Counting Years and Months of rows in a table - conflict of scripts

Question

Im trying to count how many rows in a table by month and year. Then getting the rows to examine for that time period but my scripts are way out in numbers First - get all rows split into months

SELECT    COUNT(*) 
FROM      EmailSends 
WHERE     YEAR(CreateDate) = '2020' 
GROUP BY  MONTH(CreateDate)

gives me an output of

    (No column name)
24967  <-January
37251
13897
7498
12052
79943
26146
4340
4961
75797
17340
17653

then I run the below expecting 24967 rows but get 79,943 but the date range is good from the results. (Jan 1-31 2020)

SELECT    EmailID,CreateDate,Subject
FROM      Emailsends
WHERE     MONTH (createdate) = '1' and YEAR(CreateDate) = '2020'
GROUP BY  Emailsends.CreateDate,Emailsends.EmailID ,MONTH(CreateDate),Emailsends.Subject

.

select * from Emailsends where CreateDate between '2020-01-01 00:00:00.001' and '2020-02-01 00:00:00.001'

also returns 79943

Can you help? - unsure what I'm doing wrong. - Looks like the count script isn't playing or there's something else being counted that the count script isn't.