Editing 1969 in music

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[[File:Lie In 15 -- John rehearses Give Peace A Chance.jpg|right|thumb|[[John Lennon]] rehearses "[[Give Peace a Chance]]", 1969.]]
List of notable events in music that took place in the year [[1969]].

==Specific locations==
*[[1969 in British music]]
*[[1969 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1969 in country music]]
*[[1969 in jazz]]

==Events==
===Summary===
Among the most significant musical events of 1969 were concerts. At a [[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]] [[Altamont Free Concert|concert]] in [[Altamont, California]], a fan was stabbed to death by [[Hells Angels]], a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event. In retrospect, some commentators have concluded that the violence signaled the end of the "[[hippie]]" movement, which espoused an ethos of [[free love]] and peace. Even more significant was the [[Woodstock]] festival, where some of the most famous performers in the world at the time played together in an atmosphere of peace with nature and love, with many thousands of concert goers; it is still one of the largest concerts in the history of the world.  The presence of [[Ravi Shankar]] reflected a growing interest in Indian and other Eastern music; Shankar later said that the 1960s "got India wrong".<ref name=Mahony>{{cite news|last=O'Mahony|first=John|title=Ravi Shankar bids Europe adieu|work=The Taipei Times |location=UK |date=8 June 2008|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2008/06/08/2003414118|access-date=18 July 2009}}</ref> "Black Woodstock", the [[Harlem Cultural Festival]], took place in New York City.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Bryan|last=Greene|url=http://prrac.org/newsletters/aprmayjun2017.pdf|title=Parks and Recreation|journal=Poverty & Race|publisher=Poverty & Race Research Action Council|location=Washington, D.C.|issn=1075-3591|volume=26|issue=2|date=April–June 2017|pages=5–6, 8}}</ref> [[The Beatles' rooftop concert]] was the last time the band played together in public. The 1967 musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'', originally performed off-Broadway, had generated an album and multiple chart hits in successive years, such as "[[Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In]]" and "[[Good Morning Starshine]]".<ref>[[Richard Zoglin|Zoglin, Richard]].  [https://web.archive.org/web/20080807052344/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1828301,00.html "A New Dawn for ''Hair''"],  ''Time'', July 31, 2008 (in the August 11, 2008 issue, pp. 61–63)</ref>

The [[Isle of Wight Festival 1969|Isle of Wight Festival]] in the UK saw the return of [[Bob Dylan]] to live performance after his motorbike accident in 1966.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/bob-dylan-how-the-isle-of-wight-festival-managed-to-steal-the-voice-of-a-generation-from-woodstock-10284257.html |title=Bob Dylan: How the Isle of Wight festival managed to steal the voice of a generation from Woodstock |newspaper=The Independent |date=29 May 2015 |access-date=30 August 2017 |archive-date=24 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324013601/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/bob-dylan-how-the-isle-of-wight-festival-managed-to-steal-the-voice-of-a-generation-from-woodstock-10284257.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

US and UK pop music remained popular worldwide, with few European acts making the charts outside their home countries; exceptions included [[Jane Birkin]] & [[Serge Gainsbourg]], [[Shocking Blue]], [[Georges Moustaki]], [[Aphrodite's Child]] and [[Christian Anders]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcharts.co.uk/archives/european/euro65.htm|title=European Music Charts - Top 40 Singles|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314173855/http://worldcharts.co.uk/archives/european/euro65.htm|archive-date=2016-03-14|access-date=2022-12-31|website=www.worldcharts.co.uk}}</ref>

[[David Bowie]]'s "[[Space Oddity]]" was released at the time that American astronauts first landed on the Moon. The song, the story of an astronaut named Major Tom who goes into space and is entranced by the beauty of seeing Earth from such a great distance and consequently lets himself float off into space, never again to return, was chosen by the [[BBC]] as background music for the television coverage of the Moon landing. The remainder of the album, ''[[Space Oddity (album)|Man of Words/Man of Music]]'', was too eccentric for mainstream acceptance, though it established Bowie as a major performer and songwriter.

[[King Crimson]]'s ''[[In the Court of the Crimson King]]''n a pioneering album in the development of [[progressive rock]], drew upon contemporary influences to form a sound melding [[rock and roll]] with [[European classical music|classical]] influences in long pieces of music.  Similar albums by [[The Moody Blues]], [[Procol Harum]] and [[The Nice]], as well as [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], [[Yes (band)|Yes]] and [[Pink Floyd]], were also released this year, expanding the range of prog rock and developing it into a full-fledged genre.

[[The Stooges]]' eponymous debut album, ''[[The Stooges (album)|The Stooges]]'', released in the United States to little critical or popular acceptance, went on to become one of the most important recordings in the early development of [[punk rock]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Galluci|first=Michael|title=The Story of the Stooges' Pre-Punk Milestone 'Fun House' |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/stooges-fun-house/|website=Ultimate Guitar|date=7 July 2015 |access-date=2017-03-01}}</ref> as did ''[[Kick Out The Jams]]'' by Detroit protopunkers [[MC5]].

[[Johnny Cash]]'s ''[[At San Quentin]]'' included his first Top Ten pop hit, "[[A Boy Named Sue]]".  The album was a sequel to 1968's ''[[At Folsom Prison]]''. Also in [[country music]], [[Merle Haggard]]'s ''[[Same Train, Different Time]]'', a tribute to [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], was enormously popular and influenced the development of the [[Bakersfield sound]] into [[outlaw country]] within a few years.

[[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] cemented their success from the previous year. Having had a single US number 11 hit in 1968 with "[[Susie Q (song)|Suzie Q]]", they releases their second, third and fourth proper studio albums in 1969, as well as drawing a total of four top 3 hits from these three albums. Starting with ''[[Bayou Country (album)|Bayou Country]]'', including the US number 2 hit "[[Proud Mary]]", and continuing with ''[[Green River (album)|Green River]]'' and finally ''[[Willy and the Poor Boys]]'', which, during the year, transformed them from an up-and-coming underground act to bona fide rock stars. During 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival had number 2 hits in the US with "Proud Mary", "[[Green River (song)|Green River]]" and "[[Bad Moon Rising (song)|Bad Moon Rising]]", and also have a number 3 hit with "[[Down on the Corner]]"/"[[Fortunate Son (song)|Fortunate Son]]".

[[Gilberto Gil]] and [[Caetano Veloso]] released enormously popular albums in [[Brazil]], ''[[Gilberto Gil (1969 album)|Gilberto Gil]]'' and ''[[Caetano Veloso (1969 album)|Caetano Veloso]]'', respectively.  The pair's fusion of [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]] and other native Brazilian folk influences, melded with politically and socially aware lyrics, kickstarted what came to be known as [[Tropicalia]].  Both musicians moved to London after a period of imprisonment for anti-government activities in Brazil.

The UK band [[Family (band)|Family]] released their second album, ''Family Entertainment'', their first top 10 album in the United Kingdom, hitting number six, with "[[The Weaver's Answer]]" becoming their most popular song in their concert performances. By the end of the year, however, their first attempt to break through commercially in the United States had failed miserably.

[[Elvis Presley]] returned to live performances at the [[Las Vegas Hilton|International Hotel]] in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]; breaking all attendance records in his 57-concert run. He also enjoyed great success with his singles "[[In the Ghetto]]" and "[[Suspicious Minds]]".

The [[Wendy Carlos]] album ''[[Switched-On Bach]]'' was one of the first classical albums to sell 500,000 copies, and helped bring classical music into the popular sphere, as did [[Mason Williams]]' "[[Classical Gas]]", played on classical guitar, in addition to being accompanied by one of the first successful music videos.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Classical Gas Original Video|url=http://www.classicalgas.com/gasvideo.html|access-date=2022-12-31|website=www.classicalgas.com}}</ref> The composition won three [[Grammy Award]]s: [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition]], [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance|Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental]], and [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement|Best Instrumental Arrangement]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Story of Classical Gas|url=http://www.classicalgas.com/gasstory.html|access-date=2022-12-31|website=www.classicalgas.com}}</ref>  In the meantime, German trumpeter [[Manfred Schoof]]'s [[free jazz]] album, ''[[European Echoes]]'', a recording of his half-hour free improvisation broadcast on German radio in June 1969, featured international musicians and is regarded as a seminal album in the genre.<ref>{{Citation|title=Manfred Schoof - European Echoes Album Reviews, Songs & More {{pipe}} AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/european-echoes-mw0000222563|language=en|access-date=2022-12-31}}</ref>

After the commercial failure of her last two albums, [[Cher]] starred in the film "[[Chastity (1969 film)|Chastity]]" which had a [[Chastity (soundtrack)|soundtrack album]] produced by [[Sonny Bono]]. SHer 6th solo studio album, ''[[3614 Jackson Highway]]'', was also a commercial failure, but was where she first explored blues and soul music, being highly praised by critics for her musical and vocal evolution.<ref>{{Citation |title=3614 Jackson Highway |date=1969-01-01 |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/3Q4MLOhuoqRLaOtB6ybvNE |access-date=2024-08-28 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Chutney music]] was also first recorded in 1969, in [[Trinidad and Tobago]] by [[Sundar Popo]].

1969 was the last year in which the United States government gave greater financial support, through the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] (NEA) "Music Program" to opera than it did to other classical music, and the first year in which it gave any support at all to [[jazz]] and [[folk music]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Binkiewicz|first=Donna M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f0v5ZwQWEL8C&q=1969%2520classical%2520music&pg=PA255|title=Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980|date=2004|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-5546-1|language=en}}</ref>

[[New York City Ballet]] celebrated their 25th anniversary with performances at the [[David H. Koch Theater]] [[Lincoln Center]].

===Major events===
*[[January 4]] – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is accused of arrogance by British television producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine of Your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 show ''Happening for Lulu''.
*[[January 12]] – [[Led Zeppelin]]'s eponymous debut album is released.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wall |first=Mick |title=When Giants Walked the Earth|page=141|year=2008 |publisher=Orion Books |isbn=978-90-488-4619-1}}</ref>
*[[January 18]] – [[Pete Best]] wins his defamation lawsuit against [[The Beatles]]. Best had originally sought $8 million, but ends up being awarded much less.
*[[January 30]] – [[The Beatles' rooftop concert]]: [[The Beatles]] perform for the last time in public, on the roof of the [[Apple Corps|Apple]] building at [[Abbey Road Studios|3 Savile Row]], London. The performance, which is filmed for the ''[[Let It Be (1970 film)|Let It Be]]'' movie, is stopped early by police after neighbors complain about the noise.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lewisohn |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Lewisohn |orig-year=1992 |year=2010 |title=The Complete Beatles Chronicle: The Definitive Day-by-Day Guide to the Beatles' Entire Career |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1-56976-534-0|pages=306–7}}</ref>
*[[February 3]] 
**[[The Animals|Eric Burdon & The Animals]] disband.
**[[John Lennon]], [[George Harrison]] and [[Ringo Starr]] hire [[Allen Klein]] as [[The Beatles]]' new business manager, against the wishes of [[Paul McCartney]].
*[[February 4]] – [[Paul McCartney]] hires the law firm of Eastman & Eastman, [[Linda McCartney|Linda Eastman]]'s father's law firm, as general legal counsel for [[Apple Records]].
*[[February 15]] – [[Vickie Jones]] is arrested for impersonating [[Aretha Franklin]] in a concert performance. Jones' impersonation is so convincing that nobody in the audience asked for a refund.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Maysh |first1=Jeff |date=July 2018 |title=The Counterfeit Queen of Soul |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/counterfeit-queen-soul-180969340/ | journal=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=22 April 2020}}</ref>
*[[February 17]] – [[Johnny Cash]] and [[Bob Dylan]] record together in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. Only one song, "Girl from the North Country", would be released from these sessions.
*[[February 18]] – [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]] and [[Maurice Gibb]] are married in the UK. Maurice's twin brother [[Robin Gibb]] is best man. Three thousand guests, most of them uninvited, turn out for the affair.
*[[February 24]] – [[Johnny Cash]] performs "[[A Boy Named Sue]]" at California's [[San Quentin State Prison]]
*[[March 1]] – During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, [[Jim Morrison]] of [[the Doors]] is arrested for allegedly exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
*[[March 2]] – [[John Lennon]] performs publicly outside The Beatles for the first time, with [[Yoko Ono]] at an improvised concert in [[Cambridge]], England.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Dorian|last=Lynskey|title=Reel to Reel|journal=Cam|issue=91|year=2020|page=28}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – The Who release "[[Pinball Wizard]]" as a single with a B-Side of "Dogs (Part Two)."
*[[March 12]]
**The [[Grammy Awards of 1969|11th Grammy Awards]] are presented in [[Chicago]], [[Los Angeles]], [[Nashville]] and [[New York City|New York]]. [[Glen Campbell]]'s ''[[By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Glen Campbell album)|By the Time I Get to Phoenix]]'' wins [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], [[Simon & Garfunkel]]'s "[[Mrs. Robinson]]" wins [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Roger Miller]]'s "[[Little Green Apples]]", performed by Miller and [[O. C. Smith]], wins [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]. [[José Feliciano]] wins [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]].
**[[Paul McCartney]] marries [[Linda McCartney|Linda Eastman]] in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_3607000/3607215.stm |title=1969: Paul McCartney weds Linda Eastman |work=BBC News|access-date=June 9, 2011 |date=March 12, 1969 |archive-date=March 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319044715/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_3607000/3607215.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
**[[George Harrison]] and his wife [[Pattie Boyd|Pattie]] are arrested in the UK on charges of [[hashish]] possession.
*[[March 15]] – [[Judy Garland]] marries [[Mickey Deans]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pathé|first=British|title=Judy Garland Wedding To Mickey Deans|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/judy-garland-wedding|access-date=2022-12-31|website=www.britishpathe.com|language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[March 20]] – [[John Lennon]] marries [[Yoko Ono]] in [[Gibraltar]].
*[[March 25]]-31 – [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] host a "[[Bed-In]]" for peace in their room at the Amsterdam Hilton, turning their honeymoon into an antiwar event. Lennon also learns from a morning newspaper that [[Music publisher (popular music)|publisher]] [[Dick James]] has sold his shares of [[Northern Songs]] to [[Lew Grade]]'s Associated Television (ATV).
*[[March 26]] – [[Lotti Golden]] records her debut LP ''[[Motor-Cycle (album)|Motor-Cycle]]'' (Atlantic SD 8223) at [[Atlantic Studios]] in New York City, featured in ''[[Newsweek]]'' (July 1969).
*[[March 29]] – At the 14th annual [[Eurovision Song Contest 1969|Eurovision Song Contest]] held at the [[Teatro Real]], Madrid, Spain, the final result is a four-way tie for first place between [[Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest|Spain]] (''"[[Vivo cantando]]"'' – [[Salomé (singer)|Salomé]]); [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest|United Kingdom]] (''"[[Boom Bang-a-Bang]]"'' – [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]]); [[Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest|Netherlands]] (''"[[De troubadour|De Troubadour]]"'' – [[Lenny Kuhr]]) and [[France in the Eurovision Song Contest|France]] (''"[[Un jour, un enfant]]"'' – [[Frida Boccara]]). As there is no tie-break rule in force at this time, the four entries involved, who each scored 18 points, are declared [[ex-aequo]] winners.
*[[April 1]] – [[The Beach Boys]] file a lawsuit against their [[record label]], [[Capitol Records]], for $2,041,446.64 in unpaid royalties and producer's fees for [[Brian Wilson]]. Capitol retaliates by deleting most of its Beach Boys catalog, severely limiting the band's income.
*[[April 8]] – Opening for [[Ten Years After]] at the Fillmore East in New York City, [[Family (band)|Family]] perform their first U.S. concert, and the show is an unmitigated disaster.  Vocalist [[Roger Chapman]], on his 27th birthday, throws a microphone stand into the audience, unintentionally in the direction of Fillmore East impresario [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]].
*[[April 20]] – The L.A. Free Festival in [[Venice, California]] ends before it even starts, following a riot of audience members, 117 of which are arrested. None of the performers scheduled to play appear.
*[[April 22]]
**The first complete performance of [[The Who]]'s rock opera ''[[Tommy (rock opera)|Tommy]]'' during a performance in [[Dolton, Devon]], UK
**''[[A Garland for Dr. K.]]'', a celebratory collection in honour of the 80th birthday of [[Alfred Kalmus]], consisting of eleven compositions by [[David Bedford]], [[Harrison Birtwistle]],  [[Richard Rodney Bennett]], [[Luciano Berio]],  [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Cristóbal Halffter]], [[Roman Haubenstock-Ramati]],  [[Henri Pousseur]], [[Bernard Rands]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], and [[Hugh Wood]] is performed at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]] in the [[Southbank Centre]], London, on a programme that also featured the word premieres of ''[[Eight Songs for a Mad King]]'' by [[Peter Maxwell Davies]] and ''Linoi II'' by Birtwistle.
**[[John Lennon]] changes his middle name from Winston to Ono.
*[[April 24]] – [[The Beatles]] make a $5.1 million counter offer to the [[Northern Songs]] stockholders in an attempt to keep Associated TV from controlling the band's music.
*[[April 28]] – [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] releases its debut album, ''[[The Chicago Transit Authority (album)|The Chicago Transit Authority]]''.
*May – [[The Winstons]] release in the US the track "Amen Brother" as the B-side of R&B single "[[Color Him Father]]" from which drummer [[Gregory C. Coleman]]'s 4-bar [[Break (music)|break]], as the '[[Amen break]]', becomes one of the most widely sampled tracks in history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2011/12/17/seven-seconds-of-fire|title=Seven seconds of fire|date=2011-12-17|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|access-date=2019-03-20|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32087287|title=Six seconds that shaped 1,500 songs|last=Otzen|first=Ellen|publisher=BBC|date=2015-03-29|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref>
*[[May 3]]
**[[Sly & the Family Stone]] release their breakthrough album, ''[[Stand!]]'', which became one of the top-selling albums of the decade and made the band one of the most popular acts in [[Rock and roll|rock]] and [[soul music]].
**[[Jimi Hendrix]] is arrested by Canadian Mounties at Toronto's International Airport for possession of narcotics (heroin). Hendrix is released on $10,000 bail.
*[[May 6]] – In London, representatives of [[Warner Brothers]]-Seven Arts discuss the purchase of fifteen percent of [[The Beatles]]' [[Northern Songs]].
*[[May 10]] – [[The Turtles]] perform at the White House. Singer [[Mark Volman]] falls off the stage five times.
*[[May 16]] – ''[[HPSCHD]]'', an event conceived by [[John Cage]] and [[Lejaren Hiller]] as a highly immersive multimedia experience, received its premiere performance before an audience of 6000 at the Assembly Hall of the Urbana Campus, [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]. 
*[[May 23]] – [[The Who]] release their rock opera [[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]].
* May 30–31 – First Annual Rock & Roll Revival in Detroit; Performers include among others [[MC5]], [[Johnny Winter]], [[Chuck Berry]], [[Dr. John]], [[Sun Ra]], [[David Peel (musician)|David Peel]], [[The Stooges]], [[Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]] 
*[[June 2]] – [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] host a "[[Bed-In]]" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada. The couple records the song "[[Give Peace a Chance]]" live in their suite with [[Tommy Smothers]], [[Timothy Leary]], and several others.
*[[June 7]] – [[Blind Faith]] make their first live appearance with a free show In Hyde Park. Among the estimated 120,000 in attendance<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yooYAAAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=H. W. Wilson Co|page=99}}</ref> are [[Mick Jagger]], [[Mick Fleetwood]], [[Donovan]], [[Chas Chandler]], [[Noel Redding]] and [[Mitch Mitchell]] of the [[Jimi Hendrix]] Experience, [[Jim Capaldi]] and [[Chris Wood (rock musician)|Chris Wood]] of [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]], [[Terry Hicks]] of [[The Hollies]], and [[Mike Hugg]] of [[Manfred Mann]].
*[[June 13]] – [[Mick Taylor]] joins the [[Rolling Stones]].
*[[June 28]] – The [[Stonewall riots]] erupt in New York City, marking the launch of the gay liberation movement.
*[[June 29]]–[[August 24]] – [[Harlem Cultural Festival]] in New York City.
*[[June 29]] – Bass player [[Noel Redding]] announces to the media that he has quit the Jimi Hendrix Experience, having effectively done so during the recording of ''Electric Ladyland''.
*[[July 1]] – [[Cornelius Cardew]]'s [[Scratch Orchestra]] holds its first meeting. [[Brian Eno]] begins his musical career as a member. 
*[[July 3]] – [[Brian Jones]] is found dead in the swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England, almost a month after leaving [[The Rolling Stones]].
*[[July 5]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] proceed with a free concert in [[Hyde Park, London]], as a tribute to Brian Jones; it is also the band's first concert with guitarist [[Mick Taylor]]. Estimates of the audience range from 250,000 to 400,000.
*[[July 30]] – Columbia records releases ''[[In A Silent Way]]'' by [[Miles Davis]], one of the first jazz/rock fusion albums, featuring [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]], [[Joe Zawinul]], and [[Chick Corea]].
*[[July 31]] – [[Elvis Presley]] returns to live performances in Las Vegas. The engagement ends on August 28.
*[[August 8]] – [[Iain Macmillan]] photographs the cover picture for [[The Beatles]]' album ''[[Abbey Road]]'' at a north London [[zebra crossing]] near the [[Abbey Road Studios]].
*[[August 9]] – Members of would-be folk singer [[Charles Manson]]'s "family" murder film star [[Sharon Tate]] and others, in Tate's home.
*[[August 15]]-17 – The [[Woodstock Music and Art Festival]] is held at [[Max Yasgur]]'s dairy farm in [[Bethel, New York]], near [[Woodstock, New York]]. Performers include [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Janis Joplin]], [[The Who]], [[The Band]], [[Joan Baez]], [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Santana (band)|Santana]], [[Country Joe and the Fish]], [[Ten Years After]], and [[Sly & the Family Stone]].
*[[August 20]] – Final session for [[The Beatles]]' album ''[[Abbey Road]]'' at [[Abbey Road Studios]] in London, the last time all four members of the band are present in a studio together.<ref name=MacDonald>{{cite book|last=MacDonald|first=Ian|author-link=Ian MacDonald|title=[[Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties]]|edition=1st rev.|year=1997|publisher=Pimlico (Random House)|location=London|isbn=978-0-7126-6697-8|page=322}}</ref>
*[[August 21]]-24 – The [[Jazz Bilzen]] Festival is held in [[Bilzen]], Belgium. Performers include [[Deep Purple]], [[Shocking Blue]], [[The Moody Blues]], [[Soft Machine]], [[Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]], [[The Move]] and [[Blossom Toes]].
*[[August 30]]-31 – The [[Isle of Wight Festival 1969|Isle of Wight Festival]] is held in [[Wootton Bridge]]. Performers include among others [[The Band]], [[Blodwyn Pig]], [[Edgar Broughton Band]], [[Joe Cocker]], [[Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]], [[Bob Dylan]] (returning to live music after his motorbike accident in 1966), [[Family (band)|Family]], [[The Who]], [[Free (band)|Free]], [[Mighty Baby]], [[The Moody Blues]], [[The Nice]], [[The Pretty Things]], [[Third Ear Band]].
*[[September 11]] – [[Janis Joplin]] releases ''[[I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!]]'' her first solo album since leaving the group [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]].
*[[September 13]] – [[John Lennon]] and [[Plastic Ono Band]] perform at the [[Toronto Rock and Roll Revival]] 12-hour music festival, backed by [[Eric Clapton]], [[Klaus Voormann]] and [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]]. Other performers on the bill include [[Chuck Berry]], [[Bo Diddley]], [[Little Richard]], [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] and up-and-comers [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]. It is Lennon's first-ever large-scale public rock performance (noting his lower-profile 1968 appearance in the Dirty Mac) without one or more of [[The Beatles]] since meeting [[Paul McCartney]] in 1957. He decides before returning to the UK to leave The Beatles permanently. During the show, a chicken is somehow in a feather pillow that [[Alice Cooper]] normally uses as a stage routine during his band's performance. Cooper, thinking that all birds fly, throws the chicken into the audience and fans tear the chicken and throw it back on stage. The event would be known as "The Chicken Incident" and Cooper develops his reputation as a shock-rocker.
*[[September 24]] – [[Deep Purple]] and the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] perform the [[Concerto for Group and Orchestra]] at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London, in the first elaborate collaboration between a rock band and an orchestra.
*[[October 14]] – The final single by [[Diana Ross & The Supremes]], "[[Someday We'll Be Together]]", is released. The single, although credited to Diana Ross & the Supremes, was actually sung by Ross with session singers "the Andantes", instead of the other two Supremes.<ref name="WilsonRomanowski1990">{{cite book|author1=Mary Wilson|author2=Patricia Romanowski|author3=Patricia Romanowski Bashe|title=Supreme faith: someday we'll be together|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yQUAQAAIAAJ|date=1 November 1990|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-016290-0|page=9}}</ref> Nonetheless, it becomes the final number 1 hit of 1969 (and of the 1960s). After a farewell concert in January 1970, [[Diana Ross]] leaves [[the Supremes]] for a solo career.
*[[October 18]] – [[Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]] Live at the Fillmore East, NY.
*[[October 22]] – Led Zeppelin's second album is released with the song "[[Whole Lotta Love]]".
*[[October 30]] – [[Richard Nader]] first Rock and Roll Revival concert sells out, setting the stage for [[oldies]] as a commercial category.
*November – [[Simon & Garfunkel]] give a live concert at [[Iowa State University]], where they record the track "[[Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers song)|Bye, Bye Love]]" for their upcoming album ''[[Bridge Over Troubled Water]]''.
*[[November 1]] – After seven years off the top of the charts, [[Elvis Presley]] hits No. 1 on the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' chart with "Suspicious Minds".
*[[November 7]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] open their US tour in [[Fort Collins, Colorado]].
*[[November 8]] – [[Simon & Garfunkel]], on tour for the first time with a band, give a live concert in [[Carbondale, Illinois]], presumably at [[Southern Illinois University]]. The concert is not released until 1999 as part of a recording compiled by Head Records, called ''[[Village Vanguard]]''.
*[[November 11]] – [[Simon & Garfunkel]] give a live concert at [[Miami University]] in [[Oxford, Ohio]]. The recording is later released in the 1990s as ''[[Back to College]]'' on Yellow Dog Records and ''[[A Time of Innocence]]'' on Bell Bottom Records.
*[[November 15]] 
**500,000 people march in Washington, D.C. for peace, which becomes the largest anti-war rally in U.S. history. Performing on stage: [[Arlo Guthrie]], [[Pete Seeger]], [[Peter, Paul and Mary]], [[Richie Havens]], [[Earl Scuggs]], [[John Denver]], [[Mitch Miller]], touring cast of [[Hair (musical)|Hair]]
**''Musik für die Beethovenhalle'' in [[Bonn]], a multi-auditorium retrospective concert of the music of [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], with the world premiere of his ''[[Fresco (Stockhausen)|Fresco]]'' presented in four different foyer spaces continuously over a span of four-and-a-half hours.
*[[November 29]] – ''Billboard'' magazine changes its policy of charting the A and B sides of 45 singles on its pop chart. The former policy charted the two sides separately, but the new policy considers both sides as one chart entry.  The Beatles are the first beneficiary of the new policy as their current 45 single featuring "[[Come Together]]" on one side, and "[[Something (Beatles song)|Something]]" on the other, accrue enough combined points to make the single a #1 pop hit. Similarly, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "[[Fortunate Son (song)|Fortunate Son]]" and "[[Down On The Corner]]" accrue enough combined points to reach number 3 three weeks later.
*[[November 30]] – [[Simon & Garfunkel]] air TV special ''Songs of America'', ostensibly an hour-long show that is anti-war and anti-poverty featuring live footage from their 1969 tour.
*[[December 6]] 
**[[The Jackson 5]] release their debut album, ''[[Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5]]''.
**[[Altamont Free Concert]]
**[[Zubin Mehta]] marries [[Nancy Kovack]].
*[[December 13]] - the final episode of [[The Banana Splits Adventure Hour]] airs on NBC as the network cancels the program during a telecast of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer a week later.

==Bands formed==
* ''See [[:Category:Musical groups established in 1969|Musical groups established in 1969]]''

==Bands disbanded==
* [[The 13th Floor Elevators]]
* [[The Animals#Second incarnation|Eric Burdon and the Animals]] (original Animals reform in 1975)
* [[The Jeff Beck Group]] (reassembled with different line-up in 1971)

==Albums released==
===January===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[The Holy Land (album)|The Holy Land]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[Led Zeppelin (album)|Led Zeppelin]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] ||US Debut
|-
| ''[[Yellow Submarine (album)|Yellow Submarine]]'' || [[The Beatles]] || Soundtrack
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Bayou Country (album)|Bayou Country]]'' || [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Creedence+Clearwater+Revival&ti=Bayou+Country&format=Album&type=#search_section|title=RIAA|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Babylon (Dr. John album)|Babylon]]'' || [[Dr. John]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ball (Iron Butterfly album)|Ball]]'' || [[Iron Butterfly]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Soul '69]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[Moby Grape '69]]'' || [[Moby Grape]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="11" style="vertical-align:top;" | –
| ''[[Birthday Blues (album)|Birthday Blues]]'' || [[Bert Jansch]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Donovan's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Donovan]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[English Rose (album)|English Rose]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]] || Compilation
|-
| ''First Edition '69'' || [[The First Edition (band)|The First Edition]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ramblin' Gamblin' Man]]'' || [[Bob Seger|The Bob Seger System]] ||-
|-
|''[[Irresistible (Tammi Terrell album)|Irresistible]]''
|[[Tammi Terrell]]
|Solo debut
|-
| ''[[Till (The Vogues album)|Till]]'' || [[The Vogues]] ||-
|-
| ''[[What We Did on Our Holidays]]'' || [[Fairport Convention]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper]]'' || [[Mike Bloomfield]] & [[Al Kooper]] ||-
|-
|}

===February===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|2
|''[[Perspective (Rick Nelson album)|Perspective]]''
|[[Ricky Nelson|Rick Nelson]]
|
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Goodbye (Cream album)|Goodbye]]'' || [[Cream (band)|Cream]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[The Gilded Palace of Sin]]'' || [[The Flying Burrito Brothers]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[20/20 (The Beach Boys album)|20/20]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Sound of Sexy Soul]]'' || [[The Delfonics]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Instant Replay (The Monkees album)|Instant Replay]]'' || [[The Monkees]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Cloud Nine (The Temptations album)|Cloud Nine]]'' || [[The Temptations]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Postcard (album)|Postcard]]'' || [[Mary Hopkin]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[Stonedhenge]]'' || [[Ten Years After]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="vertical-align:top;"|-
| ''[[Bless Its Pointed Little Head]]'' || [[Jefferson Airplane]] || Live
|-
| ''[[O.K. Ken?]]'' || [[Chicken Shack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kick Out the Jams]]'' || [[MC5]] || Live, Debut
|-
| ''[[Odessa (Bee Gees album)|Odessa]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mutantes (album)|Mutantes]]'' || [[Os Mutantes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Near the Beginning]]'' || [[Vanilla Fudge]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Contact (Silver Apples album)|Contact]]'' || [[Silver Apples]] ||-
|-
|}

===March===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde]]'' || [[The Byrds]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[From Genesis to Revelation]]'' || [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] || Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Tons of Sobs]]'' || [[Free (band)|Free]] || Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Freedom Suite (The Rascals album)|Freedom Suite]]'' || [[The Rascals]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Bull of the Woods]]'' || [[The 13th Floor Elevators]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Mothermania]]'' || [[The Mothers of Invention]] || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="15" style="vertical-align:top;" | –
| ''[[At Your Birthday Party]]'' || [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Family Entertainment]]'' || [[Family (band)|Family]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]'' || [[Dusty Springfield]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Happy Trails (album)|Happy Trails]]'' || [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Yer' Album]]'' || [[James Gang]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Just to Satisfy You (album)|Just to Satisfy You]]'' || [[Waylon Jennings]] ||-
|-
| ''[[My Way (Frank Sinatra album)|My Way]]'' || [[Frank Sinatra]] ||-
|-
| ''[[New! Improved!]]'' || [[Blue Cheer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Outta Season]]'' || [[Ike & Tina Turner]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud (album)|Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud]]'' || [[James Brown]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Scott 3]]'' || [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Spooky Two]]'' || [[Spooky Tooth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Velvet Underground (album)|The Velvet Underground]]'' || [[The Velvet Underground]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wheatfield Soul]]'' || [[The Guess Who]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Galveston (album)|Galveston]]'' || [[Glen Campbell]] ||-
|-
|}

===April===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[Nazz Nazz]]'' || [[Nazz]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Songs from a Room]]'' || [[Leonard Cohen]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Three Week Hero]]'' || [[P.J. Proby]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Nashville Skyline]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Green Is Blues]]'' || [[Al Green]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Johnny Winter (album)|Johnny Winter]]'' || [[Johnny Winter]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Uncle Meat]]'' || [[The Mothers of Invention]] || Soundtrack
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker album)|With a Little Help from My Friends]]'' || [[Joe Cocker]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[On the Threshold of a Dream]]'' || [[The Moody Blues]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[The Chicago Transit Authority (album)|The Chicago Transit Authority]]'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[M.P.G.]]'' || [[Marvin Gaye]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="9" style="vertical-align:top;"|-
| ''[[Taste (Taste album)|Taste]]'' || [[Taste (Irish band)|Taste]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Blue Matter (Savoy Brown album)|Blue Matter]]'' || [[Savoy Brown]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' || Various Artists || London cast
|-
| ''[[It's Our Thing]]'' || [[The Isley Brothers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Joyride (Friendsound album)|Joyride]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |title=New Album Releases for May |magazine=Billboard |date=May 3, 1969 |page=53 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1969/Billboard%201969-05-03.pdf |access-date=August 21, 2023}}</ref> || [[Phil Volk#The Brotherhood|Friendsound]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Our Mother the Mountain]]'' || [[Townes Van Zandt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Elephant Mountain]]'' || [[The Youngbloods]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Soft and Beautiful]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Soulful (Dionne Warwick album)|Soulful]]'' || [[Dionne Warwick]] ||-
|-
|}

===May===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Clouds (Joni Mitchell album)|Clouds]]'' || [[Joni Mitchell]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Beginnings (Ambrose Slade album)|Beginnings]]'' || [[Ambrose Slade]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Electronic Sound]]'' || [[George Harrison]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions]]'' || [[John Lennon]] & [[Yoko Ono]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[After the Rain (Muddy Waters album)|After the Rain]]'' || [[Muddy Waters]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere]]'' || [[Neil Young]] & [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[Rehearsals for Retirement]]'' || [[Phil Ochs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Unicorn (Tyrannosaurus Rex album)|Unicorn]]'' || [[T. Rex (band)|Tyrannosaurus Rex]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|19
| ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]'' || [[The Who]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=The+Who&ti=Tommy&format=Album|title=RIAA certifications|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Pickin' Up the Pieces (Poco album)|Pickin' Up the Pieces]]'' || [[Poco (band)|Poco]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Oar (album)|Oar]]'' || [[Skip Spence]] ||-
|-
| ''[[More Today Than Yesterday (album)|More Today Than Yesterday]]'' || [[Spiral Starecase]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[Surround Yourself with Cilla]]'' || [[Cilla Black]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|26
| ''[[Let the Sunshine In (album)|Let the Sunshine In]]'' || [[Diana Ross & the Supremes]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)|Crosby, Stills & Nash]]'' || [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]] ||Debut
|-
| rowspan="14" | –
| ''[[Stand!]]'' || [[Sly & the Family Stone]] ||-
|-
|''[[A Black Man's Soul]]''|| [[Ike Turner]] & The [[Kings of Rhythm]] ||-
|-
|''[[The Age of Aquarius (album)|The Age of Aquarius]]''||[[The 5th Dimension]]||-
|-
| ''[[The Booker T. Set]]'' || [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]] ||-
|-
| ''[[California Bloodlines]]'' || [[John Stewart (folk musician)|John Stewart]] ||-
|-
| ''[[David's Album]]'' || [[Joan Baez]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gettin' Down to It]]'' || [[James Brown]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hollies Sing Dylan]]'' || [[The Hollies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Home (Delaney & Bonnie album)|Home]]'' || [[Delaney & Bonnie]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Last Exit (Traffic album)|Last Exit]]'' || [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Meters (album)|The Meters]]'' || [[The Meters]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Motor-Cycle (album)|Motor-Cycle]]'' || [[Lotti Golden]] ||-
|-
| ''This Is Tom Jones'' || [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Young Mods' Forgotten Story]]'' || [[The Impressions (American band)|The Impressions]] ||-
|-
|}

===June===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|2
| ''[[From Elvis in Memphis]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.keithflynn.com/recording-sessions/discography_1960.html|title=1960s discography}}</ref>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[At San Quentin]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] || Live
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Folkjokeopus]]'' || [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]] || -
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[Empty Sky]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Suitable for Framing]]'' || [[Three Dog Night]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[More (soundtrack)|More]]'' ||  [[Pink Floyd]] || Soundtrack
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[Brave New World (Steve Miller Band album)|Brave New World]]'' || [[Steve Miller Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Trout Mask Replica]]'' || [[Captain Beefheart]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[3614 Jackson Highway]]'' || [[Cher]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Aoxomoxoa]]'' || [[Grateful Dead]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Chastity (soundtrack)|Chastity]]'' || [[Cher]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[First Take (album)|First Take]]'' || [[Roberta Flack]] || Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Pretties for You]]'' || [[Alice Cooper (band)|Alice Cooper]]||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[Always, Always]]'' || [[Porter Wagoner]] and [[Dolly Parton]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="14" style="vertical-align:top;" | –
| ''[[Beck-Ola]]'' || [[The Jeff Beck Group]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Deep Purple (album)|Deep Purple]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] || US; third album
|-
| ''[[It's A Beautiful Day (album)|It's a Beautiful Day]]'' || [[It's A Beautiful Day]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Best of Bee Gees]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Concerto in B. Goode]]'' || [[Chuck Berry]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama]]'' ||  [[Cass Elliot]] ||-
|-
| ''[[An Electric Storm]]'' || [[White Noise (band)|White Noise]] ||Debut
|-
|''[[In Person (Ike & Tina Turner album)|In Person]]'' 
|[[Ike & Tina Turner]] and [[The Ikettes]]
|Live
|-
| ''[[Just Good Old Rock and Roll]]'' || [[The Electric Prunes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lee Michaels (album)|Lee Michaels]]'' || [[Lee Michaels]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Love Man]]'' || [[Otis Redding]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pongo en tus manos abiertas]]'' || [[Víctor Jara]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Salty Dog]]'' || [[Procol Harum]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg]]'' || [[Jane Birkin]] and [[Serge Gainsbourg]] ||-
|}

===July===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="3"style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Five Leaves Left]]'' ||  [[Nick Drake]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Unhalfbricking]]'' ||  [[Fairport Convention]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Maybe Tomorrow (The Iveys album)|Maybe Tomorrow]]'' ||  [[Badfinger|The Iveys]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Hallelujah (album)|Hallelujah]]'' ||  [[Canned Heat]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[Happy Sad (album)|Happy Sad]]'' ||  [[Tim Buckley]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[The Soft Parade]]'' ||  [[The Doors]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Blind Faith (Blind Faith album)|Blind Faith]]'' || [[Blind Faith]] ||Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Ahead Rings Out]]'' || [[Blodwyn Pig]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Yes (Yes album)|Yes]]'' ||  [[Yes (band)|Yes]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Preflyte]]'' ||  [[The Byrds]] || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[In a Silent Way]]'' ||  [[Miles Davis]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Truly Fine Citizen]]'' ||  [[Moby Grape]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="vertical-align:top;"|-
| ''[[2525 (Exordium and Terminus)]]'' ||  [[Zager and Evans]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Early Steppenwolf]]'' || [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] || Live 1967
|-
| ''[[Here We Are Again (Country Joe and the Fish album)|Here We Are Again]]'' || [[Country Joe and the Fish]] ||-
|-
| ''[[If Only for a Moment]]'' || [[Blossom Toes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[More of Old Golden Throat]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Mountain (Leslie West album)|Mountain]]'' ||  [[Leslie West]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends]]'' || [[Delaney & Bonnie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wasa Wasa]]'' ||  [[Edgar Broughton Band]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[What About Today?]]'' ||  [[Barbra Streisand]] ||-
|-
|}

===August===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[As Safe as Yesterday Is]]'' || [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)|Stand Up]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tadpoles (album)|Tadpoles]]'' || [[Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band]] || Released on June 9 in US
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[The Stooges (album)|The Stooges]]'' || [[The Stooges]]  ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[Green River (album)|Green River]]'' || [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Creedence+Clearwater+Revival&ti=Green+River&format=Album&type=#search_section|title=RIAA|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] }}</ref>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Barabajagal]]'' || [[Donovan]]  ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[The Brothers: Isley]]'' || [[The Isley Brothers]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Mourning in the Morning]]'' || [[Otis Rush]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[Fathers and Sons (album)|Fathers and Sons]]'' || [[Muddy Waters]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[Santana (1969 album)|Santana]]'' || [[Santana (band)|Santana]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[On Time]]'' || [[Grand Funk Railroad]]  ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|27
| ''[[Boz Scaggs (album)|Boz Scaggs]]'' || [[Boz Scaggs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[My Cherie Amour (album)|My Cherie Amour]]'' || [[Stevie Wonder]]  ||-
|-
| ''[[Songs for a Tailor]]'' || [[Jack Bruce]] ||Solo debut
|-
| rowspan="8" style="vertical-align:top;"|-
| ''[[The Association (album)|The Association]]'' || [[The Association]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Give It Away (The Chi-Lites album)|Give It Away]]'' || [[The Chi-Lites]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Harry (album)|Harry]]'' || [[Harry Nilsson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[It's a Mother]]'' || [[James Brown]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Monster Movie (Can album)|Monster Movie]]'' || [[Can (band)|Can]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[The Popcorn (album)|The Popcorn]]'' || [[James Brown]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ssssh]]'' || [[Ten Years After]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Head Shop]]'' || [[The Head Shop]] ||-
|}

===September===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!]]'' || [[Janis Joplin]] || Solo debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] || Compilation
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[Easy (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album)|Easy]]'' || [[Marvin Gaye]] and [[Tammi Terrell]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|19
| ''[[Then Play On]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[The Band (album)|The Band]]'' || [[The Band]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[Hot Buttered Soul]]'' || [[Isaac Hayes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Puzzle People]]'' || [[The Temptations]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Together (The Supremes and The Temptations album)|Together]]'' || [[Diana Ross & the Supremes]] and The Temptations || Duets
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[New York Tendaberry]]'' || [[Laura Nyro]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|26
| ''[[Abbey Road]]'' || [[The Beatles]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[At Home (Shocking Blue album)|At Home]]'' || [[Shocking Blue]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Get Ready (Rare Earth album)|Get Ready]]'' || [[Rare Earth (band)|Rare Earth]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="14" style="vertical-align:top;"|-
| ''[[2 Ozs of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle]]'' || [[Man (band)|Man]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Canned Wheat]]'' || [[The Guess Who]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Four Sail]]'' || [[Love (band)|Love]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Love Chronicles]]'' || [[Al Stewart]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nice (The Nice album)|Nice]]'' || [[The Nice]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Noah (The Bob Seger System album)|Noah]]'' || [[Bob Seger|The Bob Seger System]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rock & Roll (Vanilla Fudge album)|Rock & Roll]]'' || [[Vanilla Fudge]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Aerosol Grey Machine]]'' || [[Van der Graaf Generator]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Spare Parts (album)|Spare Parts]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Step Further]]'' || [[Savoy Brown]] || Live + studio
|-
| ''[[Supersnazz]]'' || [[Flamin' Groovies|The Flamin' Groovies]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[These Things Too]]'' || [[Pearls Before Swine (band)|Pearls Before Swine]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Townes Van Zandt (album)|Townes Van Zandt]]'' || [[Townes Van Zandt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Volume Two (The Soft Machine album)|Volume Two]]'' || [[The Soft Machine]] ||-
|-
|}

===October===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Juicy Lucy (Juicy Lucy album)|Juicy Lucy]]'' || [[Juicy Lucy (band)|Juicy Lucy]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[The Monkees Present]]'' || [[The Monkees]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[Get Together with Andy Williams]]'' || [[Andy Williams]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Ticket to Ride (album)|Ticket to Ride]]'' || [[The Carpenters|Carpenters]] || Previously titled as ''Offering''. Debut
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)]]'' || [[The Kinks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hot Rats]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[In the Court of the Crimson King]]'' || [[King Crimson]] ||Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[Give Me Your Love for Christmas]]'' || [[Johnny Mathis]] || Christmas
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Elvis in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Rhymes & Reasons (John Denver album)|Rhymes and Reasons]]'' || [[John Denver]] || Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[Captured Live at the Forum]]'' || [[Three Dog Night]] || Live
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[Wedding Album]]'' || [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[Led Zeppelin II]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|27
| ''[[Second Winter]]'' || [[Johnny Winter]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Willy and the Poor Boys]]'' || [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Creedence+Clearwater+Revival&ti=Willy&format=Album&type=#search_section|title=RIAA|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="12" style="vertical-align:top;" | –
| ''[[Live at Yankee Stadium]]'' || [[The Isley Brothers]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Basket of Light]]'' || [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Affectionately Melanie]]'' || [[Melanie Safka]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Battle of North West Six]]'' || [[Keef Hartley]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Keep On Moving (The Butterfield Blues Band album)|Keep On Moving]]'' || [[The Butterfield Blues Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Clear (Spirit album)|Clear]]'' || [[Spirit (band)|Spirit]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Deviants 3]]'' || [[The Deviants (band)|The Deviants]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Free (Free album)|Free]]'' || [[Free (band)|Free]] ||-
|-
|''[[The Hunter (Ike & Tina Turner album)|The Hunter]]''
|[[Ike & Tina Turner]]
| –
|-
| ''[[Renaissance (Renaissance album)|Renaissance]]'' || [[Renaissance (band)|Renaissance]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Tom Jones Live in Las Vegas]]'' || [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Turtle Soup]]'' || [[The Turtles]] ||-
|-
|}

===November===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|3
| ''[[Cream of the Crop]]'' || [[Diana Ross & the Supremes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Four in Blue]]'' || [[The Miracles]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[The Allman Brothers Band (album)|The Allman Brothers Band]]'' || [[The Allman Brothers Band]] ||Debut
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[Ummagumma]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] || Double LP; live + studio<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pinkfloyd.com/history/timeline_1969.php|title=Pink Floyd official site}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Manfred Mann Chapter Three (album)|Manfred Mann Chapter Three]]'' || [[Manfred Mann Chapter Three]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Valentyne Suite]]'' || [[Colosseum (band)|Colosseum]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:center;"|10
| ''[[Ballad of Easy Rider (album)|Ballad of Easy Rider]]'' || [[The Byrds]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Live/Dead]]'' || [[Grateful Dead]] || Double LP; live
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:center;"|14
| ''[[David Bowie (1969 album)|David Bowie]]'' || [[David Bowie]] || Re-titled ''Space Oddity''
|-
| ''[[The Autumn Stone]]'' || [[Small Faces]] || compilation
|-
| ''[[Touching You, Touching Me]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Eight Miles High (album)|Eight Miles High]]'' || [[Golden Earring]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[To Our Children's Children's Children]]'' || [[The Moody Blues]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Blue Afternoon]]'' || [[Tim Buckley]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Almendra (Almendra album)|Almendra]]'' || [[Almendra (band)|Almendra]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="16" | -
| ''[[Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album)|Volunteers]]'' || [[Jefferson Airplane]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mott the Hoople (album)|Mott the Hoople]]'' || [[Mott the Hoople]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[A Way of Life (The Family Dogg album)|A Way of Life]]'' || [[The Family Dogg]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Scott 4]]'' || [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Changing Horses (Incredible String Band album)|Changing Horses]]''|| [[The Incredible String Band]]||-
|-
| ''[[Hollies Sing Hollies]]'' || [[The Hollies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Joe Cocker!]]'' || [[Joe Cocker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Joy of a Toy]]'' || [[Kevin Ayers]] ||Solo debut
|-
| ''[[Keynsham (album)|Keynsham]]'' || [[Bonzo Dog Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Monster (Steppenwolf album)|Monster]]'' || [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]] ||-
|-
| ''[[An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down|The Rod Stewart Album]]'' || [[Rod Stewart]] || US; released Feb. 13, 1970, in UK as ''An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down''; solo debut
|-
| ''[[Rock Salt & Nails (album)|Rock Salt & Nails]]'' || [[Steve Young (musician)|Steve Young]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Spice of Life (Marlena Shaw album)]]'' || [[Marlena Shaw]] ||-
|-
| ''[[100 Ton Chicken]]'' || [[Chicken Shack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Town and Country (album)|Town and Country]]'' || [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Your Saving Grace]]'' || [[Steve Miller Band]] ||-
|-
|}

===December===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Let It Bleed]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Completely Well]]'' || [[B.B. King]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[Live Peace in Toronto 1969]]'' || [[Plastic Ono Band]] ||Live
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5]]'' || [[The Jackson 5]] ||Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Grand Funk (album)|Grand Funk]]'' || [[Grand Funk Railroad]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Okie from Muskogee]]'' || [[Merle Haggard|Merle Haggard and the Strangers]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|31
| ''[[Out Here (Love album)|Out Here]]'' || [[Love (band)|Love]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|-
| ''[[Concerto for Group and Orchestra]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] & the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] || Live
|-
| ''[[6- and 12-String Guitar]]'' || [[Leo Kottke]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Blue Cheer (album)|Blue Cheer]]'' || [[Blue Cheer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ceremony (Spooky Tooth and Pierre Henry album)|Ceremony]]'' || [[Spooky Tooth]] and [[Pierre Henry]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Liege & Lief]]'' || [[Fairport Convention]] ||-
|-
|}

===Release date unknown===
{{div col|colwidth=50em}}
*'''69'' – [[Mount Rushmore (band)|Mount Rushmore]]
*'''69'' – [[Kenny Rogers and The First Edition|The First Edition]]
*''[[2 Bugs and a Roach]]'' – [[Earl Hooker]]
*''10 to 23'' – [[José Feliciano]]
*''25 Miles'' – [[Edwin Starr]]
*''Abraham, Martin & John'' – [[Moms Mabley]]
*''Adiós Nonino'' – [[Astor Piazzolla]]
*''After All'' – After All
*''[[Albert's House]]'' - [[Chet Baker]]
*''[[Alias Pink Puzz]]'' - [[Paul Revere & the Raiders]]
*''[[Alive (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)|Alive]]'' - [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]]
*''Alive Alive-O!'' – [[José Feliciano]]
*''[[Alma-Ville]]'' - [[Vince Guaraldi]]
*''[[Always, Always]]'' - [[Porter Wagoner]] and [[Dolly Parton]]
*''[[The American Metaphysical Circus]]'' – [[Joseph Byrd]]
*''[[Anthems in Eden]]'' – [[Shirley Collins|Shirley]] and [[Dolly Collins]] with the [[Early Music Consort of London]] directed by [[David Munrow]]
*''[[Another Voyage]]'' - [[Ramsey Lewis]]
*''[[At Home with The Dubliners]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
*''[[At Home with Lynn]]'' - [[Lynn Anderson]]
*''[[Atlantis (Sun Ra album)|Atlantis]]'' - [[Sun Ra]]
*''[[Baby I Love You (album)|Baby I Love You]]'' – [[Andy Kim (singer)|Andy Kim]]
*''[[Back in Baby's Arms]]'' - [[Connie Smith]]
*''[[The Belle of Avenue A]]'' – [[The Fugs]]
*''The Best of Cliff'' – [[Cliff Richard]]
*''[[The Best of Tommy James and The Shondells]]'' – [[Tommy James and the Shondells]]
*''[[The Biggest Thing Since Colossus]]'' - [[Otis Spann]]
*''[[Birthday (The Peddlers Album)|Birthday]]'' – [[The Peddlers]]
*''[[Black Gipsy]]'' - [[Archie Shepp]]
*''[[A Black Man's Soul]]'' - [[Ike Turner]]
*''[[Black Rhythm Happening]]'' - [[Eddie Gale]]
*''[[The Blue Potato and Other Outrages...]]'' - [[Ran Blake]]
*''Blues Obituary'' – [[The Groundhogs]]
*''[[The Blues and Other Colors]]'' - [[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]]
*''[[Blues for We]]'' - [[Mel Brown (guitarist)|Mel Brown]]
*''[[The Blues; That's Me!]]'' - [[Illinois Jacquet]]
*''[[The Boss Is Back!]]'' - [[Gene Ammons]]
*''[[Both Sides of People]]'' – [[People!]]
*''[[Arcadium#Breathe Awhile (1969)|Breathe Awhile]]'' – [[Arcadium]]
*''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'' – [[Burt Bacharach]] – Soundtrack
*''[[Caetano Veloso (1969 album)|Caetano Veloso]]'' – [[Caetano Veloso]]
*''[[Canta in Italiano (Dalida album)|Canta in Italiano]]'' – [[Dalida]]
*''[[The Charlatans (1969 album)|The Charlatans]]'' – [[The Charlatans (American band)|The Charlatans]] (debut)
*''[[The Chipmunks Go to the Movies]]'' - [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]]
*''[[The Climax Chicago Blues Band]]'' – [[Climax Blues Band]]
*''[[Cold Blood (album)|Cold Blood]]'' – [[Cold Blood (band)|Cold Blood]]
*''Country Folk'' – [[Waylon Jennings]]
*''Dizzy'' – [[Tommy Roe]]
*''Doctor Dunbar's Prescription'' – [[Aynsley Dunbar|The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation]]
*''Doing His Thing'' – [[Ray Charles]]
*''Driftin' Way of Life'' – [[Jerry Jeff Walker]]
*''[[A Drop of The Dubliners]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
*''Edwards Hand'' – [[Edwards Hand]]
*''[[Ella (Ella Fitzgerald album)|Ella]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]]
*''Engelbert'' – [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]
*''Engelbert Humperdinck'' – [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]
*''[[Everyday I Have the Blues (T-Bone Walker album)|Everyday I Have the Blues]]'' – [[T-Bone Walker]]
*''[[The Fabulous Charlie Rich]]'' – [[Charlie Rich]]
*''First Winter'' – [[Johnny Winter]]
*''[[The Arbors#Albums|Featuring: I Can't Quit Her – The Letter]]'' – [[The Arbors]]
*''[[The Flock (album)|The Flock]]'' – [[The Flock (band)|The Flock]]
*''[[For Children of All Ages]]'' – [[The Peanut Butter Conspiracy]]
*''Galveston'' – [[Lawrence Welk|The Lawrence Welk Orchestra]]
*''A Gathering of Promises'' – [[Bubble Puppy]]
*''[[Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home]]'' - [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]]
*''[[Gilberto Gil (1969 album)|Gilberto Gil]]'' – [[Gilberto Gil]]
*''[[Good Morning Starshine (album)|Good Morning Starshine]]'' – [[Oliver (singer)|Oliver]]
*''The Good Rats'' – [[The Good Rats]] (debut)
*''Grand Canyon Suite'' – [[Johnny Cash]]
*''[[The Great American Eagle Tragedy]]'' – [[Earth Opera]]
*''[[The Greatest Little Soul Band in the Land]]'' – [[J.J. Jackson (singer)|J.J. Jackson]]
*''[[A Group Called Smith]]'' – [[Smith (band)|Smith]]
*''[[Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick]]'' – [[Big Joe Williams]]
*''Hank Marvin'' – [[Hank Marvin]] (debut solo)
*''[[Happy Heart (album)|Happy Heart]]'' – Andy Williams
*''[[The House of Blue Lights (album)|The House of Blue Lights]]'' – [[Don Covay]]
*''[[The Howlin' Wolf Album]]'' – [[Howlin' Wolf]]
*''I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll'' – [[Fred McDowell|Mississippi Fred McDowell]]
*''I'm All Yours-Baby!'' – [[Ray Charles]]
*''The Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's Strangers'' – [[Merle Haggard]] & the Strangers
*''[[Introducing the Jaggerz]]'' – [[the Jaggerz]]
*''I Say a Little Prayer'' – [[Aretha Franklin]] - Compilation
*''[[Is This What You Want?]]'' – [[Jackie Lomax]]
*''[[It's The Dubliners]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
*''[[It's Not Killing Me]]'' – [[Mike Bloomfield]]
*''Jackson'' – [[Johnny Cash]]
*''Jewels of Thought'' – [[Pharoah Sanders]]
*''[[Jimmy Cliff (album)|Jimmy Cliff]]'' – [[Jimmy Cliff]]
*''Joe South's Greatest Hits Vol.1'' – [[Joe South]]
*''Johnny Cash'' – [[Johnny Cash]]
*''[[John Hartford (album)|John Hartford]]'' - [[John Hartford]]
*''[[Jorge Ben (album)|Jorge Ben]]'' – [[Jorge Ben Jor]]
*''[[Live & Well (B.B. King album)|Live & Well]]'' – B.B. King
*''[[Live at the Albert Hall]]'' – The Dubliners 
*''Live at the Inferno'' (rec. 1967) – [[Raven (American band)|Raven]] 
*''[[Love Is All We Have to Give]]'' – [[Checkmates, Ltd.]]
*''[[Ma mère me disait]]'' – [[Dalida]]
*''[[A Man Alone (album)|A Man Alone]]'' – [[Frank Sinatra]] 
*''[[Moondog (1969 album)|Moondog]]'' – [[Moondog]]
*''[[Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe]]'' – [[Albert Ayler]]
*''My Brother the Wind, Vol. 1'' – [[Sun Ra]]
*''My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2'' – Sun Ra
*''[[My Own Peculiar Way]]'' – [[Willie Nelson]]
*''[[A Natural Woman (album)|A Natural Woman]]'' – [[Peggy Lee]]
*''[[O.C. Smith at Home]]'' – [[O. C. Smith]]
*''The Open Mind'' – [[The Open Mind (band)|The Open Mind]]
*''[[Ornette at 12]]'' – [[Ornette Coleman]]
*''[[Orgasm (Cromagnon album)|Orgasm]]'' – [[Cromagnon (band)|Cromagnon]]
*''Over and Over'' – [[Nana Mouskouri]]
*''[[Pacific Gas and Electric (album)|Pacific Gas and Electric]]'' – [[Pacific Gas & Electric (band)|Pacific Gas & Electric]]
*''[[People in Sorrow]]'' – [[Art Ensemble of Chicago]]
*''[[Phallus Dei]]'' – [[Amon Düül II]]
*''[[Photographs (Patrick Sky album)|Photographs]]'' – [[Patrick Sky]] 
*''Rainbow Ride'' – [[Andy Kim (singer)|Andy Kim]]
*''Raven'' – [[Raven (American band)|Raven]]
*''Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town'' – [[Kenny Rogers and The First Edition]]
*''[[Same Train, a Different Time]]'' – [[Merle Haggard|Merle Haggard & the Strangers]]
*''Sea Shanties'' – [[High Tide (band)|High Tide]]
*''[[Seattle (album)|Seattle]]'' – [[Perry Como]]
*''[[The Second Brooklyn Bridge]]'' – [[The Brooklyn Bridge (band)|The Brooklyn Bridge]] 
*''[[Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things]]'' – [[John Coltrane]]
*''[[The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children]]'' – [[The Simon Sisters]]
*''Soul Shakedown'' – [[Bob Marley & The Wailers]] (debut)
*''[[Spirit in the Sky (album)|Spirit in the Sky]]'' – [[Norman Greenbaum]] 
*''[[Sunshine of Your Love (album)|Sunshine of Your Love]]'' – Ella Fitzgerald
*''Take a Message to Mary'' – [[Don Cherry (singer)|Don Cherry]]
*''Terry Reid'' – [[Terry Reid]]
*''[[The Belle of Avenue A]]'' – [[The Fugs]]
*''[[Thesaurus (album)|Thesaurus]]'' – [[Clare Fischer]]
*''[[This Is Desmond Dekkar]]'' – [[Desmond Dekker]]
*''Thunder On A Clear Day'' – [[Twentieth Century Zoo]]
*''[[Touching You, Touching Me]]'' – [[Neil Diamond]] 
*''Trogglomania'' – [[The Troggs]]
*''[[The Turning Point (John Mayall album)|The Turning Point]]'' – [[John Mayall]] 
*''[[U.F.O. (album)|U.F.O.]]'' – [[Jim Sullivan (singer-songwriter)|Jim Sullivan]]
*''[[Walking in Space]]'' – [[Quincy Jones]]
*''[[Wanted Dead or Alive (Warren Zevon album)|Wanted Dead or Alive]]'' – [[Warren Zevon]]
*''Waylon Jennings'' – [[Waylon Jennings]]
*''Wonder Where I'm Bound'' – [[Dion DiMucci]]
*''[[Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (album)|Yummy Yummy Yummy]]'' – [[Julie London]]
{{div col end}}

==Billboard Top popular records of 1969==
from ''Billboard'' December 27, 1969

TOP RECORDS OF 1969 (Based on Billboard Charts)
The information compiled for the Top Records of 1969 was based on the weekly chart positioning and length of time records were on the respective charts from the Billboard issue dates of January 4, 1969, through December 13, 1969. These recaps, as well as the weekly charts, do not reflect actual sales figures. The ratings take into account the number of weeks the disk was on the chart, plus the weekly positions it held during its chart life. Each disk was given points accordingly for its respective chart. These recaps were compiled by the staff of the Billboard Popularity Charts Department, under the direction of Andy Tomko.
NOTE: Since the singles charts listed the most popular single sides and not the single record (with both sides) for the first 47 weeks of the year, the recaps list single sides in order of strength. In the case of a two-sided hit single, both sides were listed in the recaps based on the individual strength on the weekly chart.

The 1969 Billboard year-end list is composed of records that entered the [[Billboard Hot 100#History|Billboard Hot 100]] during November–December 1968 (only when the majority of chart weeks were in 1969), January to November–December 1969 (majority of chart weeks in 1969). Records with majority of chart weeks in 1968 or 1970 are included in the year-end charts for those years, respectively, and multiple appearances are not permitted. Each week thirty points were awarded to the number one record, then nineteen points for number two, eighteen points for number three, and so on. The total points a record earned determined its year-end rank. The complete chart life of each record is represented. There are no ties, even when multiple records have the same number of points. The next ranking category is peak chart position, then weeks at peak chart position, weeks in top ten, weeks in top forty, and finally weeks on Hot 100 chart.

The chart can be sorted by Artist, Song title, Recording and Release dates, Cashbox year-end ranking (CB) or units sold (sales) by clicking on the column header. Additional details for each record can be accessed by clicking on the song title, and referring to the Infobox in the right column of the song page. [https://www.billboard.com/charts/ Billboard also has chart summaries] on its website. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081205052949/http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1969YESP.html Cashbox rankings] were derived by same process as the Billboard rankings. Sales information was derived from the [https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/ RIAA's Gold and Platinum database], the [https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/ BRIT Certified database]  and The Book of Golden Discs,<ref name=goldendiscs>{{Cite book |last=Murrells |first=Joseph |url=http://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr |title=The book of golden discs |date=1978 |publisher=London : Barrie & Jenkins |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-214-20512-5}}</ref> but numbers listed should be regarded as estimates. [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] and [[National Recording Registry]] information with sources can be found on Wikipedia. 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[Billboard Hot 100|Rank]] 
! Artist
! Title
! Label
! Recorded
! Release Date
! CB
! Sales
! Charts, Awards
|-
| 1 || [[The 5th Dimension]] || "[[Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In|Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)]]" || Soul City 772 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1, 1969 || 1 || 8.00<ref name=goldendiscs/> || US Billboard 1969 #1, Hot100 #1 for 6 weeks, 17 total weeks, 284 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2004
|-
| 2 || [[The Archies]] || "[[Sugar, Sugar]]" || Calendar 63-1008 || {{Date table sorting|196904}}|April 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 24, 1969 || 2 || 6.00 || US Billboard 1969 #2, Hot100 #1 for 4 weeks, 22 total weeks, 270 points
|-
| 3 || [[The Rolling Stones]] || "[[Honky Tonk Women]]" || London 910 || {{Date table sorting|196906}}|June 12, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 11, 1969 || 3 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #3, Hot100 #1 for 4 weeks, 15 total weeks, 242 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2014
|-
| 4 || [[The Beatles]] with [[Billy Preston]] || "[[Get Back]]" || Apple 2490 || {{Date table sorting|196901}}|January 28, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 5, 1969 || 4 || 8.00<ref>{{cite book|first=Walter|last=Everett|author-link=Walter Everett (musicologist)|year=1999|title=The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-19-509553-7}}</ref> || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #3, US Billboard 1969 #4, Hot100 #1 for 5 weeks, 12 total weeks, 226 points
|-
| 5 || [[Zager and Evans]] || "[[In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)]]" || RCA Victor 74-0174 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196904}}|April 1969 || 5 || 8.00 || US Billboard 1969 #5, Hot100 #1 for 6 weeks, 13 total weeks, 224 points
|-
| 6 || [[Sly and the Family Stone]] || "[[Everyday People]]" || Epic 10407 || {{Date table sorting|196809}}|September 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|November 1, 1968 || 7 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #6, Hot100 #1 for 4 weeks, 19 total weeks, 218 points
|-
| 7 || [[Tommy James and the Shondells]] || "[[Crimson And Clover]]" || Roulette 7028 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|November 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 1968 || 14 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #7, Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 216 points
|-
| 8 || [[Tommy Roe]] || "[[Dizzy (Tommy Roe song)|Dizzy]]" || ABC 11164 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|November 13, 1968 || 9 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #8, Hot100 #1 for 4 weeks, 15 total weeks, 204 points
|-
| 9 || [[The Temptations]] || "[[I Can't Get Next To You]]" || Gordy 7093 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 3, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 30, 1969 || 19 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #9, Hot100 #1 for 2 week, 17 total weeks,<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The Temptations |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-temptations/ |access-date=2023-01-24 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref> 204 points, '''Top Soul Singles 1969 #1''', Hot Soul Singles #1 for 5 weeks, 15 total weeks, 288 points
|-
| 10 || [[Peter, Paul and Mary]] || "[[Leaving on a Jet Plane]]" || Warner Bros. 7340 || {{Date table sorting|196612}}|December 1966 || {{Date table sorting|196909}}|September 18, 1969 || 13 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #10, Hot100 #1 for 1 week, 17 total weeks, 197 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1969 #5, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 3 weeks, 16 total weeks, 212 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 1998
|-
| 11 || The 5th Dimension || "[[Wedding Bell Blues]]" || Soul City 779 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196909}}|September 1969 || 6 || 8.00 || US Billboard 1969 #11, Hot100 #1 for 3 weeks, 15 total weeks, 193 points
|-
| 12 || The Beatles || "[[Come Together]]" || Apple 2654 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 30, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196910}}|October 6, 1969 || 10 || 8.00 || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #7, US Billboard 1969 #12, Hot100 #1 for 1 week, 16 total weeks, 186 points
|-
| 13 || [[The Supremes|Diana Ross and the Supremes]] || "[[Someday We'll Be Together]]" || Motown 1156 || {{Date table sorting|196906}}|June 13, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196910}}|October 14, 1969 || 12 || 2.00 || US Billboard 1969 #13, Hot100 #1 for 1 week, 16 total weeks, 181 points, Top Soul Singles 1969 #3, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 4 weeks, 15 total weeks, 254 points
|-
| 14 || The Beatles || "[[Something (Beatles song)|Something]]" || Apple 2654 || {{Date table sorting|196908}}|August 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196910}}|October 6, 1969 || 26 || 8.00 || US Billboard 1969 #14, Hot100 #1 for 1 week, 16 total weeks, 177 points
|-
| 15 || [[Steam (band)|Steam]]|| "[[Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye]]" || Fontana 1667 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196908}}|August 1969 || 31 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #15, Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 170 points
|-
| 16 || [[Henry Mancini|Henry Mancini, His Orchestra And Chorus]] || "[[Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet]]" || Uni 55066 || {{Date table sorting|196902}}|February 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || 17 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #16, Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 168 points
|-
| 17 || [[The Cowsills]] || "[[Hair (Hair song)|Hair]]" || MGM 13810 || {{Date table sorting|196901}}|January 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196902}}|February 1969 || 8 || 1.00<ref name=goldendiscs/> || US Billboard 1969 #17, Hot100 #2 for 2 weeks, 15 total weeks, 158 points
|-
| 18 || Tommy James and the Shondells || "[[Crystal Blue Persuasion]]" || Atlantic 2537 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|November 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 1969 || 35 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #18, Hot100 #2 for 3 weeks, 15 total weeks, 157 points
|-
| 19 || [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] || "[[Proud Mary]]" || Fantasy 619 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 28, 1968 || 36 || 1.25 || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #4, US Billboard 1969 #19, Hot100 #2 for 3 weeks, 14 total weeks, 149 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 1998
|-
| 20 || [[The Foundations]] || "[[Build Me Up Buttercup]]" || Uni 55101 || {{Date table sorting|196804}}|April 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 3, 1968 || 11 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #20, Hot100 #3 for 3 weeks, 15 total weeks, 148 points
|-
| 21 || [[Elvis Presley]] || "[[Suspicious Minds]]" || RCA Victor 47-9764 || {{Date table sorting|196901}}|January 22, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196908}}|August 26, 1969 || 15 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #21, Hot100 #1 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 144 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 1999
|-
| 22 || Sly and the Family Stone || "[[Hot Fun in the Summertime]]" || Epic 10555 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 21, 1969 || 68 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #22, Hot100 #2 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 143 points
|-
| 23 || [[Blood, Sweat & Tears|Blood, Sweat and Tears]] || "[[Spinning Wheel (song)|Spinning Wheel]]" || Columbia 44871 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 1969 || 30 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #23, Hot100 #2 for 3 weeks, 13 total weeks, 141 points
|-
| 24 || Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations || "[[I'm Gonna Make You Love Me]]" || Motown 1135 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|November 21, 1968 || 20 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #24, Hot100 #2 for 2 weeks, 13 total weeks, 140 points
|-
| 25 || [[Oliver (singer)|Oliver]]|| "[[Jean (song)|Jean]]" || Crewe 334 || {{Date table sorting|196904}}|April 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 1969 || 27 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #25, Hot100 #2 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 139 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1969 #4, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 4 weeks, 14 total weeks, 232 points
|-
| 26 || [[Neil Diamond]] || "[[Sweet Caroline|Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)]]" || Uni 55136 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 31, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 28, 1969 || 34 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #26, Hot100 #4 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 138 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2020, National Recording Registry 2018
|-
| 27 || [[Led Zeppelin]] || "[[Whole Lotta Love]]" || Atlantic 2690 || {{Date table sorting|196908}}|August 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196911}}|November 7, 1969 || 18 || 6.00 || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #2, US Billboard 1969 #27, Hot100 #4 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 137 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2007
|-
| 28 || [[Johnny Cash]] || "[[A Boy Named Sue]]" || Columbia 44944 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 7, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 2, 1969 || 28 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #28, Hot100 #2 for 3 weeks, 12 total weeks, 136 points, Top Country Singles 1969 #4, Country Singles #1 for 5 weeks, 14 total weeks, 220 points, National Recording Registry 2003
|-
| 29 || [[Three Dog Night]] || "[[One (Harry Nilsson song)|One]]" || Dunhill 4191 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196904}}|April 1969 || 24 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #29, Hot100 #5 for 3 weeks, 16 total weeks, 136 points
|-
| 30 || Creedence Clearwater Revival || "[[Bad Moon Rising (song)|Bad Moon Rising]]" || Fantasy 622 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196904}}|April 1969 || 33 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #30, Hot100 #2 for 1 weeks, 14 total weeks, 135 points
|-
| 31 || The Doors || "[[Touch Me (The Doors song)|Touch Me]]" || T-Neck 901 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|November 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 1968 || 16 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #31, Hot100 #3 for 1 week, 13 total weeks, 135 points
|-
| 32 || [[The Isley Brothers]] || "[[It's Your Thing]]" || T-Neck 901 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || 25 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #32, Hot100 #2 for 1 week, 14 total weeks, 133 points, Top Soul Singles 1969 #6, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 4 weeks, 14 total weeks, 240 points
|-
| 33 || Creedence Clearwater Revival || "[[Green River (song)|Green River]]" || Fantasy 625 || {{Date table sorting|196906}}|June 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}}|July 1969 || 41 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #33, Hot100 #2 for 1 weeks, 13 total weeks, 132 points
|-
| 34 || Blood, Sweat and Tears || "[[You've Made Me So Very Happy]]" || Columbia 44776 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 16, 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196902}}|February 1969 || 29 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #34, Hot100 #2 for 3 weeks, 13 total weeks, 131 points
|-
| 35 || Blood, Sweat and Tears || "[[And When I Die]]" || Columbia 45000 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 16, 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196909}}|September 30, 1969 || 22 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #35, Hot100 #2 for 1 week, 13 total weeks, 128 points
|-
| 36 || [[Marvin Gaye]] || "[[Too Busy Thinking About My Baby]]" || Tamla 54181 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196904}}|April 2, 1969 || 60 || 6.00 || US Billboard 1969 #36, Hot100 #4 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 126 points, Top Soul Singles 1969 #2, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 6 weeks, 15 total weeks, 279 points
|-
| 37 || Creedence Clearwater Revival || "[[Down on the Corner]]" || Fantasy 634 || {{Date table sorting|196908}}|August 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196910}}|October 1969 || 100 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1969 #37, Hot100 #3 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 125 points
|}

=== Billboard Top Soul Singles 1969 ===
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| 1 || The Temptations || "I Can't Get Next To You" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 9]].
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| 2 || Marvin Gaye || "Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 36]].
|-
| 3 || Diana Ross and the Supremes || "Someday We'll Be Together" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 13]].
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| 4 || [[Jr. Walker & The All Stars]] || "[[What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)]]" || Soul 35062 || {{Date table sorting|196808}}|August 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 1968 || 52 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #43, Hot100 #5 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 113 points, Top Soul Singles 1969 #4, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 244 points
|-
| 5 || [[The Originals (band)|The Originals]] || "[[Baby, I'm For Real]]" || Soul 35066 || {{Date table sorting|196808}}|August 7, 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196808}}|August 1968 || 160 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #84, Hot100 #10 for 1 week, 11 total weeks, 59 points, Top Soul Singles 1969 #5, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 5 weeks, 17 total weeks, 243 points
|-
| 6 || The Isley Brothers || "It's Your Thing" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 32]].
|}

=== Billboard Top Country Singles 1969 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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| 1 || Johnny Cash || "[[Daddy Sang Bass]]" || Columbia 44689 || {{Date table sorting|196809}} |September 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196811}} |November 6, 1968 || 187 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #286, Hot100 #42 for 2 weeks, 12 total weeks, '''Top Country Singles 1969 #1''', Country Singles #1 for 6 weeks, 20 total weeks, 269 points
|-
| 2 || [[Charley Pride]] || "[[(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again]]" || RCA Victor 0265 || {{Date table sorting|196808}} |August 28, 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196910}} |October 1969 || 179 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #479, Hot100 #74 for 1 week, 16 total weeks, 4 points, Top Country Singles 1969 #2, Country Singles #1 for 3 weeks, 16 total weeks, 238 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 1999, National Recording Registry 2010
|-
| 3 || [[Merle Haggard|Merle Haggard and The Strangers]] || "[[Okie From Muskogee]]" || Capitol 2626 || {{Date table sorting|196907}} |August 17, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196909}} |September 29, 1969 || 179 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #427, Hot100 #63 for 1 week, 6 total weeks, Top Country Singles 1969 #3, Country Singles #1 for 4 weeks, 16 total weeks, 227 points
|-
| 4 || Johnny Cash || "A Boy Named Sue" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 28]]. 
|-
| 5 || Sonny James || "[[Only the Lonely]]" || Capitol 2370 || {{Date table sorting|196812}} |December 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196901}} |January 1969 || 187 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #580, Hot100 #92 for 2 weeks, 4 total weeks, Top Country Singles 1969 #5, Country Singles #1 for 3 weeks, 16 total weeks, 206 points
|}

| Top Easy Listening Singles 1969
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|-
| 1 || [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] || "[[I've Gotta Be Me]]" || Reprise 0779 || {{Date table sorting|196810}}|October 26, 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196812}}|December 14, 1968 || 44 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #98, Hot100 #11 for 1 week, 16 total weeks, 47 points, '''Top Easy Listening Singles 1969 #1''', Easy Listening Singles #1 for 7 weeks, 20 total weeks, 320 points 
|-
| 2 || [[Glen Campbell]] || "[[Galveston (song)|Galveston]]" || Capitol 2428 || {{Date table sorting|196903}}|March 18, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196905}}|May 2, 1969 || 44 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #46, Hot100 #4 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, 107 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1969 #2, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 6 weeks, 13 total weeks, 245 points 
|-
| 3 || [[Frankie Laine]] || "[[You Gave Me a Mountain]]" || ABC 11174 || {{Date table sorting|196811}}|Nov 25, 1968 || {{Date table sorting|196901}}|Jan 4, 1969 || 44 || 1.00 || US Billboard 1969 #171, Hot100 #24 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks, Top Easy Listening Singles 1969 #3, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 242 points 
|-
| 4 || Oliver || "Jean" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 25]] 
|-
| 5 || Peter, Paul & Mary || "Leavin' On A Jet Plane" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 10]] 
|}

=== Top Rock Tracks 1969 (unofficial) ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| 1 || [[The Allman Brothers Band]] || "[[Whipping Post (song)|Whipping Post]]" || Atco 308 || {{Date table sorting|196908}} |August 7, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196911}} |November 4, 1969 || 44 ||  || '''Top Rock Tracks 1969 #1''', from [[The Allman Brothers Band (album)|The Allman Brothers Band - Atco 308]]
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| 2 || Led Zeppelin || "Whole Lotta Love" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 27]], from [[Led Zeppelin II|Led Zeppelin II - Atlantic 8236]].
|-
| 3 || The Beatles || "Get Back" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 4]], from Apple single 2490.
|-
| 4 || Creedence Clearwater Revival || "Proud Mary" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 19]], from [[Bayou Country (album)|Bayou Country - Fantasy 8387]].
|-
| 5 || [[Blind Faith]] || "[[Can't Find My Way Home]]" || Atco 304 || {{Date table sorting|196903}} |March 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196908}} |August 1969 || ||  || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #5, from [[Blind Faith (Blind Faith album)|Blind Faith - Atco 304]]
|-
| 6 || [[The Who]] || "[[We're Not Gonna Take It (The Who song)|We're Not Gonna Take It]]" || Decca 732519 || {{Date table sorting|196902}} |February 7, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196907}} |July 5, 1969 || 422 ||  || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #6, US Billboard 1969 #250b, from [[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy - Decca 7205]]
|-
| 7 || The Beatles || "Come Together" || || || || || || [[#Billboard Top popular records of 1969|see number 12]], from [[Abbey Road|Abbey Road - Apple 383]].
|-
| 8 || [[Neil Young|Neil Young with Crazy Horse]] || "[[Down by the River (Neil Young song)|Down by the River]]" || Reprise 0836 || {{Date table sorting|196901}} |January 17, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196905}} |May 14, 1969 || || 1.00 || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #8, from [[Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere|Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Reprise 6349]]
|-
| 9 || [[The Rolling Stones]] || "[[Gimme Shelter]]" || London 4 || {{Date table sorting|196910}} |October 26, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196912}} |December 5, 1969 || ||  || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #9, from [[Let It Bleed|Let It Bleed - London 4]].
|-
| 10 || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] || "[[Living in the Past (song)|Living in the Past]]" || Island 6056 || {{Date table sorting|196903}} |March 18, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196905}} |May 2, 1969 || ||  || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #10, from [[Island Records|Island]] single 6056.
|-
| 11 || [[The Rolling Stones]] || "[[Midnight Rambler]]" || London 4 || {{Date table sorting|196903}} |March 11, 1969 || {{Date table sorting|196912}} |December 5, 1969 || ||  || Top Rock Tracks 1969 #11, from Let It Bleed - London 4.
|}

==Other hit singles==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em| 
*"Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara/Dieci ragazze" – [[Lucio Battisti]] #4 Italy<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_weeks/|title=Singoli più venduti - classifica settimanale|access-date=19 June 2009|language=it}}</ref>
*"[[Ajax, Olé Olé Olé]]" – [[Willy Alberti]]
*"[[Albatross (composition)|Albatross]]" – [[Fleetwood Mac]]
*"[[Atlantis (Donovan song)|Atlantis]]" – [[Donovan]]
*"[[Baby, I Love You]]" – [[Andy Kim (singer)|Andy Kim]] #1 Canada, #9 US
*"[[Badge (song)|Badge]]" – [[Cream (band)|Cream]]
*"[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]" – [[The Beatles]]
*"[[Ball of Fire (song)|Ball of Fire]]" – [[Tommy James and the Shondells]] #8 Canada
*"[[Behind a Painted Smile]]" – [[The Isley Brothers]]
*"[[Blackberry Way]]" – [[The Move]]
*"[[Black Pearl (Checkmates, Ltd. song)|Black Pearl]]" – [[Checkmates, Ltd.]]#5 NZ
*"[[Boom Bang-a-Bang]]" – [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]]
*"[[The Boxer]]" – [[Simon & Garfunkel]]
*"[[Break Away (The Beach Boys song)|Break Away]]" – [[The Beach Boys]]
*"[[Bringing on Back the Good Times]]" – [[Love Affair (band)|Love Affair]]
*"[[But You Know I Love You]]" – [[The First Edition (band)|The First Edition]]
*"[[(Call Me) Number One]]" – [[The Tremeloes]] #2 UK<!--<ref>{{singlechart|UKsinglesbyname|2|artist=Tremeloes|artistid=12852|rowheader=true|refname=uk}}</ref>-->
*"[[Cloud Nine (The Temptations song)|Cloud Nine]]" – [[The Temptations]]
*"Come Back and Shake Me" – [[Clodagh Rodgers]]
*"Conversations" – [[Cilla Black]]
*"Weine Nicht,Kleine Eva" – [[Die Flippers]]
*"[[Do Your Thing (Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band song)|Do Your Thing]]" – [[Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band]]
*"[[Don't Forget to Remember]]" – The [[Bee Gees]]
*"[[Don't Give In to Him]]" – [[Gary Puckett & The Union Gap]]
*"[[Early in the Morning (Vanity Fare song)|Early in the Morning]]" – [[Vanity Fare]]
*"[[Easy to Be Hard]]" – [[Three Dog Night]]
*"[[First of May (Bee Gees song)|First of May]]" – The [[Bee Gees]]
*"Frozen Orange Juice" – [[Peter Sarstedt]]
*"[[Gentle on My Mind (song)|Gentle on My Mind]]" – [[Dean Martin]]
*"[[Get Together (Chet Powers song)|Get Together]]" – [[The Youngbloods]]
*"[[Gimme Gimme Good Lovin']]" – [[Crazy Elephant]]
*"[[Give Peace a Chance]]" – [[Plastic Ono Band]]
*"[[Going in Circles]]" – [[Friends of Distinction]]
*"[[Good Morning Starshine]]" – [[Oliver (singer)|Oliver]]
*"Good Times (Better Times)" – Cliff Richard
*"[[Goodbye (Mary Hopkin song)|Goodbye]]" – [[Mary Hopkin]]
*"Goodnight Midnight" –  [[Clodagh Rodgers]]
*"[[Grazing in the Grass]]" – [[The Friends of Distinction]]
*"[[Happy Heart]]" – [[Andy Williams]]
*"[[Hare Krishna (mantra)|Hare Krishna Mantra]]" – [[Radha Krsna Temple|Radha Krishna Temple]]
*"[[Hawaii Five-O (album)|Hawaii Five-O]]" – [[The Ventures]]
*"[[He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother]]" – [[The Hollies]]
*"Hello Susie" – [[Amen Corner (band)|Amen Corner]] #4 UK
*"[[Hooked on a Feeling (song)|Hooked on a Feeling]]" – [[B. J. Thomas]]
*"[[I Can Hear Music]]" – The Beach Boys
*"[[(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice]]" – [[Amen Corner (band)|Amen Corner]] #1 UK
*"[[I'll Never Fall In Love Again]]" – [[Bobbie Gentry]]
*"[[I'm Gonna Make You Mine (Lou Christie song)|I'm Gonna Make You Mine]]" – [[Lou Christie]]
*"[[I'm Livin' in Shame]]" – Diana Ross & the Supremes #3 Netherlands
*"[[Indian Giver (song)|Indian Giver]]" – [[1910 Fruitgum Company]] #5 US
*"[[In the Ghetto]]" – [[Elvis Presley]]
*"[[Israelites (song)|Israelites]]" – [[Desmond Dekker|Desmond Dekker and the Aces]]
*"[[I Started a Joke]]" – The [[Bee Gees]] #1 Brazil, Denmark, NZ
*"[[It Miek]]" – Desmond Dekker and the Aces
*"[[It's Getting Better]]" – [[Cass Elliot|"Mama" Cass Elliot]]
*"[[Je t'aime... moi non plus]]" – [[Jane Birkin]] & [[Serge Gainsbourg]]
*"[[Jingle Jangle (The Archies song)|Jingle Jangle]]" – [[The Archies]] #1 Canada
*"[[Laughing (The Guess Who song)|Laughing]]" – [[The Guess Who]] #1 Canada
*"[[Lay Lady Lay]]" – [[Bob Dylan]]
*"[[The Liquidator (song)|The Liquidator]]" – [[Harry J|Harry J All Stars]] #9 UK
*"L'homme a l'harmonica" – [[Ennio Morricone]]
*"[[Ljuva sextital]]" – [[Brita Borg]] #2 Sweden
*"[[Love (Can Make You Happy)]]" – [[Mercy (band)|Mercy]] #2 US
*"[[Love Me Tonight (Tom Jones song)|Love Me Tonight]]" – [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] #9 UK
*"[[Make Me An Island]]" – [[Joe Dolan]] #2, BEL, IRE, SA, UK
*"[[Man of the World (song)|Man of the World]]" – [[Fleetwood Mac]]
*"[[Melting Pot (song)|Melting Pot]]" – [[Blue Mink]]
*"Mon bel amour d'été" – [[Mireille Mathieu]]
*"[[More Today Than Yesterday]]" – [[Spiral Starecase]] #6 Canada
*"[[My Cherie Amour (song)|My Cherie Amour]]" – Stevie Wonder
*"[[My Sentimental Friend]]" – [[Herman's Hermits]]
*"[[My Way]]" – [[Frank Sinatra]]
*"[[Natural Born Bugie]]" – [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]]
*"[[Nobody's Child (Hank Snow song)|Nobody's Child]]" – [[Karen Young (British singer)|Karen Young]] #6 UK
*"[[Oh Happy Day]]" – [[Edwin Hawkins Singers]]
*"[[Oh Well (song)|Oh Well]]" – Fleetwood Mac
*"[[The Onion Song]]" – Marvin Gaye & [[Tammi Terrell]]
*"Pastorale" – [[Ramses Shaffy]] & [[Liesbeth List]]
*"[[Pinball Wizard]]" – [[The Who]]
*"[[Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head]]" – B. J. Thomas
*"[[Reuben James (Kenny Rogers and The First Edition song)|Reuben James]]" – [[The First Edition (band)|Kenny Rogers and The First Edition]]
*"[[Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town]]" – [[The First Edition (band)|Kenny Rogers and The First Edition]]
*"[[Runaway Child, Running Wild|Run Away Child, Running Wild]]" – [[The Temptations]]
*"[[Saved by the Bell (song)|Saved By The Bell]]" – [[Robin Gibb]]
*"[[Something in the Air (song)|Something in the Air]]" – [[Thunderclap Newman]] #1 UK
*"[[Something's Happening (song)|Something's Happening]]" – [[Herman's Hermits]]
*"[[Son Of A Preacher Man]]"- [[Dusty Springfield]]
*"[[Sorry Suzanne]]" – [[The Hollies]]
*"[[Soul Deep (Box Tops song)|Soul Deep]]" – [[The Box Tops]]
*"[[Am I the Same Girl|Soulful Strut]]" – [[Young-Holt Unlimited]] #1 Canada
*"[[Space Oddity]]" – [[David Bowie]]
*"[[Surround Yourself with Sorrow]]" – [[Cilla Black]]
*"[[Sweet Cherry Wine]]" – [[Tommy James and the Shondells]]
*"[[That's The Way God Planned It]]" – [[Billy Preston]]
*"[[These Eyes]]" – [[The Guess Who]]
*"[[This Girl Is a Woman Now]]" – [[Gary Puckett & The Union Gap]] #3 Canada
*"[[This Girl's In Love With You]]" – [[Dionne Warwick]]
*"[[Time Is Tight]]" – [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]]
*"[[Time of the Season]]" – [[The Zombies]] #1 Canada
*"[[To Love Somebody (song)|To Love Somebody]]" – [[Nina Simone]]
*"[[Traces (song)|Traces]]" – [[Classics IV]] #2 US
*"[[Tracy (The Cuff Links song)|Tracy]]" – [[Cuff Links]]
*"[[Two Little Boys]]" – [[Rolf Harris]] #1 UK
*"Viva Bobby Joe" – [[The Equals]]
*"[[The Wedding Cake]]" - [[Connie Francis]]
*"[[When I Die (Motherlode song)|When I Die]]" – [[Motherlode (band)|Motherlode]] #1 Canada
*"[[Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?]]" – [[Peter Sarstedt]]
*"[[Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley song)|Who Do You Love?]]" – [[Juicy Lucy (band)|Juicy Lucy]]
*"Why?" – [[The Cats (Dutch band)|The Cats]] #1 NL<ref>{{cite web |title=Nederlandse Top 40 - week 12, 1969|url=http://www.top40.nl/index.aspx?week=12&jaar=1969 |accessdate=2010-03-13|language=nl}}</ref>
*"[[Worst That Could Happen]]" – [[The Brooklyn Bridge (band)|The Brooklyn Bridge]] #1 Canada
*"[[Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday]]" – Stevie Wonder
*"[[You Showed Me]]" – [[The Turtles]] #5 NL
}}

==Published popular music==
* ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]'': all songs by [[Sherman Edwards]]
* "[[Aa Jaane Jaan]]" w. [[Rajendra Krishan]], m. [[Laxmikant–Pyarelal]], from the film ''[[Intaqam]]''
* "The April Fools" w. [[Hal David]] m. [[Burt Bacharach]] from the film ''[[The April Fools]]''
* "[[Bad Moon Rising (song)|Bad Moon Rising]]" w.m. [[John Fogerty|John C. Fogerty]]
* "[[The Brady Bunch]] theme", by [[Frank DeVol]]
* "[[Bridge over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge over Troubled Water]]" w.m. [[Paul Simon]]
* "[[Didn't We (Richard Harris song)|Didn't We?]]" w.m. [[Jimmy Webb]]
* "[[Down on the Corner]]" w.m. John C. Fogerty
* "[[Everybody's Talkin']]" w.m. Fred Neil
* "Hawaii Five-O" m. [[Morton Stevens|Mort Stevens]]
* [[If You Could Read My Mind]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Gordon Lightfoot]]
* "[[In The Ghetto]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m.[[Mac Davis]]
* "[[Is That All There Is?]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Jerry Leiber]] & [[Mike Stoller]]
* "[[Israelites (song)|Israelites]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Desmond Dekker]] & Leslie Kong
* "Keem-O-Sabe" m. Bernard Binnick & Bernice Borisoff
* "[[Jean (song)|Jean]]" w.m. [[Rod McKuen]] from the film ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]''
* "Just Leave Everything to Me" w.m. [[Jerry Herman]], from the film version of ''[[Hello, Dolly! (film)|Hello, Dolly!]]''
* "[[Leaving on a Jet Plane]]" w.m. [[John Denver]]
* "[[Le métèque]]" w.m. [[Georges Moustaki]]
* "[[Marrakesh Express]]" w.m. [[Graham Nash]]
* "[[Mere Sapno Ki Rani]]" w. [[Anand Bakshi]], m. [[Sachin Dev Burman]], from the film ''[[Aradhana (1969 film)|Aradhana]]''
* "[[Mná na hÉireann]]" w. [[Peadar Ó Doirnín]], m. [[Seán Ó Riada]]
* "Odds and Ends (Of a Beautiful Love Affair)" w. [[Hal David]] m. Burt Bacharach
* "Piddle, Twiddle And Resolve"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Sherman Edwards
* "[[Proud Mary]]" w.m. [[John Fogerty|John C. Fogerty]]
* "[[Put a Little Love in Your Heart]]" w.m. [[Jimmy Holiday]], Randy Myers & [[Jackie DeShannon]]
* "[[Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.[[Hal David]] m. Burt Bacharach.  Introduced by [[B. J. Thomas]] on the soundtrack of the film ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. The song won the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]].
* "[[Suspicious Minds]]" w.m. Fred Zambon
* "[[Sweet Caroline]]" w.m. [[Neil Diamond]]
* "[[Teddybjörnen Fredriksson]]" w.m. [[Lasse Berghagen]]
* "[[What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?]]" w. [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman]] m. [[Michel Legrand]]
* "Yellow River" w.m. [[Christie (band)|Christie]]
* "You Don't Love Me When I Cry" w.m. [[Laura Nyro]]

==[[European classical music|Classical music]]==
*[[Rob du Bois]]
**''Because Going Nowhere Takes a Long Time'', version for soprano, clarinet, and piano 
**''Enigma'', for flute, bass clarinet, percussion, and piano
**''Jeu'', for oboe
**''Pastorale I'', for oboe, clarinet, and harp (revised version)
**''Réflexions sur le jour où Pérotin le Grand ressuscitera'', for wind quintet
**''Souvenir'', for violin
**''Symposion'', for oboe, violin, viola, and cello
**''Trio agitato'', for horn, trombone, and tuba
*[[Benjamin Britten]] 
** Suite for harp, Op. 83
** ''[[Who Are These Children?]]'', song cycle for tenor and piano, Op. 84
*[[Gavin Bryars]] – ''The Sinking of the Titanic''
*[[Sylvano Bussotti]] – ''Rara Requiem''
*[[Gian Paolo Chiti]] – Violin Concerto
*[[George Crumb]]
**''Night of the Four Moons'' for alto, alto flute/piccolo, banjo, electric cello, and percussion
**''Madrigals, Books III'' (for soprano, harp, and percussion) and ''Books IV'' for soprano, flute/alto flute/piccolo, harp, double bass, and percussion
*[[Mario Davidovsky]] – ''Synchronisms No. 5'' for percussion players and tape
*[[Peter Maxwell Davies]] – ''St Thomas Wake''
*[[Vagn Holmboe]] – String Quartet no. 10, Op. 102
*[[György Ligeti]] – ''[[Ramifications (Ligeti)|Ramifications]]'' for 12 solo strings (1968–69)
*[[Francis Jackson (composer)|Francis Jackson]] – Sonata for Organ No. 1
*[[Miklós Rózsa]] – Concerto for Cello
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – [[Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 14, Op. 135, for soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion]]
*[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]
**''[[Dr K–Sextett]]'', for flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, percussion (tubular chimes and vibraphone), and piano
**''[[Fresco (Stockhausen)|Fresco]]''. for four orchestral groups
**''[[Hymnen]]'', Third Region, electronic music with orchestra
**''[[Momente]]'' (third and final version)
**''[[Stop (Stockhausen)|Stop]]'' (Paris version, for 19 players)
*[[Leif Thybo]] – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
*[[Eduard Tubin]] – Symphony No. 9, "Sinfonia semplice"
*[[Iannis Xenakis]]
**''[[Synaphaï]]'', for piano and orchestra
**''[[Persephassa (Xenakis)|Persephassa]]'', for 6 percussionists
**''Anaktoria'', for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass
*[[Hans Zender]] – ''Canto II'', for soprano, chorus and orchestra (after [[Ezra Pound]]'s Canto XXXIX)

==Opera==
*[[Gordon Crosse]] – ''The Grace of Todd''
*[[Jakov Gotovac]] – ''[[Petar Svačić (opera)|Petar Svačić]]''
*[[Tom Phillips (artist)|Tom Phillips]] – ''[[Irma (opera)|Irma]]'' (composed; premiere in 1970)
*[[Henri Pousseur]] – ''[[Votre Faust]]'' (Milan: Piccola Scala, 15 January)

==[[Jazz]]==
{{Main|1969 in jazz}}

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production opened at the [[46th Street Theatre]] on March 16, transferred to the [[St. James Theatre]] on December 28, 1970, and transferred to the [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|Majestic Theatre]] on April 27, 1971, for a total run of 1217 performances
* ''[[Ann Veronica]]'' ( Music: [[Cyril Ornadel]], Lyrics: [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]]) London production opened at the [[Cambridge Theatre]] on April 17 and ran for 44 performances
* ''[[Canterbury Tales - Musical|Canterbury Tales]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production ran for 121 performances
* ''[[Coco (musical)|Coco]]'' (Music: [[André Previn]], Lyrics: [[Alan Jay Lerner]], Book: [[Alan Jay Lerner]]) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production opened at the [[Mark Hellinger Theatre]] on December 18 and ran for 329 performances
* ''[[Dear World]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production opened at the [[Mark Hellinger Theatre]] on February 6 and ran for 132 performances
* ''[[La Strada (musical)|La Strada]]'' (Music and Lyrics: [[Lionel Bart]])&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production opened at the [[Lunt-Fontanne Theatre]] on December 14 and ran for one performance
* ''[[Mame (musical)|Mame]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production opened at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Theatre Royal]] on February 20 and ran for 443 performances
* ''[[Promises, Promises (musical)|Promises, Promises]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production opened at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] on October 2 and ran for 560 performances

==[[Musical film]]s==
* ''[[Aradhana (1969 film)|Aradhana]]'', [[Hindi]] film
* ''[[Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?]]'', [[United Kingdom|British]] film
* ''[[El Profesor Hippie]]'', [[Argentine]] musical comedy
* ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'', starring [[Peter O'Toole]] and [[Petula Clark]]
* ''[[Hello, Dolly! (film)|Hello, Dolly!]]'', starring [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Walter Matthau]]
* ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]'', starring [[Maggie Smith]] and [[Dirk Bogarde]]
* ''[[Paint Your Wagon (film)|Paint Your Wagon]]'', starring [[Lee Marvin]] and [[Clint Eastwood]]
* ''[[Przygoda z piosenką]]'' (Adventure with Song) [[Poland|Polish]] musical comedy
* ''[[Sweet Charity (film)|Sweet Charity]]'', starring [[Shirley MacLaine]]
* ''Bremenskiye musykanty ([[The Bremen Town Musicians (1969 film)|Town Musicians of Bremen]])'', [[Soviet]] musical cartoon

==Publications==
* [[Nik Cohn]] – ''Pop – From The Beginning'' (later editions as ''Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom'')

==Births==
*[[January 3]] – [[Bayani Agbayani]], Filipino TV personality
*[[January 4]] – [[Boris Berezovsky (pianist)|Boris Berezovsky]], pianist
*[[January 5]] – [[Marilyn Manson]], industrial rock metal singer-songwriter and visual artist
*[[January 14]] – [[Dave Grohl]], American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, film director and activist ([[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], [[Foo Fighters]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Tiësto]], Dutch DJ
*[[January 25]] – [[Kina (musician)|Kina]], American singer-songwriter 
*[[January 27]] – [[Cornelius (musician)|Cornelius]], Japanese ''shibuya-kei'' musician
*[[February 1]] 
**[[Joshua Redman]], American saxophonist and composer
**[[Patrick Wilson (drummer)|Patrick Wilson]], American drummer ([[Weezer]], [[The Special Goodness]] and [[The Rentals]])
*[[February 2]] – [[Dana International]], Israeli Eurovision-winning pop singer
*[[February 5]] – [[Bobby Brown]], American R&B singer ([[New Edition]])
*[[February 13]] – [[Joyce DiDonato]], American operatic lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano
*[[February 19]] – [[Burton C. Bell]], American musician and vocalist ([[Fear Factory]])
*[[February 21]] 
** [[James Dean Bradfield]], Welsh rock singer-songwriter ([[Manic Street Preachers]])
** [[Bosson]], Swedish singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/wellness/article15338706.ab?teaser=true|title=Från sunk till modellhunk|date=3 September 2012 |work=[[Aftonbladet]] |language=Swedish |accessdate=5 September 2012}}</ref> 
*[[March 1]]
**[[Dafydd Ieuan]], Welsh rock drummer ([[Super Furry Animals]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/superfurryanimals/pages/dafydd_ieuan.shtml| title=Dafydd Ieuan biography|date=9 November 2007|access-date=2 March 2024|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
**Christina Bergmark, Swedish singer-songwriter and keyboardist ([[The Wannadies]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Adam Siegel]], American multi-instrumentalist ([[Excel (band)|Excel]], [[Infectious Grooves]])<ref>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018083704/http://metal-archives.com/more.php?id=705 |date=October 18, 2007 }}</ref>
*[[March 11]] – [[Pete Droge]], American folk rock musician
*[[March 12]] – [[Graham Coxon]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist ([[Blur (band)|Blur]])
*[[March 13]] – [[Susanna Mälkki]], Finnish cellist and orchestra conductor<ref>{{cite journal|last=Crelin|first=Joy|title=Susanna Mälkki|pages=[[iarchive:isbn 9781682172476/page/53/mode/1up|53–57]]|volume=78|issue=5|date=May 2017|journal=[[Current Biography]]|issn=0011-3344}}</ref>
*[[March 14]] – [[Michael Bland]], American drummer ([[New Power Generation]])
*[[March 18]] – [[Andy Cutting]], English folk accordionist
*[[March 25]] – [[Cathy Dennis]], British singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, musician and actress
*[[March 27]] – [[Mariah Carey]], American singer-songwriter
*[[April 8]] – [[Dulce Pontes]], Portuguese singer-songwriter
*[[April 10]] – [[Yoo Young-jin]], South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer
*[[April 11]] – [[Cerys Matthews]], Welsh singer-songwriter, author and broadcaster
*[[April 27]]
**[[Darcey Bussell]], ballerina
**[[Mica Paris]], singer
*[[April 29]] – [[Master P]], rapper, record label owner
*[[May 7]] – Mox Cristadoro, Italian drummer ([[Monumentum]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Buckethead]] (born Brian Caroll), guitarist.
*[[May 14]] – [[Danny Wood]] ([[New Kids on the Block]])
*[[May 15]] – [[Assala Nasri]], musical artist
*[[May 18]] – [[Martika]], American singer-songwriter and actress,
*[[May 24]] – [[Rich Robinson]] ([[The Black Crowes]])
*[[May 29]] – [[Chandler Kinchla]] ([[Blues Traveler]])
*[[May 31]] – Sarah-Jane McGrath, singer-songwriter
*[[June 5]] – [[Brian McKnight]], singer-songwriter
*[[June 7]] – [[Armando Tranquilino]], composer
*[[June 13]] – [[Søren Rasted]], [[Aqua (band)|Aqua]]
*[[June 15]] – [[Ice Cube]], rapper
*[[June 16]] – [[Bénabar]], singer-songwriter
*[[June 25]] 
**[[Hunter Foster]], American actor and singer
**[[Zim Zum]], American guitarist and songwriter ([[The Pop Culture Suicides]])
*[[June 28]] – [[Danielle Brisebois]], American producer, singer-songwriter and former child actress. 
*[[July 2]] – [[Jenni Rivera]], American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
*[[July 5]] – [[RZA]], American  rapper, record producer and author
*[[July 7]]
**[[Nathalie Simard]], Canadian singer  (René Simard)
**[[Cree Summer]], American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress ([[Subject to Change (band)|Subject to Change]])
*[[July 8]]
**[[George Fisher (musician)|George Fisher]], American singer-songwriter ([[Cannibal Corpse]], [[Monstrosity (band)|Monstrosity]] and [[Paths of Possession]])
**[[Sugizo]], Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor ([[Luna Sea]], [[X Japan]], [[Juno Reactor]] and [[Skin (Japanese band)|S.K.I.N.]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Jonas Kaufmann]], operatic tenor
*[[July 24]] – [[Jennifer Lopez]],  American singer, actress, songwriter, performer, dancer, author, philanthropist and producer
*[[August 6]] – [[Elliott Smith]], indie singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
*[[August 12]] – [[Tanita Tikaram]], British pop/folk singer-songwriter
*[[August 17]] 
**[[Uhm Jung-hwa]], South Korean actress and singer
**[[Kelvin Mercer]], American rapper and producer ([[De La Soul]])
**[[Donnie Wahlberg]] ([[New Kids on the Block]])
*[[August 18]] 
**[[Everlast (musician)|Everlast]], singer
**[[Masta Killa]], American rapper ([[La Coka Nostra]])
*[[August 19]] – [[Clay Walker]], country singer
*[[August 29]] – [[Meshell Ndegeocello]], funk singer-songwriter and rapper
*[[September 5]] – [[Dweezil Zappa]], guitarist and son of [[Frank Zappa]]
*[[September 6]] – [[CeCe Peniston]], singer
*[[September 16]]
**[[Marc Anthony]], singer-songwriter
**[[Janno Gibbs]], Filipino singer-songwriter
**[[Justine Frischmann]], English singer ([[Elastica]])
*[[September 17]]
**[[Lynette Diaz]], American born singer-songwriter and radio host
**[[Keith Flint]], English electronic music singer and dancer ([[The Prodigy]]) (d. 2019)
*[[September 19]] – [[Jóhann Jóhannsson]], Icelandic composer (d. 2018)
*[[September 24]]
**<!--September 24-->[[Shawn Crahan]], percussionist/backing vocalist for [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]]
**<!--September 24-->[[DeVante Swing]], singer-songwriter, record producer
*[[October 3]] – [[Gwen Stefani]], American singer-songwriter, fashion designer and actress ([[No Doubt]])
*[[October 7]]
**[[Per Mathisen]], Norwegian bass player and composer
**[[Maria Whittaker]], English model, actress and singer
*[[October 9]] – [[PJ Harvey]], English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet and composer
*[[October 16]] 
**[[Roy Hargrove]], American trumpeter and composer (d. 2018)
**[[Wendy Wilson]], American singer and television personality [[Wilson Phillips]]
*[[October 17]] – [[Wyclef Jean]], Haitian rapper, musician and actor ([[Fugees]])<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.biography.com/people/wyclef-jean-587970|title=Wyclef Jean Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story|publisher= [[Biography.com]] ([[FYI (TV network)|FYI]] / [[A&E Networks]])| access-date= March 21, 2017|archive-date= January 18, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140118152059/http://www.biography.com/people/wyclef-jean-587970|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[October 19]] - [[DJ Sammy]], Spanish DJ 
*[[October 22]] – [[Helmut Lotti]], Belgian singer
*[[October 30]] – [[Snow (musician)|Snow]], reggae musician
*[[November 3]] – [[Robert Miles]], DJ
*[[November 4]] – [[Sean Combs]] (P. Diddy), rapper
*[[November 9]] – [[Scarface (rapper)|Scarface]], rapper<!--article for Scarface says he was born in 1970; any way to verify correct year?-->
*[[November 13]] – [[Josh Mancell]], American drummer and composer ([[The Moon Upstairs]])
*[[December 4]]
**[[Scott St. John]], viola player
**[[Jay-Z]], rapper
*[[December 9]] – [[Jakob Dylan]], American rock singer-songwriter ([[The Wallflowers]]), son of [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Sara Dylan|Sara Lownds]]
*[[December 17]] – [[Michael V.]], Filipino Television Personality
*[[December 19]] – [[Aziza Mustafa Zadeh]], Azerbaijani jazz musician and singer
*[[December 21]] – [[Julie Delpy]],  French-American actress, film director, screenwriter and singer-songwriter
*[[December 24]] – [[Mariko Shiga]], Japanese singer (d. 1989)
*[[December 30]] 
**[[Matt Goldman]], American record producer
**[[Jay Kay]], English singer ([[Jamiroquai]])
**[[David Rawlings]], American guitarist, singer and record producer

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Paul Chambers]], jazz bassist (b. 1935) (tuberculosis)
*[[January 17]] – [[Grażyna Bacewicz]],  Polish composer and violinist (b. 1909)
*[[February 15]] – [[Pee Wee Russell]], jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
*[[February 20]] – [[Ernest Ansermet]], conductor (b. 1883)
*[[February 23]] – [[Constantin Silvestri]], conductor and composer (b. 1913)
*[[March 25]] – [[Billy Cotton]], bandleader (b. 1899)
*[[March 26]] – [[Clara Dow]], operatic soprano (b. 1883)
*[[April 2]] – [[Fortunio Bonanova]], baritone (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite book|author=Everett Grant Jarvis|title=Final Curtain: Deaths of Noted Movie and TV Personalities, 1912-1996|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|year=1995|page=142}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Fanny Anitùa]], operatic contralto (b. 1887)
*[[April 10]] – [[Fernando Ortiz Fernández|Fernando Ortiz]], ethnomusicologist (b. 1881)
*[[April 20]] – [[Benny Benjamin]] ("Papa Zita"), drummer (b. 1925) (stroke)
*[[April 22]] – [[Amparo Iturbi]], Spanish pianist (b. 1898)
*[[April 23]] – [[Krzysztof Komeda]], jazz musician and composer (b. 1931) (haematoma)
*[[April 29]] – [[Julius Katchen]], pianist (b. 1926) (cancer)
*[[May 1]] – [[Ella Logan]], actress and singer (b. 1913)
*[[May 17]] – [[Maria Olszewska]], operatic contralto (b. 1892)
*[[May 22]] – [[Nicola Salerno]], Italian lyricist (b. 1910)
*[[May 9]] – [[Elias Breeskin]], violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1896)
*[[May 23]] – [[Jimmy McHugh]], US composer and pianist (b. 1894)
*[[June 14]]
**[[Roberto Firpo]], Argentine tango pianist (b. 1884)
**[[Wynonie Harris]], R & B singer ("Mister Blues") (b. 1915)
*[[June 17]] – [[Rita Abatzi]], [[rebetiko]] musician (b. 1914)
*[[June 22]] – [[Judy Garland]], singer and actress (b. [[1922 in music|1922]]) (overdose of barbiturates)<ref>{{cite book|title=Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland|first=Gerald|last=Clarke|author-link=Gerald Clarke (author)|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=New York City|year=2001|isbn=978-0-375-50378-8|title-link=Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland|page=422}}</ref>
*[[July 3]] – [[Brian Jones]], guitarist, founder member of [[The Rolling Stones]] (b. 1942) (drowned)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/08/archive-brian-jones-death-1969 |title=From the archive, 8 July 1969: Jones drowned while 'drunk and drugged' |date=8 July 2011 |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 March 2020 |archive-date=17 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117071338/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/08/archive-brian-jones-death-1969|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[July 5]] – [[Wilhelm Backhaus]], pianist (b. 1884)
*[[July 10]] – [[Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips]], church music composer (b. 1884)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=42kbAQAAMAAJ|title=The Oxford Companion to Black British History|author1=David Dabydeen|author2=John Gilmore|author3=Cecily Jones|publisher=Pennsylvania State University (Oxford University Press)|year=2008|isbn=978-0-199-2389-41|page=463}}</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Hina Spani]], operatic soprano (b. 1896)
*[[July 20]] – [[Roy Hamilton]], American singer (b. 1929; stroke)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|publisher=Omnibus|year=1999|isbn=9780711975484|page=167}}</ref>
*[[July 28]] – [[Frank Loesser]], US songwriter (b. 1910)<ref>Krebs, Alvin, "Frank Loesser, Composer, Dead," ''The New York Times'', July 29, 1969, p. 1</ref>
*[[August 6]] – [[Theodor Adorno]], exponent of the "[[New musicology|New Music]]" (b. 1903)
*[[August 11]] – [[Miriam Licette]], operatic soprano (b. 1885)
*[[August 13]] – [[Jacob do Bandolim]], mandolin player and composer (b. 1918)
*[[September 5]] – [[Josh White]], blues musician (b. 1914)
*[[September 14]] – [[Alice Zeppilli]], operatic soprano (b. 1885)
*[[October 3]] – [[Skip James]], blues musician (b. 1902)<ref>{{cite book| first= Tony
| last= Russell| year= 1997| title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray| publisher=Carlton Books
| location= Dubai| page= 123| isbn= 1-85868-255-X}}</ref>
*[[October 4]] – [[Natalino Otto]], Italian singer (b. 1912)
*[[October 8]] – [[Eduardo Ciannelli]], Italian actor and singer (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mayer |first1=Geoff |title=Encyclopedia of American Film Serials |date=2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786477623 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CYSDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Eduardo+Ciannelli%22&pg=PA74 |access-date=3 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[October 22]] – [[Tommy Edwards]], singer (b. 1922)
*[[November 8]] – [[Ricardo Aguirre]], protest singer (b. 1939)
*[[November 13]] – [[Boris Kroyt]], classical violinist and violist, member of the [[Budapest String Quartet]] from 1936 to 1967 (b. 1897)
*[[November 18]] – [[Ted Heath (bandleader)|Ted Heath]], bandleader (b. 1902)
*[[November 23]] – [[Spade Cooley]], swing musician and murderer (b. 1910) (heart attack)
*[[December 1]] – [[Magic Sam]], blues musician (b. 1937) (heart attack)<ref>{{cite book |title=Deep Blues |first=Robert |last=Palmer |author-link=Robert Palmer (American writer) |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |pages=267, 269}}</ref>
*[[December 5]] – [[James "Stump" Johnson]], blues pianist (b. 1902)
*[[December 6]] – [[Walther Aeschbacher]], Swiss conductor and composer (b. 1901)
*[[December 22]] – [[Wilbur Hatch]], pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1902)
*[[December 24]] – [[Mary Barratt Due]], pianist, music teacher (b. 1888)
*''date unknown'' – [[Marcel LaFosse]], trumpeter (b. 1895)
*''probable'' – [[Mississippi Joe Callicott]], blues musician (b. 1900)

==Awards==
===[[Grammy|Grammy Awards]]===
*[[Grammy Awards of 1969]]

===[[Eurovision Song Contest]]===
*[[Eurovision Song Contest 1969]]

===[[Leeds International Piano Competition]]===
*[[Radu Lupu]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Allen |first=David |date=2022-04-20 |title=Radu Lupu, Pianist Who Awed Listeners, Is Dead at 76 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/arts/music/radu-lupu-dead.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Modern/1969.html |title=Pop Culture Madness 1969 Pop Music Chart|date=December 27, 1969 }}
* {{cite web|url=http://2zillionhippie.podomatic.com/entry/2009-02-12T13_53_48-08_00|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404074617/http://2zillionhippie.podomatic.com/entry/2009-02-12T13_53_48-08_00 |archive-date=4 April 2009| title=Hippie|year=1969|series=Podcast}}

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