Things are unraveling in America but great sound and new ways to listen have made music a true, immersive sanctuary like never before, at home on LPs with headphones or in the car on eight-track tapes. Country is surging, Singer-Songwriters are charting big hits, and Rock and Soul artists are expanding music’s horizons on sprawling, mind-blowing albums.
#1 Song of the Year
Artists of the Year
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Diana Ross & The Supremes
- The Beatles
Artist with Most Charting Songs
- James Brown (8)
Average #1 Artist Age
- 29.6 years
#1 Songs
- Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (December ’68, 7 wks)
- Tommy James & Shondells – Crimson and Clover (February, 2 wks)
- Sly & Family Stone – Everyday People (February, 4 wks)
- Tommy Roe – Dizzy (March, 4 wks)
- 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (April, 6 wks)
- Beatles – Get Back (May, 5 wks)
- Henry Mancini – Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (June, 2 wks)
- Zager & Evans – In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus) (July, 6 wks)
- Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women (August, 4 wks)
- Archies – Sugar Sugar (September, 4 wks)
- Temptations – I Can’t Get Next to You (October, 2 wks)
- Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds (November, 1 wks)
- 5th Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues (November, 3 wks)
- Beatles – Come Together (November, 1 wks)
- Steam – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye (December, 2 wks)
- Peter, Paul & Mary – Leaving on a Jet Plane (December, 1 wks)
