List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1968

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.