List of number-one country albums of 1968 (U.S.)
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These are the U.S. number-one country albums of 1968
, per the Billboard
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
1968 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1968.-Events:* January 13 — Johnny Cash records his legendary concert at Folsom State Prison...
, per the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
| Issue Date | Album | Artist |
| January 6 | Turn the World Around | Eddy Arnold Eddy Arnold Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more... |
| January 13 | Turn the World Around | Eddy Arnold |
| January 20 | Turn the World Around | Eddy Arnold |
| January 27 | Turn the World Around | Eddy Arnold |
| February 3 | Turn the World Around | Eddy Arnold |
| February 10 | By the Time I Get to Phoenix By the Time I Get to Phoenix (album) By the Time I Get to Phoenix is the seventh album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1967 .- Track listing :Side 1:# "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" - 2:42... |
Glen Campbell Glen Campbell Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show... |
| February 17 | By the Time I Get to Phoenix | Glen Campbell |
| February 24 | By the Time I Get to Phoenix | Glen Campbell |
| March 2 | By the Time I Get to Phoenix | Glen Campbell |
| March 9 | Sing Me Back Home Sing Me Back Home Sing Me Back Home is an album by country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1968.It has been reissued on CD by both Capitol and by Koch International.... |
Merle Haggard Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,... |
| March 16 | It Takes People Like You It Takes People Like You It Takes People Like You to Make People Like Me is an album by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, released in 1968.... |
Buck Owens Buck Owens Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos... |
| March 23 | It Takes People Like You | Buck Owens |
| March 30 | It Takes People Like You | Buck Owens |
| April 6 | The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold is an album by Country vocalist Eddy Arnold.-Track listing:# "All the Time" # "In the Misty Moonlight" # "There You Go" # "A Song for Shara"... |
Eddy Arnold |
| April 13 | It Takes People Like You | Buck Owens |
| April 20 | The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold | Eddy Arnold |
| April 27 | The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold | Eddy Arnold |
| May 4 | The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold | Eddy Arnold |
| May 11 | Promises, Promises | Lynn Anderson Lynn Anderson Lynn Rene Anderson is an American country music singer and equestrian known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably her Grammy Award-winning, worldwide mega-hit, " Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most... |
| May 18 | The Country Way | Charley Pride Charley Pride Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis... |
| May 25 | Honey | Bobby Goldsboro Bobby Goldsboro Bobby Goldsboro is an American country and pop singer-songwriter. He had a string of Pop and Country hits during the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature #1 classic "Honey," which sold well over one million copies in the United States.-Early life:Goldsboro was born in Marianna, Florida... |
| June 1 | Honey | Bobby Goldsboro |
| June 8 | Hey Little One Hey Little One Hey Little One is the 8th album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1968 .-Track listing:Side 1:# "Hey Little One" - 2:32# "Elusive Butterfly" - 2:17... |
Glen Campbell |
| June 15 | Fist City Fist City (album) Fist City is a 1968 studio album by American country singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn.This was Lynn's eleventh studio album as a solo artist and was released by Decca Records. The album spawned two singles. The first single, "What Kind of a Girl " was released in late 1967 and became a Top 5 Country... |
Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he... |
| June 22 | Fist City | Loretta Lynn |
| June 29 | Honey | Bobby Goldsboro |
| July 6 | Honey | Bobby Goldsboro |
| July 13 | Honey | Bobby Goldsboro |
| July 20 | At Folsom Prison At Folsom Prison At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues", Cash had been interested in performing at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of... |
Johnny Cash Johnny Cash John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century... |
| July 27 | At Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash |
| August 3 | At Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash |
| August 10 | A New Place in the Sun A New Place in the Sun A New Place in the Sun is the 9th album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1968 .-Track listing:Side 1:# "Freeborn Man" – 2:40# "The Last Letter" – 2:55... |
Glen Campbell |
| August 17 | A New Place in the Sun | Glen Campbell |
| August 24 | A New Place in the Sun | Glen Campbell |
| August 31 | A New Place in the Sun | Glen Campbell |
| September 7 | A New Place in the Sun | Glen Campbell |
| September 14 | A New Place in the Sun | Glen Campbell |
| September 21 | D-I-V-O-R-C-E D-I-V-O-R-C-E (album) D-I-V-O-R-C-E is the third studio album by American country music singer, Tammy Wynette, released in 1968. It reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, Wynette's first album to do so... |
Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.... |
| September 28 | D-I-V-O-R-C-E | Tammy Wynette |
| October 5 | At Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash |
| October 12 | Gentle on My Mind | Glen Campbell |
| October 19 | Gentle on My Mind | Glen Campbell |
| October 26 | Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell | Bobbie Gentry Bobbie Gentry Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is a former American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material... and Glen Campbell |
| November 2 | Harper Valley PTA | Jeannie C. Riley Jeannie C. Riley Jeannie C. Riley is an American country music and gospel singer. She is best known for her 1968 country and pop hit "Harper Valley PTA" , which missed becoming the Billboard Country and Pop number one hit at the same time... |
| November 9 | Harper Valley PTA | Jeannie C. Riley |
| November 16 | Harper Valley PTA | Jeannie C. Riley |
| November 23 | Harper Valley PTA | Jeannie C. Riley |
| November 30 | Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell |
| December 7 | Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell |
| December 14 | Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell |
| December 21 | Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell |
| December 28 | Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell |