Artist
Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith appears once in our Blues list, placing as high as No. 4. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Blues
- Year
- 1920
- Highest placing
- No. 4 in Blues
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Crazy Blues
1920 · OKeh
Ranked No. 4 in Blues
The first blues record ever released, and it sold in numbers nobody in the industry had predicted. An entire market for Black music was discovered by accident, in one afternoon.