Among many ragtime artists was James Hubert Blake. Blake was known as Eubie Blake, was an American pianist of ragtime. He wrote Shuffle Along, which was one of the first Broadway musicals written by African Americans. Scott Joplin was another ragtime American composer and pianist that was well known with this genre era. Joplin was dubbed the King of Ragtime and during his career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. His biggest-selling ragtime song in history was “Maple Leaf Rag”.