page_title: List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1968
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1968 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Trade ad for Sergio Mendes &amp; Brasil '66's single "Mas Que Nada". To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
context_page_description: Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music genre. In 1968, 13 songs topped the chart, then published under the title Easy Listening, based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.
  On the first chart of the year, the number one spot was held by Harpers Bizarre with their version of Glenn Miller's 1941 song "Chattanooga Choo Choo". It would prove to be the only Billboard chart-topper of the sunshine pop band's career, and after 1968 they would not achieve any further hits. Other acts to top the chart for the first time in 1968 included Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes, who reached number one for the first time with a version of "The Fool on the Hill", originally recorded by The Beatles. After a lengthy period without further major success, Mendes would achieve a second number one 15 years after the first when he made a comeback in 1983.
caption: Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 topped the chart with their version of "The Fool on the Hill", originally recorded by The Beatles.
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