List of number-one singles of 1968 (Canada)
This is a list of the weekly Canadian RPM magazine[n 1] number one Top Singles chart of 1968.[n 2][n 3]
denotes Canadian Content.
| Volume:Issue | Issue Date(s) | Weeks on Top | Song | Artist |
| 8:17-19 | 23 December - 6 January | 3 | "Hello, Goodbye" | The Beatles |
| 8:20 | 13 January | 1 | "Woman, Woman" | The Union Gap |
| 8:21 | 20 January | 1 | "Next Plane to London" | The Rose Garden |
| 8:22 | 27 January | 1 | "Itchycoo Park" | Small Faces |
| 8:23 | 3 February | 1 | "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" | Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart |
| 8:24 | 10 February | 1 | "Baby Now That I've Found You" | The Foundations |
| 8:25 | 17 February | 1 | "Zabadak" | Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich |
| 8:26 | 24 February | 1 | "Spooky" | Classics IV |
| 9:1 | 2 March | 1 | "I Can Take or Leave Your Loving" | Herman's Hermits |
| 9:2 | 9 March | 1 | "Words" | Bee Gees |
| 9:3 | 16 March | 1 | "Simon Says" | 1910 Fruitgum Company |
| 9:4-5 | 23 March - 30 March | 2 | "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" | Georgie Fame |
| 9:6 | 6 April | 1 | "La-La (Means I Love You)" | The Delfonics |
| 9:7 | 13 April | 1 | "Valleri" | The Monkees |
| 9:8 | 20 April | 1 | "Young Girl" | The Union Gap |
| 9:9-10 | 27 April - 4 May | 2 | "Honey" | Bobby Goldsboro |
| 9:11 | 11 May | 1 | "A Beautiful Morning" | The Rascals |
| 9:12-13 | 18 May - 25 May | 2 | "Mrs. Robinson" | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 9:14-15 | 1 June - 8 June | 2 | "Master Jack" | Four Jacks and a Jill |
| 9:16 | 15 June | 1 | "Yummy Yummy Yummy" | Ohio Express |
| 9:17 | 22 June | 1 | "MacArthur Park" | Richard Harris |
| 9:18 | 29 June | 1 | "This Guy's in Love with You" | Herb Alpert |
| 9:19 | 6 July | 1 | "Angel of the Morning" | Merrillee Rush |
| 9:20-23 | 13 July - 3 August | 4 | "Lady Willpower" | Gary Puckett & The Union Gap |
| 9:24 | 19 August | 1 | "Hello, I Love You" | The Doors |
| 9:26[n 4] | 26 August | 1 | "People Got to Be Free" | The Rascals |
| 10.1 | 2 September | 1 | "Born to Be Wild" | Steppenwolf |
| 10.2 | 9 September | 1 | "Light My Fire" | José Feliciano |
| 10:3 | 16 September | 1 | "1, 2, 3, Red Light" | 1910 Fruitgum Company |
| 10:4 | 23 September | 1 | "Harper Valley PTA" | Jeannie C. Riley |
| 10:5-7 | 30 September - 14 October | 3 | "Hey Jude" | The Beatles |
| 10:8 | 21 October | 1 | "Fire" | Arthur Brown |
| 10:9-10 | 28 October - 2 November | 2 | "Those Were the Days" | Mary Hopkin |
| 10:11 | 11 November | 1 | "Hold Me Tight" | Johnny Nash |
| 10:12 | 18 November | 1 | "Magic Carpet Ride" | Steppenwolf |
| 10:13 | 25 November | 1 | "Abraham, Martin and John" | Dion |
| 10:14-15 | 2 December - 9 December | 2 | "Love Child" | Diana Ross & the Supremes |
| 10:16-19 | 16 December - 6 January | 4 | "Wichita Lineman" | Glen Campbell |
See also
- 1968 in music
- Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1968 (United States) by Billboard magazine
- Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1968 by Cash Box
References
- Notes
- ↑ The magazine's weekly record charts were digitized by the AV Trust. The collection is archived by Library and Archives Canada here.
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- ↑ A collection of all the .pdf files cited is available here.
- ↑ † On 21 March 1966, the chart became the RPM 100, as expanded to the top 100 singles.
- ↑ Although the charts were corresponding, the archive numbered this as no. 26 instead of 25.
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