I will update the data periodically, so we will have an idea on how the rank distribution evolves over time, and if there is any change. The statistics in the graphs and the tables below consider all the competitive games in any region. There are several websites that gather and share these data, and after examining the most reliable ones, I concluded that there are almost no differences among their tools. Retrieved August 5, 2011.Finally, Riot released their API for Valorant, so starting from December 2020 I will provide official rank data based on the whole player base. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 5, 2009. "Soft Serve: Charting the aural promise of ice cream truck music" (PDF). ^ Neely, Daniel Tannehill (Spring 2005).King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era, p. "The Ragtime Revival-A Belated Ode to Composer Scott".
^ Kronenberger, John (August 11, 1974).^ "Charis Music Group, compilation of cue sheets from the American Top 40 radio Show" (PDF).^ " Scott Joplin Piano Rags Nonesuch Records CD (w/bonus tracks)".xxiv, "Scott Joplin: Black-American Classicist", Introduction to Scott Joplin Collected Piano Works, New York Public Library, 1981 Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. ^ a b c d Sullivan, Steve (May 12, 2017).There is a version of this song played by Lang Lang in PlayStation 3 racing video game Gran Turismo 5.List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1974.In the United States, "The Entertainer" is one of many songs commonly played by ice cream trucks to attract attention. Thanks to the film and its score, Joplin's work became appreciated in both the popular and classical music worlds, becoming (in the words of music magazine Record World), the "classical phenomenon of the decade". His version of "The Entertainer" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 18, 1974, prompting The New York Times to write, "the whole nation has begun to take notice". Marvin Hamlisch lightly adapted and orchestrated Joplin's music for the 1973 film The Sting, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. In 1979 Alan Rich in the New York Magazine wrote that by giving artists like Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on disk, Nonesuch Records "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival". The album was nominated in 1971 for two Grammy Award categories, Best Album Notes and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), but at the ceremony on March 14, 1972, Rifkin did not win in any category. Separately both volumes had been on the chart for sixty-four weeks. The Billboard "Best-Selling Classical LPs" chart for September 28, 1974, has the record at #5, with the follow-up Volume 2 at #4, and a combined set of both volumes at #3. It sold 100,000 copies in its first year and eventually became Nonesuch's first million-selling record.
In November 1970, Joshua Rifkin released a recording called Scott Joplin: Piano Rags on the classical label Nonesuch, which featured as its second track "The Entertainer". The centerpiece of the original cover art featured a minstrel show caricature of a black man in formal attire on a theater stage. The copyright on "The Entertainer" was registered December 29, 1902, along with two other Joplin rags, "A Breeze from Alabama" and " Elite Syncopations", all three of which were published by John Stark & Son of St. Stark issued an arrangement of the piece for two mandolins and a guitar. Suggested by the rag's dedication to "James Brown and his Mandolin Club", author Rudi Blesh wrote that "some of the melodies recall the pluckings and the fast tremolos of the little steel-stringed plectrum instruments". "It is a jingling work of a very original character, embracing various strains of a retentive character which set the foot in spontaneous action and leave an indelible imprint on the tympanum".
Rosenfeld described "The Entertainer" as "the best and most euphonious" of Joplin's compositions to that point. Louis Globe-Democrat, contemporary composer Monroe H. The B section contains an indication that the melody is to be played an octave higher on the repeat. It is primarily set in the key of C major however, for the C section (commonly referred to as the 'Trio'), it modulates to F major, then transitions back to C major for the D section. Its structure is: Intro–AA–BB–A–CC–Intro2–DD. "The Entertainer" is sub-titled "A Rag Time Two Step", which was a form of dance popular until about 1911, and a style which was common among rags written at the time.