1968 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1968
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Hey Jude	The Beatles	138
2	All Along the Watchtower	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	121
3	Mrs. Robinson	Simon & Garfunkel	115
4	Born to be Wild	Steppenwolf	112
5	Expecting to Fly	Buffalo Springfield	111
6	Ride My See-Saw	The Moody Blues	103
7	Once Upon a Time in the West	Ennio Morricone	103
8	So Long, Marianne	Leonard Cohen	96
9	Dream a Little Dream of Me (cover)	The Mamas and the Papas	95
10	Sympathy for the Devil	The Rolling Stones	92
11	Piece of My Heart	Big Brother & the Holding Company	89
12	Embryonic Journey	Jefferson Airplane	87
13	Some Velvet Morning	Lee Hazelwood, Nancy Sinatra	84
14	Soulful Strut	Young-Holt Unlimited	84
15	The Weight	The Band	81
16	Yummy Yummy Yummy	The Ohip Express	80
17	Mony Mony	Tommy James & the Shondells	80
18	Time Has Come Today	The Chambers Brothers	80
19	Final Duel (Once Upon a Time in the West)	Ennio Morricone	79
20	Porto Novo	Marion Brown	79
21	Going Up the Country	Canned Heat	77
22	Magic Carpet Ride	Steppenwolf	76
23	Astral Weeks	Van Morrison	76
24	Soul Limbo	Booker T & the M.G.'s	76
25	Do You Know the Way to San Jose	Dionne Warwick	75
26	Hush	Deep Purple	74
27	Fox on the Run	Mannfred Mann	74
28	Back in the U.S.S.R.	The Beatles	72
29	I Can See for Miles	The Who	72
30	Stone Free	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	72
31	Mr. Bojangles	Jerry Jeff Walker	71
32	Feelin' Alright?	Traffic	71
33	Revolution 1	The Beatles	70
34	The Mighty Quinn	Manfred Mann	69
35	Elenore	The Turtles	69
36	Gris Gris Gumbo Ya-Ya	Dr. John	69
37	Spanish Castle Magic	Jimi Hendrix	68
38	Alligator	Grateful Dead	68
39	Matrix	Chick Corea	68
40	The Crystal Ship	The Doors	67
41	Stoned Soul Picnic	The 5th Dimension	66
42	Dance to the Music	Sly & the Family Stone	66
43	Burning of the Midnight Lamp	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	66
44	Voices in the Sky	The Moody Blues	65
45	Turtle Blues	Big Brother & the Holding Company	65
46	The Ostrich	Steppenwolf	64
47	Mama Roux	Dr. John	64
48	Cream Puff War	Grateful Dead	64
49	Ain't No Way	Aretha Franklin	63
50	In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida	Iron Butterfly	63
1968
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Electric Ladyland	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	6.8
2	Gris-Gris	Dr. John	5.7
3	Astral Weeks	Van Morrison	5.0
4	Lady Soul	Aretha Franklin	4.8
5	In Search of the Lost Chord	The Moody Blues	4.5
6	Porto Novo	Marion Brown	3.9
7	Cheap Thrills	Big Brother & the Holding Company	3.8
8	Steppenwolf	Steppenwolf	3.6
9	Bookends	Simon & Garfunkel	3.6
10	The White Album	The Beatles	3.2
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	Tom Wolfe	4.7
2	Between Parent and Child	Haim Ginott, H. Wallace Goddard, Alice Ginott	3.2
3	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	3.0
4	2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clark	2.8
5	The Last Unicorn	Peter S. Beagle	2.3
6	In the First Circle	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1.8
7	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Pauline Kael	1.4
8	The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton	1.4
9	The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin	Idries Shah	1.2
10	Welcome to the Monkey House	Kurt Vonnegut	1.2
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Once Upon a Time in the West		15.3
2	2001: A Space Odyssey		14.0
3	The Lion in Winter		13.8
4	Oliver!		12.5
5	Romeo and Juliet		12.3
6	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang		10.7
7	The Party		9.2
8	Yellow Submarine		8.7
9	Rosemary's Baby		8.6
10	Yours, Mine and Ours		8.1