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".

Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. In 1968, 13 songs topped the chart, then published under the title Easy Listening, based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.[1]

On the first chart of the year, the number one spot was held by Harpers Bizarre with their version of Glenn Miller's 1941 song "Chattanooga Choo Choo". It would prove to be the only Billboard chart-topper of the sunshine pop band's career, and after 1968 they would not achieve any further hits.[2][3] Other acts to top the chart for the first time in 1968 included Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes, who reached number one for the first time with a version of "The Fool on the Hill", originally recorded by The Beatles.[4][5] 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.[4]

The longest-running number one of 1968 was French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat's instrumental version of a song which had originally been Luxembourg's entry to the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest,[6] "Love is Blue". Mauriat's recording spent 11 consecutive weeks in the top spot, setting a new record for the Easy Listening chart which would stand for 25 years until broken by Billy Joel in 1993.[7][8] The song also topped Billboard's all-genres chart, the Hot 100, although it would prove to be Mauriat's last major hit in the United States.[6] The final Easy Listening number one of the year was "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell.

Chart history

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"This Guy's in Love with You" was a long-running number one for Herb Alpert.
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Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 topped the chart with their version of "The Fool on the Hill", originally recorded by The Beatles.
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Mary Hopkin spent six weeks at number one with "Those Were the Days".
Key
Best performing easy listening song of 1968 Indicates best-performing easy listening song of 1968[9]
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 6 "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Harpers Bizarre [10]
January 13 [11]
January 20 "In the Misty Moonlight" Dean Martin [12]
January 27 [13]
February 3 "Am I That Easy to Forget" Engelbert Humperdinck [14]
February 10 "The Lesson" Vikki Carr [15]
February 17 "Love Is Blue" dagger Paul Mauriat [16]
February 24 [17]
March 2 [18]
March 9 [19]
March 16 [20]
March 23 [21]
March 30 [22]
April 6 [23]
April 13 [24]
April 20 [25]
April 27 [26]
May 4 "Honey" Bobby Goldsboro [27]
May 11 [28]
May 18 "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Hugo Montenegro [29]
May 25 [30]
June 1 [31]
June 8 "This Guy's in Love with You" Herb Alpert [32]
June 15 [33]
June 22 [34]
June 29 [35]
July 6 [36]
July 13 [37]
July 20 [38]
July 27 [39]
August 3 [40]
August 10 [41]
August 17 "Classical Gas" Mason Williams [42]
August 24 [43]
August 31 [44]
September 7 "The Fool on the Hill" Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 [45]
September 14 [46]
September 21 [47]
September 28 [48]
October 5 [49]
October 12 [50]
October 19 "My Special Angel" The Vogues [51]
October 26 [52]
November 2 "Those Were the Days" Mary Hopkin [53]
November 9 [54]
November 16 [55]
November 23 [56]
November 30 [57]
December 7 [58]
December 14 "Wichita Lineman" Glen Campbell [59]
December 21 [60]
December 28 [61]

References

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