List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1968 information
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.
^Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006. Record Research Incorporated. p. vi. ISBN 9780898201697.
The final EasyListeningnumberoneof the year was "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell. Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult...
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chart and faring even better on the EasyListening chart, where it spent two weeks at numberone in October 1968. The Four Preps on their album How To...
pop-rock duo of Zager and Evans. It reached numberone on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969. It peaked at numberone in the UK...
No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart and No. 9 on the EasyListening chart. In an effort to exploit the unexpected popularity of the song, Fantasy...
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version of it as the closing number, with Cissy Houston singing, on his own 1971 eponymous A&M album. Rosemary Clooney had a national easylistening chart...
Take Good Care of My Baby Chart History, Billboard.com. Retrieved March 10, 2018. "Billboard Top 40 EasyListening", Billboard, May 4, 1968. p. 49. Accessed...
what was then Billboard'sEasyListening chart (later known as Adult Contemporary), where eight of her 24 entries reached numberone. Of those 24, 20 also...
Versions of the song by Petula Clark and Andy Williams charted simultaneously in 1969 and had their best showings on Billboard magazine's EasyListening chart...
at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number 8 on the EasyListening chart. On the RPM charts in Canada, it peaked at number 20 on the country chart...
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reaching No. 21 on Billboard'sEasyListening chart. The LP, Will You Be Staying After Sunday, barely missed the Top 100 ofBillboard's albums chart, peaking...
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