List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1969

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1969.

That year, 8 acts hit number one for the first time, such as Sly & the Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, Billy Preston, Henry Mancini, Zager and Evans, The Archies, Steam, and Peter, Paul and Mary. The Beatles and The 5th Dimension were the only acts to have more than one song hit number one, with each having two.

Chart history

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1969 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

No.	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Reference
210	January 4	"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"	Marvin Gaye	[1]
	January 11			[2]
	January 18			[3]
	January 25			[4]
211	February 1	"Crimson and Clover"	Tommy James and the Shondells	[5]
	February 8			[6]
212	February 15	"Everyday People"	Sly & the Family Stone	[7]
	February 22			[8]
	March 1			[9]
	March 8			[10]
213	March 15	"Dizzy"	Tommy Roe	[11]
	March 22			[12]
	March 29			[13]
	April 5			[14]
214	April 12	"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"	The 5th Dimension	[15]
	April 19			[16]
	April 26			[17]
	May 3			[18]
	May 10			[19]
	May 17			[20]
215	May 24	"Get Back"	The Beatles with Billy Preston	[21]
	May 31			[22]
	June 7			[23]
	June 14			[24]
	June 21			[25]
216	June 28	"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet"	Henry Mancini	[26]
	July 5			[27]
217	July 12	"In the Year 2525"	Zager and Evans	[28]
	July 19			[29]
	July 26			[30]
	August 2			[31]
	August 9			[32]
	August 16			[33]
218	August 23	"Honky Tonk Women"	The Rolling Stones	[34]
	August 30			[35]
	September 6			[36]
	September 13			[37]
219	September 20	"Sugar, Sugar"	The Archies	[38]
	September 27			[39]
	October 4			[40]
	October 11			[41]
220	October 18	"I Can't Get Next to You"	The Temptations	[42]
	October 25			[43]
221	November 1	"Suspicious Minds"	Elvis Presley	[44]
222	November 8	"Wedding Bell Blues"	The 5th Dimension	[45]
	November 15			[46]
	November 22			[47]
223	November 29	"Come Together" / "Something"	The Beatles	[48]
224	December 6	"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"	Steam	[49]
	December 13			[50]
225	December 20	"Leaving on a Jet Plane"	Peter, Paul and Mary	[51]
226	December 27	"Someday We'll Be Together"	Diana Ross & the Supremes	[52]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	The 5th Dimension	9
2	Zager and Evans	6
	The Beatles
4	Billy Preston	5
5	Marvin Gaye	4
	Sly & the Family Stone
	Tommy Roe
	The Rolling Stones
	The Archies
9	Tommy James and the Shondells	2
	Henry Mancini
	The Temptations
	Steam
13	Elvis Presley	1
	Peter, Paul and Mary
	Diana Ross & the Supremes

See also

• 1969 in music
• Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1969
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1969
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties (ISBN 0-89820-074-1)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.