List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1968

In 1968, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the easy listening market.

[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 and took his version of "Never Gonna Let You Go" to the top spot.

[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.

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