1967 in music

The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its "Summer of Love" in San Francisco. It saw major releases from multiple well-known bands including The Beatles, Small Faces, the newly renamed Eric Burdon and the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Beach Boys, Cream, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Monkees. This year also saw debuts from many upcoming bands such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Doors, Moby Grape, Procol Harum, Traffic, The Velvet Underground, and Pink Floyd.

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Billboard Top popular records of 1967

The completed Billboard year-end list for 1967 is composed of records that entered the Billboard Hot 100 between November 1966 and December 1967. Records with chart runs that started in 1966 and ended in 1967, or started in 1967 and ended in 1968, made this chart if the majority of their chart weeks were in 1967. If not, they were ranked in the year-end charts for 1966 or 1968. If their weeks were equal, they were listed in the year they first entered. Appearing in multiple years is not permitted. Each week thirty points were awarded to the number one record, then nineteen points for number two, eighteen points for number three, and so on. The total points a record earned determined its year-end rank. The complete chart life of each record is represented, with number of points accrued. There are no ties, even when multiple records have the same number of points. The next ranking category is peak chart position, then weeks at peak chart position, weeks in top ten, weeks in top forty, and finally weeks on Hot 100 chart. The chart can be sorted by Artist, Song title, Recording and Release dates, Cashbox year-end ranking (CB) or units sold (sales) by clicking on the column header. Additional details for each record can be accessed by clicking on the song title, and referring to the Infobox in the right column of the song page. Billboard also has chart summaries on its website. Cashbox rankings were derived by same process as the Billboard rankings. Sales information was derived from the RIAA's Gold and Platinum database, the BRIT Certified database and The Book of Golden Discs, but numbers listed should be regarded as estimates. Grammy Hall of Fame and National Recording Registry information with sources can be found on Wikipedia. Archived issues of Billboard from November 1966 to March 1968 and Hot 100 Year-End formulas were used to complete the 1967 year-end chart published December 30, 1967.

Billboard Top Soul Singles 1967

Billboard Top Country Singles 1967

Billboard Top Easy Listening Singles 1967

Billboard Top Rock Tracks 1967 (unofficial)

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• "7-Rooms of Gloom" – Four Tops • "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell • "And Get Away" – The Esquires • "Alfie" – Dionne Warwick • "Seven Drunken Nights" – The Dubliners • "At the Zoo"/"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" – Simon & Garfunkel • "Autumn Almanac" – The Kinks • "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" – Nancy Sinatra • "Black Velvet Band" – The Dubliners • "The Boat That I Row" – Lulu • "Bottle of Wine" – The Fireballs • "California Nights" – Lesley Gore (m. Marvin Hamlisch w. Howard Liebling) • "Darling Be Home Soon" – The Lovin' Spoonful • "The Day I Met Marie" – Cliff Richard • "Death of a Clown" – Dave Davies • "Down On Me" – Big Brother and The Holding Company • "Even The Bad Times Are Good" – The Tremeloes • "Everybody Knows" – Dave Clark Five • "Flowers in the Rain" – The Move • "For Your Love" – Peaches & Herb • "Friday on My Mind" – The Easybeats • "From the Underworld" – The Herd • "Get on Up" – The Esquires • "Gettin' Together" – Tommy James and the Shondells • "Gimme Little Sign" – Brenton Wood • "Good Times" – Eric Burdon & The Animals • "Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera'" – Keith West • "Happy Jack" – The Who • "Here Comes My Baby" – The Tremeloes • "Heroes and Villains" – The Beach Boys • "Hole in My Shoe" – Traffic • "Homburg" – Procol Harum • "I Am The Walrus" – The Beatles • "I Feel Love Comin' On" – Felice Taylor • "I Know You Love Me Not" – Julie Driscoll • "I Take It Back" – Sandy Posey • "(I Wanna) Testify" – The Parliaments • "If I Could Choose – Sean Dunphy • "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" – The Monkees • "I'm Wondering" – Stevie Wonder • "It Takes Two" – Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston • "I've Been Lonely Too Long" – The Young Rascals • "Knock on Wood" – Otis Redding and Carla Thomas • "L'amour est bleu – Vicky Leandros • "La balsa" – Los Gatos (Founding song of the Argentine rock movement) • "Let Love Come Between Us" – James & Bobby Purify • "Let's Go To San Francisco" – The Flower Pot Men • "The Look of Love" – Dusty Springfield (m. Burt Bacharach w. Hal David) • "Magic Colors" – Lesley Gore • "Matthew and Son" – Cat Stevens • "Monterey" – Eric Burdon & the Animals • "More and More" – Andy Williams • "More Love" – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles • "Music to Watch Girls By" – Andy Williams • "My Back Pages" – The Byrds • "My White Bicycle" – Tomorrow • "New York Mining Disaster 1941" – Bee Gees • "Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man" – The Dubliners • "Night of Fear" – The Move • "Night Of The Long Grass"- The Troggs • "Nights In White Satin – The Moody Blues • "No Milk Today" – Herman's Hermits (w.m. Graham Gouldman) • "On a Carousel" – The Hollies • "People Are Strange" – The Doors • "Pictures of Lily" – The Who • "Pretty Ballerina" – Left Banke • "Puppet on a String" – Al Hirt • "Randy Scouse Git" ("Alternate Title" in the UK) – The Monkees • "Shake a Tail Feather" – James & Bobby Purify • "She's a Rainbow" – The Rolling Stones • "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" – The Byrds • "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" – Janis Ian (w.m. Janis Ian) • "Sorry" - Doris Day • "Soul Finger" – The Bar-Kays • "Summer Colors" – Wayne Newton • "Susan" – The Buckinghams • "Thank the Lord for the Night Time" – Neil Diamond • "There Is a Mountain" – Donovan • "Time Alone Will Tell" - Connie Francis • "To Love Somebody" – Bee Gees • "Tramp" – Otis Redding and Carla Thomas • "Try a Little Tenderness" – Otis Redding • "Twelve Thirty" – The Mamas & the Papas • "Waterloo Sunset" – The Kinks • "We Love You"/"Dandelion" – The Rolling Stones • "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" – Donovan • "When I Was Young" – Eric Burdon & The Animals • "Zabadak!" – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

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