God Only Knows

Momentum

This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.

Why it's here

Brian Wilson enlisted about 20 session musicians who played unusual instruments including sleigh bells, paper orange juice cups, French horn, accordion, and a tack piano with taped strings. [1] The recording features three contrapuntal vocal parts and a weak tonal center shifting between E and A major, an unusual harmonic complexity for a pop song of its era. [2] Carl Wilson's lead vocal performance on the track became regarded as his best ever. [3]

In culture

Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.

• Written by Brian Wilsonsource
• Written by Tony Ashersource
• Covered Andy Williamssource
• Covered The Shadowssource
• Covered The Langley Schools Music Projectsource
• Covered London Symphony Orchestrasource
• Covered David Bowiesource
• Covered Justin Hayward with Mike Batt & the London Philharmonic Orchestrasource
• Covered Royal Philharmonic Orchestrasource
• Covered Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartetsource
• Covered Elvis Costellosource
• Covered Brian Wilsonsource
• Covered Seamus Blakesource
• Covered Brian Wilson feat. The Corrssource
• Remixed by The Beach Boys, God Only Knowssource
• Remixed by The Beach Boys with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, God Only Knowssource

Across markets · earliest pickup first

Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly. One recording, one history: this table also counts the rows sources published under 2 other handles of this record (remasters, official videos).

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. Singaporesg · deezer2026-07-312026-07-31#561#56
   —
3. Swedense · shazam · 3 cities2026-09-272026-10-06#19210#7
   #192
4. Croatiahr · deezer2026-09-282026-09-28#741#74
   —
5. Jordanjo · deezer2026-10-082026-10-08#321#32
   —

City pickups

City charts record their parent country as the market, so these do not add to the market count above. One line per country: how many of its rooms picked the song up, and the best of them.

1. se 3 cities · best #7 malmo

Listen

No official embed available for this song yet.

• Deezer ↗

Editions

No published edition carries this song yet. Every edition it appears in will be listed here and stay listed: an edition is immutable, so a citation to one never rots.