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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 December 24, 1966, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 1 through December 10, 1966.

Title Artist(s)
1 " California Dreamin'" The Mamas & the Papas
2 " 96 Tears" ? and the Mysterians
3 " What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" Jimmy Ruffin
4 " Last Train to Clarksville" The Monkees
5 " Reach Out I'll Be There" Four Tops
6 " These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Nancy Sinatra
7 " Cherish" The Association
8 " Strangers in the Night" Frank Sinatra
9 " Kicks" Paul Revere & the Raiders
10 " The Ballad of the Green Berets" SSgt Barry Sadler
11 " Good Lovin'" The Young Rascals
12 " (You're My) Soul and Inspiration" The Righteous Brothers
13 " You Can't Hurry Love" The Supremes
14 " Sunny" Bobby Hebb
15 " See You in September" The Happenings
16 " Li'l Red Riding Hood" Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
17 " Lightnin' Strikes" Lou Christie
18 " Poor Side of Town" Johnny Rivers
19 " Working in the Coal Mine" Lee Dorsey
20 " A Groovy Kind of Love" The Mindbenders
21 " You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" Dusty Springfield
22 " Sunshine Superman" Donovan
23 " Born a Woman" Sandy Posey
24 " Monday, Monday" The Mamas & the Papas
25 " Red Rubber Ball" The Cyrkle
26 " Born Free" Roger Williams
27 " Walk Away Renée" The Left Banke
28 " Cool Jerk" The Capitols
29 " B-A-B-Y" Carla Thomas
30 " Hanky Panky" Tommy James and the Shondells
31 " When a Man Loves a Woman" Percy Sledge
32 " Time Won't Let Me" The Outsiders
33 " Bus Stop" The Hollies
34 " Paint It Black" The Rolling Stones
35 " Summer in the City" The Lovin' Spoonful
36 " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" B. J. Thomas & the Triumphs
37 " My Love" Petula Clark
38 " Daydream" The Lovin' Spoonful
39 " Ain't Too Proud to Beg" The Temptations
40 " Wild Thing" The Troggs
41 " Elusive Butterfly" Bob Lind
42 " I Am a Rock" Simon & Garfunkel
43 " Dirty Water" The Standells
44 " Hooray for Hazel" Tommy Roe
45 " Crying Time" Ray Charles
46 " Sweet Pea" Tommy Roe
47 " Secret Agent Man" Johnny Rivers
48 " Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" The Lovin' Spoonful
49 " We Can Work It Out" The Beatles
50 " Homeward Bound" Simon & Garfunkel
51 " Uptight (Everything's Alright)" Stevie Wonder
52 " Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" Cher
53 " Sloop John B" The Beach Boys
54 " 19th Nervous Breakdown" The Rolling Stones
55 " Wipe Out" The Surfaris
56 " Psychotic Reaction" Count Five
57 " Paperback Writer" The Beatles
58 " Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" The Temptations
59 " No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" The T-Bones
60 " Barefootin'" Robert Parker
61 " Just Like Me" Paul Revere & the Raiders
62 " Love Makes the World Go Round" Deon Jackson
63 " The Pied Piper" Crispian St. Peters
64 " Somewhere My Love" Ray Conniff Singers
65 " Almost Persuaded" David Houston
66 " If I Were a Carpenter" Bobby Darin
67 " Don't Mess with Bill" The Marvelettes
68 " Cherry, Cherry" Neil Diamond
69 " Message to Michael" Dionne Warwick
70 " Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" Lou Rawls
71 " Gloria" The Shadows of Knight
72 " My World Is Empty Without You" The Supremes
73 " Barbara Ann" The Beach Boys
74 " Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" Bob Dylan
75 " Guantanamera" The Sandpipers
76 " I'm Your Puppet" James & Bobby Purify
77 " Land of 1000 Dances" Wilson Pickett
78 " Oh How Happy" The Shades of Blue
79 " Woman" Peter and Gordon
80 " You Baby" The Turtles
81 "Sweet Talkin' Guy" The Chiffons
82 " Five O'Clock World" The Vogues
83 " Black Is Black" Los Bravos
84 " Nowhere Man" The Beatles
85 " Dandy" Herman's Hermits
86 " Baby Scratch My Back" Slim Harpo
87 " She's Just My Style" Gary Lewis & the Playboys
88 " The More I See You" Chris Montez
89 " I Fought the Law" The Bobby Fuller Four
90 " Yellow Submarine" The Beatles
91 " Hungry" Paul Revere & the Raiders
92 " Zorba the Greek" Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
93 " Shapes of Things" The Yardbirds
94 " Along Comes Mary" The Association
95 " 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)" Wilson Pickett
96 " Devil with a Blue Dress On/ Good Golly, Miss Molly" Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
97 " Wouldn't It Be Nice" The Beach Boys
98 " This Old Heart of Mine" The Isley Brothers
99 " Green Grass" Gary Lewis & the Playboys
100 " A Well Respected Man" The Kinks

See also

References

  1. ^ " Top Records of 1966", Billboard, December 24, 1966. p. 34, Retrieved April 17, 2018.