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Here are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1968.

That year, 10 acts hit number one for the first time, such as John Fred and His Playboy Band, The Lemon Pipers, Paul Mauriat, Otis Redding, Bobby Goldsboro, Archie Bell & the Drells, Herb Alpert, Hugh Masekela, Jeannie C. Riley, and Marvin Gaye.

Otis Redding, after his death in late 1967, was the first artist to hit number one posthumously. The Beatles were the only group or artist to have more than one #1 song in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968. Their song "Hey Jude" was the best-performing single in 1968, spending a total of nine consecutive weeks atop the chart and tying the record at the time for the most consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, set by "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith in 1960.

Chart history

Number-one artists

See also

• 1968 in music
• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1968
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1968
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties (ISBN 0-89820-074-1)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

References

1. ^ "April 16, 1960". Billboard Hot 100.
2. "January 13, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
3. "January 20, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
4. "January 27, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
5. "February 3, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
6. "February 10, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
7. "February 17, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
8. "February 24, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
9. "March 2, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
10. "March 9, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
11. "March 16, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
12. "March 23, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
13. "March 30, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
14. "April 6, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
15. "April 13, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
16. "April 20, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
17. "April 27, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
18. "May 4, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
19. "May 11, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
20. "May 18, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
21. "May 25, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
22. "June 1, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
23. "June 8, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
24. "June 15, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
25. "June 22, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
26. "June 29, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
27. "July 6, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
28. "July 13, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
29. "July 20, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
30. "July 27, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
31. "August 3, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
32. "August 10, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
33. "August 17, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
34. "August 24, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
35. "August 31, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
36. "September 7, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
37. "September 14, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
38. "September 21, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
39. "September 28, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
40. "October 5, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
41. "October 12, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
42. "October 19, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
43. "October 26, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
44. "November 2, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
45. "November 9, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
46. "November 16, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
47. "November 23, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
48. "November 30, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
49. "December 7, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
50. "December 14, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
51. "December 21, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.
52. "December 28, 1968". Billboard Hot 100.

• 1968 record charts
• Lists of Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs