Songs · Billboard Hot 100

California Dreamin

The Mamas & The Papas

Entered Jan 8, 1966 · peaked at #4 on Mar 12, 1966 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 30, 1966

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Billboard Hot 100 · #4, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #9, 19 wk
Record Power
32.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
January 1966 – April 1966

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
The Mamas & The Papasprimary100%31.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 12, 1966 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Ballad Of The Green BeretsSSgt Barry Sadler
  2. #2These Boots Are Made For WalkinNancy Sinatra
  3. #3Listen PeopleHerman's Hermits
  4. #4California DreaminThe Mamas & The Papas
  5. #5Elusive ButterflyBob Lind
  6. #619th Nervous BreakdownThe Rolling Stones
  7. #7Nowhere ManThe Beatles
  8. #8Lightnin' StrikesLou Christie
  9. #9I Fought The LawBobby Fuller Four
  10. #10Homeward BoundSimon & Garfunkel

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