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June 22, 1968

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 19, 1968, covering June 22, 1968.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Graduate by Soundtrack

    The Graduate

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  2. 2
    Album cover for Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

    Bookends

    Simon & Garfunkel

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9
  3. 3
    Album cover for Beat Of The Brass by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Beat Of The Brass

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Birds; The Bees & The Monkees by The Monkees

    The Birds; The Bees & The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    7
  5. 5
    Album cover for Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

    Honey

    Bobby Goldsboro

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    10

Notable Births

Darrell Armstrong

1968Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player and coach[†]

Darrell Eugene Armstrong is an American former professional basketball player, who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He is an assistant coach for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, who won the championship in the 2010–11 season.

Miri Yu

1968Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist[†]

Miri Yu is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist. Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea.

Historical Context for June 22, 1968

In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]