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The Mamas & the Papas had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "California Dreamin'", the number one song of 1966. The Beatles had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1966. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1966. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated ...
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1966 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles. The original #1 song of 1966, "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas & the Papas, never reached #1 on the weekly charts.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1966 which peaked in 1965 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten November 13 "Let's Hang On!" The Four Seasons: 3 December 11 8 November 20 "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The Byrds: 1 December 4 8 November 27 "I Got You (I Feel Good)" James Brown: 3 December 18 7 December 4 "Over ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
from Billboard December 24, 1966 pg 34 Billboard's year-end list for 1966 included Hot 100 data from January to December 10, 1966, and used an early formula of awarding 100 points to the number one record, then ninety-nine points for number two, ninety-eight points for number three, and so on.
Key ♪ – Number-one single of the year Note: The year-end number-one singles for 1963, 1965 and 1966 were "Surfin' U.S.A." by The Beach Boys, "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, and "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas, respectively, which peaked at numbers 3, 2, and 4, also respectively, and thus are not included here.
"Cherish" is a pop song written by Terry Kirkman and recorded by the Association. [3] Released in 1966, the song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September of that year and remained in the top position for three weeks. [4] Billboard ranked the record as the No. 7 song of 1966, and later as No. 2, after a revision of the year ...
In October of that year, it was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. [7] and on the RPM 100 in Canada. [8] Billboard ranked the record as the #5 song for 1966. [9] It was ranked #213 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010. On November 11, 1966, the single was certified as gold by the RIAA. [10]