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THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES ... BY LUMINATE AND SALES DATA AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE. The Monkees Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Colgems Week of January ...