[11] Liam Kelly and Nick Kozakis directed the music video, which was released on 24 June 2019, produced by Visible Studios.

Due to the overcast weather on the day of filming, every shot of the music video had its sky replaced digitally.

[17] In the United Kingdom, "Dance Monkey" broke the record for the most weeks spent at the top of the UK Singles Chart by a female artist when it remained at the top of the chart for an eleventh week.

The previous record of ten weeks was held jointly by Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" in 1992–1993 and "Umbrella" by Rihanna and Jay-Z in 2007.

"Dance Monkey" was the sixth highest ranked global digital single of 2019 according to IFPI, moving 11.4 million converted units.

[18] In November 2020, "Dance Monkey" was declared the most Shazamed song of all time with 36.6 million searches.

[19] In December 2020, Dance Monkey became the third most-streamed song on Spotify with over 2.5 billion streams, making Tones the first female artist to do so.

[20] Tones made her debut on US television on 18 November 2019 with a performance of the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

[9] In May 2020, "Dance Monkey" was announced as the Grand Prize winner of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition.