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Key Points The Monkees had four No. 1 albums in 1967, an unbeaten record. No band has accomplished that feat since, according to Billboard. Only The Beatles, Elvis, and others have come close, but not matched it. In 1967, The Monkees achieved a chart record that remains unbroken 58 years later. In 1967, the band created for the television series of the same name released four albums in just one year, and each one reached No. 1, according to Billboard. No band has accomplished that feat since. Billboard writes, “They were on top as the year began with their debut album, The Monkees, which had spent the last eight weeks of 1966 at No. 1. The Monkees spent the first five weeks of 1967 in the top spot, until it was replaced on Feb. 11 by the group’s sophomore set, More of the Monkees. That album logged 18 consecutive weeks on top.” “The Monkees’ third album, Headquarters, grabbed a week at No. 1 in June before spending the next 11 weeks at No. 2 behind The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Monkees made it back to the top spot in December with Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd., which spent the last five weeks of the year at No. 1,” the passage concluded. Parade Daily🎬 SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Only Elvis Presley and The Beatles came close According to Billboard, eight bands in music history came close to matching The Monkees’ feat. These musicians included The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Kingston Trio, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Elton John, Garth Brooks, The Glee Cast, and Taylor Swift. The Beatles managed to almost catch up to The Monkees a trio of times. In 1964, 1965 and 1966, they hit the top spot with three albums. Elvis Presley hit number one twice in one calendar year; the first time was in 1957, the second in 1961. The Kingston Trio had three albums that hit the top spot in 1960. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass achieved the same milestone in 1966. The Glee Cast had remarkably scored three No. 1 albums in eight weeks between May and June 2010. Elton John marked a trio of albums that hit the top of the Billboard charts in 1975, Garth Brooks did it in 1998, and Taylor Swift in 2021. However, Swift is the only female artist in recorded history to achieve this chart feat.
