List of French number-one hits of 1968

This is a list of the French

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Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1968.

Singles Chart

Week	Issue Date	Artist	Single
1	6 January	Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some to have been the French Elvis Presley. He was married for 15 years to one of the most popular French female singers: Sylvie Vartan...	"San Francisco"
2	13 January	Mireille Mathieu Mireille Mathieu Mireille Mathieu is a French chanteuse, and pop singer. Hailed in the French press as the successor to Édith Piaf, she has achieved great commercial success, recording over 1200 songs in nine different languages, with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.-Childhood to early...	"La Dernière Valse "
3	20 January	Mireille Mathieu	"La Dernière Valse "
4	27 January	Mireille Mathieu	"La Dernière Valse "
5	3 February	The Moody Blues The Moody Blues The Moody Blues are an English rock band. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed....	"Nights in White Satin Nights in White Satin "Nights in White Satin" is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward and first featured on the album Days of Future Passed.It is in the key of E minor Aeolian.-Single releases:... "
6	10 February	Georgette Plana	"Riquita"
7	17 February	Georgette Plana	"Riquita"
8	24 February	Georgette Plana	"Riquita"
9	2 March	The Moody Blues	"Nights in White Satin"
10	9 March	The Moody Blues	"Nights in White Satin"
11	16 March	The Moody Blues	"Nights in White Satin"
12	23 March	Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son . He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann...	"Il Est 5 Heures, Paris S'éveille "
13	30 March	Georgette Plana	"Riquita"
14	6 April	Tom Jones Tom Jones (singer) Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...	"Delilah Delilah (1968 song) "Delilah" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Tom Jones in 1968. It was written by Barry Mason, with music by Les Reed.-Success:It reached No 1 in the charts of several countries including Germany and Switzerland. It reached No 2 in the British charts in March 1968 and was the sixth best selling... "
15	13 April	Tom Jones	"Delilah"
16	20 April	Tom Jones	"Delilah"
17	27 April	Tom Jones	"Delilah"
18	4 May	Les Irrésistibles Les Irrésistibles Les Irrésistibles were a boy band during the late 1960s and early 1970s, whose members were Americans living in France. The lineup consisted of lead singer Jim McMains on keyboards and rhythm guitar, his identical twin brother Steve McMains on bass, Tom Arena on lead guitar, and Andy Cornelius...	"My Year Is A Day"
19	11 May	Tom Jones	"Delilah"
20	18 May	Tom Jones	"Delilah"
21	25 May	Les Irrésistibles	"My Year Is A Day"
22	1 June	Tom Jones	"Delilah"
23	8 June	Les Irrésistibles	"My Year Is A Day"
24	15 June	Aphrodite's Child Aphrodite's Child Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive rock band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou , Demis Roussos , Loukas Sideras , and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris . Their band's name was derived from the title of a track from another Mercury act, Dick Campbell, from his Sings Where It's At album...	"Rain and Tears"
25	22 June	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
26	29 June	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
27	6 July	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
28	13 July	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
29	20 July	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
30	27 July	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
31	3 August	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
32	10 August	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
33	17 August	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
34	24 August	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
35	31 August	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
36	7 September	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
37	14 September	Aphrodite's Child	"Rain and Tears"
38	21 September	Mary Hopkin Mary Hopkin Mary Hopkin , credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti, is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were The Days". She was one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label....	"Those Were the Days (song) Those Were the Days (song) "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" , written by Boris Fomin with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism... "
39	28 September	Mary Hopkin	"Those Were the Days"
40	5 October	Mary Hopkin	"Those Were the Days"
41	12 October	Mary Hopkin	"Those Were the Days"
42	19 October	Mary Hopkin	"Those Were the Days"
43	26 October	Peter Holm Peter Holm Peter Holm is a former pop singer and Swedish playboy who was married to actress Joan Collins between 1985-1986...	"Monia"
44	4 November	Peter Holm	"Monia"
45	9 November	The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...	"Hey Jude Hey Jude "Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not... "
46	16 November	The Beatles	"Hey Jude"
47	23 November	The Beatles	"Hey Jude"
48	30 November	The Beatles	"Hey Jude"
49	7 December	Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff was a German singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to impressive bass registers....	"Le Temps Des Fleurs"
50	14 December	Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff was a German singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to impressive bass registers....	"Le Temps Des Fleurs"
51	21 December	Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff was a German singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to impressive bass registers....	"Le Temps Des Fleurs"
52	28 December	Salvatore Adamo Salvatore Adamo Salvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo is a Belgian – Italian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, but...	"Pauvre Verlaine"

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