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List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1968

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Harpers Bizarre began the year at number one with their version of the 1941 song "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

In 1968, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the easy listening market. The chart, which in 1968 was entitled Easy Listening, has undergone various name changes and since 1996 has been published under the title Adult Contemporary.[1] In 1968, 13 songs topped the chart based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.[1]

In the issue of Billboard dated January 6, the number one spot was held by Harpers Bizarre with their version of Glenn Miller's 1941 song "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which climbed from number 3 the previous week.[2][3] It would prove to be the only time that the sunshine pop band topped the Easy Listening chart, and after 1968 they would achieve no further entries on the listing at all.[4][5] Other acts to top the Easy Listening chart for the first time in 1968 included the Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes, who achieved the feat with a version of "The Fool on the Hill", originally recorded by the Beatles.[6][7] After a lengthy period without further major success, Mendes would achieve a second number one 15 years after the first when he made a comeback in 1983.[6][7]

The longest-running number one of 1968 was the French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat's instrumental version of a song which had originally been Luxembourg's entry to the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest,[8] "Love is Blue". Mauriat's recording spent 11 consecutive weeks in the top spot, setting a new record for the longest run at number one on the chart which would stand for 25 years until Billy Joel spent 12 weeks in the peak position with "The River of Dreams" in 1993.[9] "Love is Blue" also topped Billboard's pop chart, the Hot 100, although it would prove to be Mauriat's only number one on either listing.[10][11] "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro and "This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert also topped both charts in 1968.[12] The final Easy Listening number one of the year was "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell, the first time he topped the listing; after achieving his first three Easy Listening number ones within a 12-month period he would not return to the top of the chart until 1975.[13]

Chart history

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"This Guy's in Love with You" was a long-running number one for Herb Alpert.
A group of four men and two women standing together
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 topped the chart with their version of "The Fool on the Hill", originally recorded by the Beatles.
A young woman with long blonde hair wearing a dark dress, singing into a microphone
Mary Hopkin spent six weeks at number one with "Those Were the Days".
Chart history
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 6 "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Harpers Bizarre [2]
January 13 [14]
January 20 "In the Misty Moonlight" Dean Martin [15]
January 27 [16]
February 3 "Am I That Easy to Forget" Engelbert Humperdinck [17]
February 10 "The Lesson" Vikki Carr [18]
February 17 "Love Is Blue" Paul Mauriat [19]
February 24 [20]
March 2 [21]
March 9 [22]
March 16 [23]
March 23 [24]
March 30 [25]
April 6 [26]
April 13 [27]
April 20 [28]
April 27 [29]
May 4 "Honey" Bobby Goldsboro [30]
May 11 [31]
May 18 "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Hugo Montenegro [32]
May 25 [33]
June 1 [34]
June 8 "This Guy's in Love with You" Herb Alpert [35]
June 15 [36]
June 22 [37]
June 29 [38]
July 6 [39]
July 13 [40]
July 20 [41]
July 27 [42]
August 3 [43]
August 10 [44]
August 17 "Classical Gas" Mason Williams [45]
August 24 [46]
August 31 [47]
September 7 "The Fool on the Hill" Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 [48]
September 14 [49]
September 21 [50]
September 28 [51]
October 5 [52]
October 12 [53]
October 19 "My Special Angel" The Vogues [54]
October 26 [55]
November 2 "Those Were the Days" Mary Hopkin [56]
November 9 [57]
November 16 [58]
November 23 [59]
November 30 [60]
December 7 [61]
December 14 "Wichita Lineman" Glen Campbell [62]
December 21 [63]
December 28 [64]

References

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  10. ^ Whitburn 2002, p. 162.
  11. ^ Whitburn 2005, p. 452.
  12. ^ Whitburn 2005, p. 989.
  13. ^ Whitburn 2002, p. 43–44.
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  46. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for August 24, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  47. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for August 31, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
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  53. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for October 12, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  54. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for October 19, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  55. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for October 26, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
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  58. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for November 16, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  59. ^ "Adult Contemporary chart for November 23, 1968". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
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