Editing 1968 in music (section)

==Albums released==

In the US, 6,540 pop singles and 4,057 albums were released.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&dq=1968+4057+albums&pg=PA307 Encyclopedia of recorded sound, Volume 1 | Frank W. Hoffmann, Howard Ferstler]</ref>

===January===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |2
| ''[[Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Sing Me Back Home]]'' || [[Merle Haggard]] || –
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |15
| ''[[The Notorious Byrd Brothers]]'' || [[The Byrds]] || –
|-
| ''[[From Sea to Shining Sea]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] || –
|-
| ''[[Nefertiti (Miles Davis album)|Nefertiti]]'' || [[Miles Davis]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Vincebus Eruptum]]'' || [[Blue Cheer]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Boogie with Canned Heat]]'' || [[Canned Heat]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Graduate (soundtrack)|The Graduate]]'' || [[Simon & Garfunkel]] (incidental music by [[Dave Grusin]]) || Soundtrack
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Gris-Gris]]'' || [[Dr. John]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Heavy (Iron Butterfly album)|Heavy]]'' || [[Iron Butterfly]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Lady Soul]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] || –
|-
| ''[[Spirit (Spirit album)|Spirit]]'' || [[Spirit (band)|Spirit]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |29
| ''[[Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf album)|Steppenwolf]]'' || [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |30
| ''[[White Light/White Heat]]'' || [[The Velvet Underground]] || –
|-
| rowspan="8" valign="top" | –
| ''[[A Beacon from Mars]]'' || [[Kaleidoscope (U.S. band)|Kaleidoscope]] || –
|-
| ''[[Did She Mention My Name?]]'' || [[Gordon Lightfoot]] || –
|-
| ''[[Horizontal (album)|Horizontal]]'' || The [[Bee Gees]] || –
|-
| ''[[Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five album)|Everybody Knows]]'' || [[The Dave Clark Five]] || US
|-
| ''[[Mass in F Minor]]'' || [[The Electric Prunes]] || –
|-
| ''[[Now and Them]]'' || [[Them (band)|Them]] || –
|-
| ''[[Om (John Coltrane album)|Om]]'' || [[John Coltrane]] || –
|-
| ''[[Something Else Again]]'' || [[Richie Havens]] || –
|-
|}

===February===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Once Upon a Dream (The Rascals album)|Once Upon a Dream]]'' || [[The Rascals]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Child Is Father to the Man]]'' || [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |23
| ''[[The Dock of the Bay (album)|The Dock of the Bay]]'' || [[Otis Redding]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Doin' Our Thing]]'' || [[Booker T and The MG's]] || –
|-
|rowspan="7" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Fleetwood Mac (1968 album)|Fleetwood Mac]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[There Are But Four Small Faces]]'' || [[Small Faces]] || US<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=there+are+but+four+small+faces&pg=RA1-PA74 | title=Billboard Album Reviews | date=24 February 1968 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Beat Goes On (Vanilla Fudge album)|The Beat Goes On]]'' || [[Vanilla Fudge]] || –
|-
| ''[[Hangin' On (album)|Hangin' On]]'' || [[Waylon Jennings]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Inner Mystique]]'' || [[The Chocolate Watch Band]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Mason Williams Phonograph Record]]'' || [[Mason Williams]] || –
|-
| ''[[It's Been a Long Long Time (album)|It's Been a Long Long Time]]'' || [[Hep Stars]] || –
|}

===March===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack]]'' || [[The Nice]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |4
| ''[[We're Only in It for the Money]]'' || [[The Mothers of Invention]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |6
| ''[[The United States of America (album)|The United States of America]]'' || [[The United States of America (band)|The United States of America]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Birthday (The Association album)|Birthday]]'' || [[The Association]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |13
| ''[[Eli and the Thirteenth Confession]]'' || [[Laura Nyro]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |25 
| ''[[Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls]]'' || [[Dionne Warwick]] ||
|-
| ''[[Reflections (The Supremes album)|Reflections]]'' || [[The Supremes|Diana Ross & The Supremes]] || –
|-
| rowspan="9" valign="top" | -
| ''[[Move (The Move album)|Move]]'' || [[The Move]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Song to a Seagull]]'' || [[Joni Mitchell]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter]]'' || [[The Incredible String Band]] || –
|-
| ''[[I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me]]'' || [[James Brown]] || –
|-
| ''[[A Long Time Comin']]'' || [[Electric Flag]] || –
|-
| ''[[A Portrait of Ray]]'' || [[Ray Charles]] || –
|-
| ''[[Safe at Home]]'' || [[The International Submarine Band]] || –
|-
| ''[[Scott 2]]'' || [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] || –
|-
|[[The Further Adventures of Charles Westover]]
|[[Del Shannon]]
| -
|-
|}

===April===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |3
| ''[[Bookends (album)|Bookends]]'' || [[Simon & Garfunkel]] || –
|-
| ''[[Wow/Grape Jam]]'' || [[Moby Grape]] || double LP
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |6
| ''[[Sher-oo!]]'' || [[Cilla Black]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |8
| ''[[The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde]]'' || [[Merle Haggard]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[The Pentangle (album)|The Pentangle]]'' || [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Odessey and Oracle]]'' || [[The Zombies]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |22
| ''[[The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees]]'' || [[The Monkees]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |29
| ''[[The Temptations Wish It Would Rain]]'' || [[The Temptations]] || –
|-
| ''[[Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III]]'' || [[Stone Poneys]] || –
|-
| rowspan="12" valign="top" | -
| ''[[Dance to the Music (Sly and the Family Stone album)|Dance to the Music]]'' || [[Sly & the Family Stone]] || –
|-
| ''[[Children of the Future (Steve Miller Band album)|Children of the Future]]'' || [[Steve Miller Band]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Just Because I'm a Woman (1968 album)|Just Because I'm a Woman]]'' || [[Dolly Parton]] || –
|-
| ''[[God Bless Tiny Tim]]'' || [[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[I Love Charley Brown]]'' || [[Connie Smith]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Randy Newman (album)|Randy Newman]]'' || [[Randy Newman]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[I Got the Feelin' (album)|I Got the Feelin']]'' || [[James Brown]] || –
|-
| ''[[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]'' || [[The Amboy Dukes (band)|Amboy Dukes]] || –
|-
|[[Just Today]]
|[[Bobby Vee]]
| -
|-
| ''[[Like to Get to Know You (album)|Like to Get to Know You]]'' || [[Spanky and Our Gang]] || –
|-
| ''[[Simon Says (album)|Simon Says]]'' || [[1910 Fruitgum Company]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Twain Shall Meet]]'' || [[The Animals|Eric Burdon & The Animals]] || –
|-
|}

===May===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |6
| ''[[At Folsom Prison]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |13
| ''[[Lumpy Gravy]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] || Reedited version
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |14
| ''[[La La Means I Love You (album)|La La Means I Love You]]'' || [[The Delfonics]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[The Pentangle (album)|The Pentangle]]'' || [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake]]'' || [[Small Faces]] || –
|-
|rowspan="7" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Basic Blues Magoos]]'' || [[Blues Magoos]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Beat of the Brass]]'' || [[Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Papas & The Mamas]]'' || [[The Mamas & the Papas]] || –
|-
| ''[[Quicksilver Messenger Service (album)|Quicksilver Messenger Service]]'' || [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Tom Jones Fever Zone]]'' || [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] ||Parrot album
|-
| ''[[A Tramp Shining]]'' || [[Richard Harris]] || –
|-
| ''[[Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil]]'' || [[The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band]] || –
|-
|}

===June===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="5" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Aretha Now]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] || –
|-
| ''[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album)|In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida]]'' || [[Iron Butterfly]] || –
|-
| ''[[Renaissance (Vanilla Fudge album)|Renaissance]]'' || [[Vanilla Fudge]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Inflated Tear]]'' || [[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]] || –
|-
| ''[[Renaissance (Vanilla Fudge album)|Renaissance]]'' || [[Vanilla Fudge]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Bare Wires]]'' || [[John Mayall's Bluesbreakers]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Friends (The Beach Boys album)|Friends]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] || –
|-
| ''[[Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits]]'' || [[The Rascals]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |26
| ''[[It's All About]]'' || [[Spooky Tooth]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |28
| ''[[A Saucerful of Secrets]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] || <ref>{{cite web |title=Timeline |url=https://www.pinkfloyd.com/history/timeline_1968.php |website=Pink Floyd - The Official Site |access-date=28 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="11" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Speedway (soundtrack)|Speedway]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] ||
|-
| ''[[40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve]]'' || [[Chicken Shack]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time]]'' || [[Joan Baez]] || –
|-
| ''[[Fairport Convention (album)|Fairport Convention]]'' || [[Fairport Convention]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Feliciano!]]'' || [[José Feliciano]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Immortal Otis Redding]]'' || [[Otis Redding]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Old Golden Throat]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] || –
|-
| ''[[Os Mutantes (album)|Os Mutantes]]'' || [[Os Mutantes]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Ptooff!]]'' || [[The Deviants (band)|The Deviants]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Silver Apples (album)|Silver Apples]]'' || [[Silver Apples]] || Debut
|-
|}

===July===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Music from Big Pink]]'' || [[The Band]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |3
| ''[[Waiting for the Sun]]'' || [[The Doors]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |5
| ''[[My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows|My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair...]]'' || [[T. Rex (band)|Tyrannosaurus Rex]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Delilah (Tom Jones album)|Delilah]]'' || [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[Shades of Deep Purple]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] || US Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |18
| ''[[Anthem of the Sun]]'' || [[Grateful Dead]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Music in a Doll's House]]'' || [[Family (band)|Family]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Miles in the Sky]]'' || [[Miles Davis]] || –
|-
| ''[[Super Session]]'' || [[Mike Bloomfield]]/[[Al Kooper]]/[[Stephen Stills]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |26
| ''[[In Search of the Lost Chord]]'' || [[The Moody Blues]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |29
| ''[[Truth (Jeff Beck album)|Truth]]'' || [[The Jeff Beck Group]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |30
| ''[[Last Time Around]]'' || [[Buffalo Springfield]] || –
|-
| rowspan="8" valign="top" | –
| ''[[Creedence Clearwater Revival (album)|Creedence Clearwater Revival]]'' || [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] || <ref>{{cite web |title=American album certifications – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=creedence+clearwater+revival&ti=CREEDENCE+CLEARWATER+REVIVAL&lab=&genre=&format=&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section |website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |access-date=July 6, 2022}}</ref> Debut
|-
| ''[[Undead (Ten Years After album)|Undead]]'' || [[Ten Years After]] || <ref>{{cite magazine|date=20 July 1968|title=Ten Years Later|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/68/Record-Mirror-1968-07-20.pdf|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|page=4|access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Begin (The Millennium album)|Begin]]'' || [[The Millennium (band)|The Millennium]] ||<ref name="notes-1990">{{cite AV media notes |title=Begin [back cover]|others=The Millennium |publisher=Sony Music Special Products |id=WK 75030|year=1990|last=Eden|first=Dawn}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Getting to the Point (album)|Getting to the Point]]'' || [[Savoy Brown]] || –
|-
| ''[[Only the Greatest]]'' || [[Waylon Jennings]] || –
|-
|''[[So Fine (Ike & Tina Turner album)|So Fine]]''
|[[Ike & Tina Turner]]
|
|-
| ''[[Tape from California]]'' || [[Phil Ochs]] || –
|-
|}

===August===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |9
| ''[[Wheels of Fire]]'' || [[Cream (band)|Cream]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)|Cheap Thrills]]'' || [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |19
| ''[[The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 3]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Stack-O-Tracks]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Tell Mama]]'' || [[Etta James]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Mr. Wonderful (Fleetwood Mac album)|Mr. Wonderful]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]] || –
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top" |26
| ''[[Diana Ross & the Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl"]]'' || [[The Supremes|Diana Ross & the Supremes]] || performance of ''[[Funny Girl (musical)|Funny Girl]]'' [[Broadway musical]]
|-
| ''[[I Heard It Through the Grapevine (album)|I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]'' || [[Marvin Gaye]] || –
|-
| ''[[Live at London's Talk of the Town]]'' || [[The Supremes]] ||Live
|-
| ''[[Special Occasion (The Miracles album)|Special Occasion]]'' || [[The Miracles]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |30
| ''[[Sweetheart of the Rodeo]]'' || [[The Byrds]] || –
|-
|rowspan="14" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Stoned Soul Picnic (The 5th Dimension album)|Stoned Soul Picnic]]'' || [[The 5th Dimension]] || –
|-
| ''[[Behold & See]]'' || [[Ultimate Spinach]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Donovan in Concert]]'' || [[Donovan]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Every One of Us]]'' || [[The Animals|Eric Burdon & The Animals]] || –
|-
| ''[[Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Frank Sinatra]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul]]'' || James Brown || –
|-
| ''[[Live at the Apollo, Volume II]]'' || [[James Brown]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Lonely Is the Name]]'' || [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] || –
|-
| ''[[Memories (The Vogues album)|Memories]]'' || [[The Vogues]] || –
|-
| ''[[Outsideinside]]'' || [[Blue Cheer]] || –
|-
| ''[[Together (Country Joe and the Fish album)|Together]]'' || [[Country Joe and the Fish]] || –
|-
| ''[[Turn Around, Look at Me (album)|Turn Around, Look at Me]]'' || [[The Vogues]] || –
|-
| ''[[You're All I Need]]'' || [[Marvin Gaye]] & [[Tammi Terrell]] || –
|-
|}

===September===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Crown of Creation]]'' || [[Jefferson Airplane]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |27
| ''[[Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' || West End cast || –
|-
|rowspan="6" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Avant Slant]]'' || [[John Benson Brooks|The John Benson Brooks Trio]] ||<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ford |first1=Phil |title=Dig: Sound & Music in Hip Culture |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780199939923 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMJpAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22medium+is+the+massage%22+musique+concrete&pg=PA194 |access-date=August 14, 2023 |page=181 |chapter=Chapter 6: "Let's say that we're new, every minute" (John Benson Brooks)}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Bobby Darin Born Walden Robert Cassotto]]'' || [[Bobby Darin]] || –
|-
| ''[[Idea (album)|Idea]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] || –
|-
| ''[[Life (Sly and the Family Stone album)|Life]]'' || [[Sly & the Family Stone]] || –
|-
| ''[[Magic Bus: The Who on Tour]]'' || [[The Who]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Shine On Brightly]]'' || [[Procol Harum]] || –
|-
|}

===October===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[In Person at the Whisky a Go Go]]'' || [[Otis Redding]] ||Live
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |3
| ''[[Mama Tried (album)|Mama Tried]]'' || [[Merle Haggard]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages]]'' || [[T. Rex (band)|Tyrannosaurus Rex]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Electric Ladyland]]'' || [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]] || –
|-
| ''[[Three Dog Night (album)|Three Dog Night]]'' || [[Three Dog Night]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |25
| ''[[This Was]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] || Debut
|-
|rowspan="14" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Aretha in Paris]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Electric Mud]]'' || [[Muddy Waters]] || –
|-
| ''[[Dream a Little Dream (Cass Elliot album)|Dream a Little Dream]]'' || [[Cass Elliot]] || Solo debut
|-
| ''[[1, 2, 3, Red Light]]'' || [[1910 Fruitgum Company]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Book of Taliesyn]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] || US
|-
| ''[[Bradley's Barn (album)|Bradley's Barn]]'' || [[The Beau Brummels]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark]]'' || [[Dillard & Clark]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Hurdy Gurdy Man]]'' || [[Donovan]] || –
|-
| ''[[Nazz (album)|Nazz]]'' || [[Nazz]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Sailor (Steve Miller Band album)|Sailor]]'' || [[Steve Miller Band]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Second]]'' || [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] || –
|-
| ''[[Traffic (Traffic album)|Traffic]]'' || [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Tumbler]]'' || [[John Martyn]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Wonderful World of The Osmond Brothers]]'' || [[The Osmonds]] || –
|}

===November===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="5" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Living the Blues]]'' || [[Canned Heat]] || double LP; studio + live
|-
| ''[[5 By 5 (1964–69)]]'' || [[The Dave Clark Five]] || –
|-
| ''[[Wonderwall Music]]'' || [[George Harrison]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands]]'' || [[The Turtles]] || –
|-
| ''[[Sweet Child]]'' || [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |8
| ''[[Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations]]'' || [[The Supremes|Diana Ross & the Supremes]] & [[The Temptations]] || Duets
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Neil Young (album)|Neil Young]]'' || [[Neil Young]] || Debut, Re-released November 1969
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |13
| ''[[Love Child (The Supremes album)|Love Child]]'' || [[The Supremes|Diana Ross & the Supremes]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Eivets Rednow]]'' || [[Stevie Wonder]] || released under pseudonym ''Eivets Rednow''
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top" |22
| ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' || [[The Beatles]] || commonly referred to as The White Album
|-
| ''[[Dusty... Definitely]]'' || [[Dusty Springfield]] || –
|-
| ''[[Elvis (NBC TV Special)|Elvis]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] || Soundtrack to [[Elvis (1968 TV program)|1968 TV special]]
|-
| ''[[The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society]]'' || [[The Kinks]] || –
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |29
| ''[[Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins]]'' || [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] || –
|-
| ''[[Astral Weeks]]'' || [[Van Morrison]] || –
|-
|rowspan="17" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Ars Longa Vita Brevis (album)|Ars Longa Vita Brevis]]'' || [[The Nice]] || –
|-
| ''[[Head (The Monkees album)|Head]]'' || [[The Monkees]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[The Best of Cilla Black]]'' || [[Cilla Black]] || –
|-
| ''[[Back Here on Earth]]'' || [[Gordon Lightfoot]] || –
|-
| ''[[Blues from Laurel Canyon]]'' || [[John Mayall]] || –
|-
| ''[[Born to Be (Melanie album)|Born to Be]]'' || [[Melanie Safka]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse]]'' || [[Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band]] || –
|-
| ''[[Gentle on My Mind (Dean Martin album)|Gentle on My Mind]]'' || [[Dean Martin]] || –
|-
| ''Help Yourself'' || [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] || –
|-
| ''[[I've Gotta Be Me (Sammy Davis, Jr. album)|I've Gotta Be Me]]'' || [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Ice Man Cometh (album)|The Ice Man Cometh]]'' || [[Jerry Butler]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Marble Index]]'' || [[Nico]] || –
|-
| ''[[Promises, Promises (Dionne Warwick album)|Promises, Promises]]'' || [[Dionne Warwick]] || –
|-
| ''[[Release of an Oath]]'' || [[The Electric Prunes]] || –
|-
| ''[[This Is My Country (The Impressions album)|This Is My Country]]'' || [[The Impressions]] with [[Curtis Mayfield]] || –
|-
| ''Time Out! Time In For Them'' || [[Them (band)|Them]] || –
|-
| ''[[Wee Tam and the Big Huge]]'' || [[The Incredible String Band]] || –
|-
|}

===December===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |2
| ''[[Cruising with Ruben & the Jets]]'' || [[The Mothers of Invention]] || –
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |6
| ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] || –
|-
| ''[[James Taylor (album)|James Taylor]]'' || [[James Taylor]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album)|For Once in My Life]]'' || [[Stevie Wonder]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |9
| ''[[Live at the Copa (The Temptations album)|Live at the Copa]]'' || [[The Temptations]] ||Live
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |11
| ''[[Blood, Sweat & Tears (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)|Blood, Sweat & Tears]]'' || [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]] || –
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |23
| ''[[The Natch'l Blues]]'' || [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]] || –
|-
|rowspan="12" valign="top" |-
| ''[[An American Music Band]]'' || [[The Electric Flag]] || –
|-
| ''[[Any Day Now (Joan Baez album)|Any Day Now]]'' || [[Joan Baez]] || –
|-
| ''[[Brooklyn Bridge (album)|Brooklyn Bridge]]'' || [[The Brooklyn Bridge (band)|The Brooklyn Bridge]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Circle Game (album)|The Circle Game]]'' || [[Tom Rush]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Family That Plays Together]]'' || [[Spirit (band)|Spirit]] || –
|-
| ''[[I Love How You Love Me (album)|I Love How You Love Me]]'' || [[Bobby Vinton]] || –
|-
| ''[[Jewels (Waylon Jennings album)|Jewels]]'' || [[Waylon Jennings]] || –
|-
| ''[[Love Is (The Animals album)|Love Is]]'' || [[The Animals|Eric Burdon & The Animals]] || –
|-
| ''[[Rock and Other Four Letter Words]]'' || [[J Marks|Marks and Lebzelter]] || <ref>{{cite magazine |title=New Album Releases for December |magazine=Billboard |date=December 14, 1968 |volume=80 |issue=50 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Rock+and+Other+Four+Letter+Words+marks+lebzelter&pg=PA12 |access-date=July 19, 2023}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas]]'' || [[Frank Sinatra]] || –
|-
| ''[[The Soft Machine (Soft Machine album)|The Soft Machine]]'' || [[Soft Machine]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Transformer (David Stoughton album)|Transformer]]'' || [[David Stoughton]] || <ref name="New Album Releases">{{cite magazine |title=New Album Releases for January |magazine=Billboard |date=January 11, 1969 |page=47 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1969/BB-1969-01-11.pdf |access-date=April 26, 2023}}</ref>
|-
|}

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*''3 in the Attic'' – [[Chad & Jeremy]]
*''[[30 by Ella]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]]
*''[[Accent on Africa]]'' – [[Cannonball Adderley]]
*''[[Action! (Desmond Dekker album)|Action!]]'' – [[Desmond Dekker & the Aces]]
*''[[Action (Oscar Peterson album)|Action]]'' – [[Oscar Peterson]]
*''Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth'' – [[Group 1850]]
*''[[Aerial Ballet]]'' – [[Harry Nilsson]]
*''[[Afro-Harping]]'' – [[Dorothy Ashby]]
*''[[All of Us (album)|All of Us]]'' – [[Nirvana (UK band)|Nirvana]]
*''[[Alto Summit]]'' – [[Lee Konitz]]
*''[[The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey]]'' – [[Jean-Jacques Perrey]]
*''[[The Archies (album)|The Archies]]'' – [[The Archies]]
*''[[As If It Were the Seasons]]'' – [[Joseph Jarman]]
*''[[At It Again (album)|At It Again]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
*''[[Autumn (Don Ellis album)|Autumn]]'' – [[Don Ellis]]
*''[[Baby, Come Back (album)|Baby, Come Back]]'' – [[The Equals]]
*''[[Backstage (album)|Backstage]]'' – [[Cher]]
*''[[Baiyina (The Clear Evidence)]]'' – [[Pat Martino]]
*''[[Balaklava (album)|Balaklava]]'' – [[Pearls Before Swine (band)|Pearls Before Swine]]
*''A Banda Tropicalista do Duprat'' – [[Rogério Duprat]]
*''Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid'' – [[Terry Reid]]
*''[[The Beat Goes On! (Sonny Criss album)|The Beat Goes On!]]'' – [[Sonny Criss]]
*''[[Bend Me, Shape Me (album)|Bend Me, Shape Me]]'' – [[The American Breed]]
*''[[Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival]]'' – [[Bill Evans]]
*''Bill Haley's Biggest Hits'' – [[Bill Haley & His Comets]]
*''[[Black Magic (Magic Sam album)|Black Magic]]'' – [[Magic Sam]]
*''[[Blue Odyssey]]'' – [[Houston Person]]
*''[[Blues – The Common Ground]]'' – [[Kenny Burrell]]
*''[[Blues on Top of Blues]]'' – [[B. B. King]]
*''[[Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell]]'' – [[Bobbie Gentry]] and [[Glen Campbell]]
*''Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers'' – [[Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers]]
*''[[The Bonniwell Music Machine (album)|The Bonniwell Music Machine]]'' – [[The Music Machine]]
*''[[Boppin' & Burnin']]'' – [[Don Patterson (organist)|Don Patterson]]
*''[[The Bottom of the Blues]]'' – [[Otis Spann]]
*''[[Bottoms Up (Illinois Jacquet album)|Bottoms Up]]'' – [[Illinois Jacquet]]
*''[[The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful]]'' – [[Ahmad Jamal]]
*''[[Bull's Eye!]]'' – [[Barry Harris]]
*''[[Caetano Veloso (1968 album)|Caetano Veloso]]'' – [[Caetano Veloso]]
*''[[Calling Out Loud]]'' – [[Nat Adderley]]
*''[[Caravan (Caravan album)|Caravan]]'' – [[Caravan (band)|Caravan]]
*''[[The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp]]'' – [[Giles, Giles and Fripp]]
*''[[The Chipmunks See Doctor Dolittle]]'' - [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]]
*''[[Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith]]'' – [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]]
*''[[Congliptious]]'' – [[Roscoe Mitchell]]
*''[[Count Your Blessings, Woman (album)|Count Your Blessings, Woman]]'' – [[Jan Howard]]
*''[[Country Girl (Dottie West album)|Country Girl]]'' – [[Dottie West]]
*''[[Country Hall of Fame (1968 album)|Country Hall of Fame]]'' – [[Hank Locklin]]
*''[[The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (album)|The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]]'' – [[The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]]
*''[[Cream of the Crop (Wanda Jackson album)|Cream of the Crop]]'' – [[Wanda Jackson]]
*''[[Cry Like a Baby (album)|Cry Like a Baby]]'' – [[The Box Tops]]
*''[[Cycles (Frank Sinatra album)|Cycles]]'' – [[Frank Sinatra]]
*''[[D-I-V-O-R-C-E (album)|D-I-V-O-R-C-E]]'' – [[Tammy Wynette]]
*''[[The Delta Sweete]]'' – [[Bobbie Gentry]]
*''[[Devil Got My Woman]]'' – [[Skip James]]
*''Dino Valente'' – [[Chet Powers|Dino Valente]]
*''Dion'' – [[Dion DiMucci]]
*''[[Dirty Grape]]'' – [[Johnny "Hammond" Smith]]
*''[[Disposable (album)|Disposable]]'' – [[The Deviants (band)|The Deviants]]
*''[[Down Here on the Ground]]'' – [[Wes Montgomery]]
*''[[Drinkin' and Courtin']]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
*''[[Earth Opera (album)|Earth Opera]]'' – [[Earth Opera]]
*''[[Easy Does It (Julie London album)|Easy Does It]]'' – [[Julie London]]
*''Eden's Children'' – Eden's Children
*''The Electricfying Eddie Harris'' – [[Eddie Harris]]
*''Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera'' – [[Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera]]
*''Fall Out'' – [[Terry Smith (British jazz guitarist)|Terry Smith]]
*''Feelings'' – [[The Grass Roots]]
*''[[Filles de Kilimanjaro]]'' – [[Miles Davis]]
*''First Edition's 2nd'' – [[The First Edition (band)|The First Edition]]
*''[[For the Sake of the Song (album)|For the Sake of the Song]]'' – [[Townes Van Zandt]]
*''[[Francis A. & Edward K.]]'' – [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Duke Ellington]]
*''[[From St. Louie to Frisco]]'' – [[Chuck Berry]]
*''Gal Costa'' – [[Gal Costa]]
*''[[Gentle on My Mind (Patti Page album)|Gentle on My Mind]]'' – [[Patti Page]]
*''[[Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals]]'' – [[John Hartford]]
*''[[God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It]]'' – [[Red Krayola]]
*''[[Goin' to Memphis]]'' – [[Paul Revere & the Raiders]]
*''Golden Grass'' – [[The Grass Roots]]
*''Gun'' – [[The Gun (band)|Gun]]
*''[[H. P. Lovecraft II]]'' – [[H. P. Lovecraft (band)|H. P. Lovecraft]]
*''[[Heart of Cash]]'' – [[Johnny Cash]]
*''Here Comes The Judge'' – [[Shorty Long|Frederick Earl "Shorty" Long]]
*''[[Hey Little One]]'' – [[Glen Campbell]]
*''Hickory Holler Revisited'' – [[O.C. Smith]]
*''[[Honey (Andy Williams album)|Honey]]'' – [[Andy Williams]]
*''The Horse'' – [[Cliff Nobles]] & Co.
*''[[House Project|Housing Project]]'' – [[John Hartford]]
*''[[I Can't Stop Dancing]]'' – [[Archie Bell & The Drells]]
*''[[I Stand Alone (Al Kooper album)|I Stand Alone]]'' – [[Al Kooper]]
*''I'm a Fool to Want You'' – [[Sergio Franchi]]
*''[[In My Own Dream]]'' – [[Paul Butterfield]]
*''[[In New York (EP)|In New York]]'' – [[Ravi Shankar]]
*''[[It Crawled into My Hand, Honest]]'' – [[The Fugs]]
*''[[It's All About]]'' – [[Spooky Tooth]]
*''Karyobin'' – [[Spontaneous Music Ensemble]]
*''Large as Life and Twice as Natural'' – [[Davey Graham]]
*''[[The Left Banke Too]]'' – [[The Left Banke]]
*''[[Live (13th Floor Elevators album)|Live]]'' – [[The 13th Floor Elevators]]
*''[[The Love Album (John Hartford album)|The Love Album]]'' – [[John Hartford]]
*''[[Look to Your Heart (Perry Como album)|Look to Your Heart]]'' – [[Perry Como]]
*''Love Is All Around'' – [[The Troggs]]
*''Love and Other Crimes'' – [[Lee Hazlewood]]
*''[[Love Is Blue (Johnny Mathis album)|Love is Blue]]'' – [[Lawrence Welk|The Lawrence Welk Orchestra]]
*''[[Lucille (album)|Lucille]]'' – [[B. B. King]]
*''A Man Without Love'' – [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]
*''Members, Don't Git Weary'' – [[Max Roach]]
*''The Midnight Mover'' – [[Wilson Pickett]]
*''[[Miracle Mirror]]'' – [[Golden Earring]]
*''[[Mony Mony (album)|Mony Mony]]'' – [[Tommy James and the Shondells]]
*''[[A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga]]'' – [[Ravi Shankar]]
*''Nancy & Lee'' – [[Nancy Sinatra]] & [[Lee Hazlewood]]
*''NBC-TV Special:TCB Soundtrack'' – [[Diana Ross & The Supremes]] with [[The Temptations]]
*''[['Nuff Said! (Nina Simone album)|'Nuff Said!]]'' – [[Nina Simone]]
*''On Stage'' – [[Bill Haley & His Comets]]
*''[[One to Get Ready, Four to Go]]'' – [[Clare Fischer]]
*''Otis Redding Live at the Whiskey A Go Go'' – [[Otis Redding]]
*''[[Outrageous (Kim Fowley album)|Outrageous]]'' – [[Kim Fowley]]
*''[[The Perry Como Christmas Album]]'' – [[Perry Como]]
*''[[Power of Love (Hour Glass album)|Power of Love]]'' – [[Hour Glass (band)|Hour Glass]]
*''[[The Progressive Blues Experiment]]'' – [[Johnny Winter]]
*''Promise Of A Future'' – [[Hugh Masekela]]
*''[[Rare Junk]]'' – [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]]
*''[[Reality Is Bad Enough]]'' – [[Patrick Sky]]
*''Realization'' – [[Johnny Rivers]]
*''Recital na Boite Barroco'' – [[Maria Bethânia]]
*''Rhinoceros'' – [[Rhinoceros (band)|Rhinoceros]]
*''[[Ring Out Joy]]'' – [[Ed Summerlin]]
*''[[Roots (The Everly Brothers album)|Roots]]'' – [[The Everly Brothers]]
*''[[S.F. Sorrow]]'' – [[The Pretty Things]]
*''[[Scratching the Surface (The Groundhogs album)|Scratching the Surface]]'' – [[The Groundhogs]] (debut)
*''[[Shake! (album)|Shake!]]'' – [[Siegel-Schwall Band]]
*''Sir John Alot of Merry Englandes Musyk Thynge and ye Grene Knyghte'' – [[John Renbourn]]
*''[[Slow Drag (album)|Slow Drag]]'' – [[Donald Byrd]]
*''Soul Master'' – [[Edwin Starr]]
*''Soulful Christmas'' – [[James Brown]]
*''[[The Sounds of India]]'' – [[Ravi Shankar]]
*''[[Soul Limbo]]'' – [[Booker T. & the MGs]]
*''[[Speak Like a Child (album)|Speak Like a Child]]'' – [[Herbie Hancock]]
*''Special Occasion'' – [[Smokey Robinson & The Miracles]]
*''[[Strictly Personal]]'' – [[Captain Beefheart]] and his Magic Band
*''Su piano y su música'' – [[Armando Manzanero]]
*''[[Switched-On Bach]]'' – [[Walter Carlos]]
*''[[Taj Mahal (album)|Taj Mahal]]'' – [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]]
*''[[Le temps des fleurs (album)|Le temps des fleurs]]'' – [[Dalida]]
*''[[Tenderness Junction]]'' – [[The Fugs]]
*''[[Texas in My Soul]]'' – [[Willie Nelson]]
*''There Is'' – [[The Dells]]
*''There Goes My Everything'' – [[Don Cherry (singer)|Don Cherry]]
*''[[Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells album)|Tighten Up]]'' – [[Archie Bell & The Drells]]
*''Tiny Tim's 2nd Album'' – [[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]]
*''[[Tomorrow (Tomorrow album)|Tomorrow]]'' – [[Tomorrow (band)|Tomorrow]]
*''[[The Transformed Man]]'' – [[William Shatner]]
*''[[Vigil (album)|Vigil]]'' – [[The Easybeats]]
*''[[Wake Up...It's Tomorrow]]'' – [[Strawberry Alarm Clock]]
*''[[Welcome to Trini Country]]'' – [[Trini Lopez]]
*''Wine and Song'' – [[Sergio Franchi]]
*''[[With Their New Face On]]'' – [[The Spencer Davis Group]]
*''[[The World in a Sea Shell]]'' – Strawberry Alarm Clock
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