Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Monkees

Charting Sep 10, 1966 → Oct 17, 1987 · 129 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 129 wk (20 crowns), UK Singles Chart 90 wk (11 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Colgems Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1967

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
20 crowns
Longest reign 8 weeks (Dec 1966 – Feb 1967) · First crown Nov 1966
UK Singles Chart
11 crowns
Longest reign 8 weeks (Jan–Mar 1967) · First crown Jan 1967
Global Music Power
18 crowns
19662012
Longest reign 8 weeks (Jan–Feb 1967) · First crown Jan 1967

Billboard Hot 100 · 129 wk UK Singles Chart · 90 wk Global Music Power · 159 wk

Peak Power: 3.43%; week of Feb 11, 1967
Career Power: 237; share-weeks
Crowns: 20; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 141; September 1966 – September 1967
Peak Five Years: 223; June 1965 – June 1970
Top-five weeks: 42; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 129; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.76%; week of Aug 19, 1967
Comebacks: 0; none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

20 records · 237 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I'm A BelieverApple Music	#1December 1966	15	December 1966 – March 1967	43.2	43.2
Daydream BelieverApple Music	#1December 1967	16	November 1967 – November 1986	36.5	36.3
Last Train To ClarksvilleApple Music	#1November 1966	15	September 1966 – December 1966	35.1	35.2
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit YouApple Music	#2April 1967	10	March 1967 – May 1967	25.1	24.7
Pleasant Valley SundayApple Music	#3August 1967	10	July 1967 – September 1967	21.6	22.1
ValleriApple Music	#3March 1968	10	March 1968 – May 1968	21.1	21.0
That Was Then, This Is NowApple Music	#20August 1986	14	July 1986 – October 1986	13.0	12.8
WordsApple Music	#11September 1967	9	July 1967 – September 1967	10.2	14.2
D. W. WashburnApple Music	#19July 1968	7	June 1968 – July 1968	9.1	9.1
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' StoneApple Music	#20January 1967	8	December 1966 – February 1967	5.7	8.8
Tear Drop CityApple Music	#56March 1969	7	February 1969 – April 1969	2.9	2.9
Tapioca TundraApple Music	#34March 1968	6	March 1968 – April 1968	2.8	4.3
It's Nice To Be With YouApple Music	#51July 1968	7	June 1968 – July 1968	2.5	3.8
Porpoise SongApple Music	#62October 1968	6	October 1968 – November 1968	2.3	2.3
The Girl I Knew SomewhereApple Music	#39April 1967	5	March 1967 – April 1967	2.2	3.4
Listen To The BandApple Music	#63July 1969	8	June 1969 – July 1969	2.2	2.1
Good Clean FunApple Music	#82October 1969	5	September 1969 – October 1969	0.7	0.7
Heart And SoulApple Music	#87October 1987	4	September 1987 – October 1987	0.7	0.6
Someday ManApple Music	#81May 1969	2	May 1969 – May 1969	0.4	0.4
Oh My MyApple Music	#98June 1970	2	June 1970 – June 1970	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1966 in music →

The Monkees's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1966 to September 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.