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   

Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Artists of the Year   

  1. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  2. Diana Ross & The Supremes
  3. The Beatles

Artist with Most Charting Songs   

  • James Brown (8)

Average #1 Artist Age   

  • 29.6 years

#1 Songs   

  1. Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (December ’68, 7 wks)
  2. Tommy James & Shondells – Crimson and Clover (February, 2 wks)
  3. Sly & Family Stone – Everyday People (February, 4 wks)
  4. Tommy Roe – Dizzy (March, 4 wks)
  5. 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (April, 6 wks)
  6. Beatles – Get Back (May, 5 wks)
  7. Henry Mancini – Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (June, 2 wks)
  8. Zager & Evans – In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus) (July, 6 wks)
  9. Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women (August, 4 wks)
  10. Archies – Sugar Sugar (September, 4 wks)
  11. Temptations – I Can’t Get Next to You (October, 2 wks)
  12. Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds (November, 1 wks)
  13. 5th Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues (November, 3 wks)
  14. Beatles – Come Together (November, 1 wks)
  15. Steam – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye (December, 2 wks)
  16. Peter, Paul & Mary – Leaving on a Jet Plane (December, 1 wks)
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