The UK Albums Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom.[1][2][3] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical albums. This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 1968, as well as albums which peaked in 1967 and 1969 but were in the top 10 in 1968. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
The first new number-one album of the year was by Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently by Val Doonican. Overall, twelve different albums peaked at number one in 1968, with twelve unique artists hitting that position.
Top-ten albums
edit- Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ‡ | Album peaked in 1965, 1966 or 1967 but still in chart in 1968. |
| ♦ | Album released in 1968 but peaked in 1969. |
| Entered | The date that the album first appeared in the chart. |
| Peak | Highest position that the album reached in the UK Albums Chart. |
| Entered (week ending) |
Weeks in top 10 |
Single | Artist | Peak | Peak reached (week ending) |
Weeks at peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albums in 1965 | ||||||
| 17 April 1965 | 233 | The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack ‡ | Various artists | 1 | 5 June 1965 | 70 |
| Albums in 1966 | ||||||
| 12 November 1966 | 55 | Best of the Beach Boys ‡ | The Beach Boys | 2 | 26 November 1966 | 10 |
| Albums in 1967 | ||||||
| 3 June 1967 | 43 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band ‡ | The Beatles | 1 | 10 June 1967 | 27 |
| 15 July 1967 | 24 | Live at The Talk of the Town | Tom Jones | 6 | 16 November 1968 | 1 |
| 28 October 1967 | 15 | Break-Through: An Introduction To Studio Two Stereo ‡ | Various artists | 2 | 2 December 1967 | 1 |
| 10 | Best of the Beach Boys Vol. 2 ‡ | The Beach Boys | 3 | 4 November 1967 | 2 | |
| 23 | British Motown Chartbusters ‡ | Various artists | 2 | 9 December 1967 | 1 | |
| 25 November 1967 | 7 | Disraeli Gears ‡ | Cream | 5 | 9 December 1967 | 2 |
| 2 December 1967 | 10 | The Last Waltz ‡ | Engelbert Humperdinck | 3 | 16 December 1967 | 1 |
| 16 December 1967 | 13 | Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently | Val Doonican | 1 | 6 January 1968 | 3 |
| 23 December 1967 | 5 | Axis: Bold as Love | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 5 | 13 January 1968 | 1 |
| 12 | Reach Out | Four Tops | 4 | 27 January 1968 | 1 | |
| 30 December 1967 | 5 | Their Satanic Majesties Request | The Rolling Stones | 3 | 13 January 1968 | 1 |
| Albums in 1968 | ||||||
| 13 January 1968 | 14 | 13 Smash Hits | Tom Jones | 5 | 10 February 1968 | 1 |
| 20 January 1968 | 8 | Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. | The Monkees | 5 | 17 February 1968 | 2 |
| 3 February 1968 | 18 | The Four Tops Greatest Hits | Four Tops | 1 | 10 February 1968 | 1 |
| 24 | The Supremes: Greatest Hits | The Supremes | 1 | 17 February 1968 | 3 | |
| 9 March 1968 | 21 | John Wesley Harding | Bob Dylan | 1 | 9 March 1968 | 13 |
| 4 | Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul [A] | Otis Redding | 7 | 23 March 1968 | 1 | |
| 16 March 1968 | 16 | The History of Otis Redding | 2 | 6 April 1968 | 5 | |
| 23 March 1968 | 17 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | 4 | 25 May 1968 | 2 |
| 5 | Wild Honey | The Beach Boys | 7 | 6 April 1968 | 1 | |
| 30 March 1968 | 5 | 2 In 3 | Esther & Abi Ofarim | 6 | 13 April 1968 | 1 |
| 13 April 1968 | 6 | Live at London's Talk of the Town | Diana Ross & the Supremes | 6 | 11 May 1968 | 1 |
| 20 April 1968 | 10 | The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter | The Incredible String Band | 5 | 27 April 1968 | 2 |
| 4 May 1968 | 12 | Scott 2 | Scott Walker | 1 | 18 May 1968 | 1 |
| 11 May 1968 | 1 | Sher-oo! | Cilla Black | 7 | 11 May 1968 | 1 |
| 18 May 1968 | 10 | Smash Hits | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 4 | 8 June 1968 | 1 |
| 25 May 1968 | 18 | The Jungle Book: Original Soundtrack | Various artists | 5 | 29 June 1968 | 1 |
| 1 June 1968 | 9 | Love, Andy | Andy Williams | 1 | 15 June 1968 | 1 |
| 22 June 1968 | 7 | The Dock of the Bay | Otis Redding | 1 | 22 June 1968 | 1 |
| 9 | Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | Small Faces | 1 | 29 June 1968 | 6 | |
| 1 | Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits [B] | Buddy Holly | 9 | 22 June 1968 | 1 | |
| 29 June 1968 | 3 | Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls | Dionne Warwick | 10 | 29 June 1968 | 3 |
| 27 July 1968 | 8 | The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | 2 | 27 July 1968 | 2 |
| 7 | Bare Wires | John Mayall's Bluesbreakers | 3 | 27 July 1968 | 1 | |
| 2 | Honey | Andy Williams | 4 | 27 July 1968 | 1 | |
| 3 August 1968 | 16 | Delilah | Tom Jones | 1 | 10 August 1968 | 2 |
| 10 August 1968 | 21 | Bookends | Simon & Garfunkel | 1 | 17 August 1968 | 7 |
| 16 | A Man Without Love | Engelbert Humperdinck | 3 | 31 August 1968 | 1 | |
| 17 August 1968 | 8 | In Search of the Lost Chord | The Moody Blues | 5 | 14 September 1968 | 1 |
| 1 | A Saucerful of Secrets | Pink Floyd | 9 | 17 August 1968 | 1 | |
| 6 | Boogie with Canned Heat | Canned Heat | 5 | 5 October 1968 | 1 | |
| 24 August 1968 | 22 | Hollies' Greatest | The Hollies | 1 | 12 October 1968 | 7 |
| 2 | Wheels of Fire (Single LP Version) | Cream | 7 | 24 August 1968 | 1 | |
| 9 | Wheels of Fire (Double LP Version) | 3 | 14 September 1968 | 1 | ||
| 21 September 1968 | 19 | Live at the Talk of the Town | The Seekers | 2 | 5 October 1968 | 7 |
| 5 October 1968 | 3 | Aretha Now | Aretha Franklin | 6 | 5 October 1968 | 2 |
| 12 October 1968 | 1 | Mr. Wonderful | Fleetwood Mac | 10 | 12 October 1968 | 1 |
| 19 October 1968 | 6 | Idea | Bee Gees | 4 | 2 November 1968 | 1 |
| 3 | At Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash | 7 | 19 October 1968 | 1 | |
| 2 November 1968 | 12 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Ennio Morricone | 2 | 30 November 1968 | 1 |
| 1 | Traffic | Traffic | 9 | 2 November 1968 | 1 | |
| 16 November 1968 | 2 | This Was | Jethro Tull | 10 | 16 November 1968 | 2 |
| 23 November 1968 | 11 | The Graduate ♦ | Simon & Garfunkel and Dave Grusin | 3 | 1 February 1969 | 1 |
| 4 | Feliciano! ♦ | José Feliciano | 6 | 1 February 1969 | 1 | |
| 46 | The Best of The Seekers ♦ | The Seekers | 1 | 25 January 1969 | 6 | |
| 4 | Electric Ladyland | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 6 | 7 December 1968 | 1 | |
| 7 December 1968 | 14 | The Beatles | The Beatles | 1 | 7 December 1968 | 8 |
| 2 | The Best of the Beach Boys Vol. 3 ♦ | The Beach Boys | 8 | 25 January 1969 | 1 | |
| 14 December 1968 | 3 | I Pretend | Des O'Connor | 8 | 14 December 1968 | 2 |
| 4 | Val | Val Doonican | 6 | 21 December 1968 | 3 | |
| 21 December 1968 | 8 | Beggars Banquet | The Rolling Stones | 3 | 28 December 1968 | 4 |
| 28 December 1968 | 4 | Help Yourself ♦ | Tom Jones | 4 | 11 January 1969 | 1 |
Notes
edit- a Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul originally peaked at number 6 upon its release in 1966. It re-entered the top 10 at number 9 on 9 March 1968 (week ending) for three weeks. It re-entered the top 10 again at number 9 on 6 April 1968 (week ending) for one week.
- b Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits originally peaked at number 10 upon its release in 1967. It re-entered the top 10 at a brand new peak of number 9 on 9 March 1968 (week ending) for one week.
See also
editReferences
editGeneral
- "Six decades of singles charts". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
Specific
- ^ "The Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ^ Roberts, David (2005). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 14. ISBN 1-904994-00-8.
- ^ "New singles formats to save the charts". BBC News. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
External links
edit- 1968 album chart archive at the Official Charts Company (click on relevant week)