop Memories, which estimates chart rankings for the early decades of the 20th century before charts actually existed, bandleader
Ben Selvin scored 107 hits between 1919 and 1934, a strong enough showing to earn him second place among the top recording artists of the 1920s, behind only
Paul Whiteman. British archival label ASV/Living Era's collection of
Selvin recordings, compiled by
Ray Crick and transcribed from 78 rpm discs originally issued by Victor and Columbia Records, is a representative sampler rather than a greatest-hits album, though chart rankings derived from Whitburn are cited when appropriate in the annotations.