The Monkees' discography spans over 50 years, from the release of their first single, "Last Train to Clarksville" in August 1966[1][2][3] to their final live album The Mike and Micky Show in April 2020.
[4][5][6][7] Their discography is complicated due to the large volume of unique releases in many international markets, the release of many recordings not credited to the Monkees for lack of rights to the trademark, and the existence of many bootleg, promotional, and novelty recordings that are beyond the scope of this article.
The Monkees' record releases were originally conceived as tie-ins with their eponymous television series about a fictitious band struggling to make ends meet as rock musicians.
[8] Columbia Pictures (the parent company of the series' production company Screen Gems) created Colgems Records in 1966 with a focus on releasing records by the Monkees along with other music connected with the film and television productions of Columbia‒Screen Gems.
[28] Arista Records in Australia and New Zealand released the double-LP compilation Monkeemania in 1979, which included three previously unreleased recordings,[29] marking the beginning of a flood of previously unreleased Monkees material to be released over the next few decades.
[34] and its two associated singles,[35] and the first two volumes of Missing Links, compilations devoted entirely to previously unreleased music from the Colgems era.
Mail-order imprint Rhino Handmade released multi-disc expanded editions of seven of the Monkees' studio albums and of their 1967 live recordings.
[189] This list does not include expanded editions of the Monkees' albums or multi-part compilations where the individual parts were not previously released separately.
This list includes those released in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico during the Colgems era, where they were most popular.
The Monkees, wanting more involvement in recording and selecting their songs, hoped to release "All of Your Toys" as their third single, but due to Colgems' policy of only releasing songs published by Screen Gems–Columbia Music, a compromise was reached to allow the Monkees to choose a B-side for "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" that the company owned publishing rights to.
Their music supervisor, Don Kirshner, displeased with the arrangement, rushed to release the single with his preferred B-side, "She Hangs Out", having sleeves printed and masters shipped to RCA Victor Canada featuring the song.
This led to his firing, and the offending single was canceled and replaced with one featuring the Nesmith-penned tune "The Girl I Knew Somewhere".
This table only includes some noteworthy charting singles released in Europe, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia.
O: ^ Released as Micky Dolenz & Peter Tork of The Monkees due to a trademark dispute.