List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1967

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Ed Ames had three number ones in 1967.

In 1967, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the easy listening market. The listing has undergone various name changes and since 1996 has been published under the title Adult Contemporary.[1] In 1967, 18 songs topped the chart, which at the time was entitled Easy Listening, based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.[1]

On the first chart of 1967, Frank Sinatra was at number one with "That's Life", which had been in the top spot since the previous week. Sinatra, who was experiencing a career resurgence in his 50s,[2] had the highest total number of weeks at number one by an artist in 1967, spending seven weeks in the top spot with the solo singles "That's Life" and "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" and a further nine weeks at number one with "Somethin' Stupid", a duet with his daughter Nancy. The nine weeks which "Somethin' Stupid" spent at the top was the longest unbroken run of the year at number one. The song was also a crossover success, topping Billboard's pop music chart, the Hot 100, for four weeks. In addition to Frank Sinatra, Ed Ames also had three Easy Listening number ones in 1967, reaching the top spot with "My Cup Runneth Over", "Time, Time" and "When the Snow Is on the Roses". Nancy Sinatra, Al Martino and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were the only other acts with multiple chart-toppers during the year.

In contrast to the song by the Sinatras which was both an easy listening and pop number one, both "It's Such a Pretty World Today" by Andy Russell and "Cold" by John Gary were Easy Listening chart-toppers but did not achieve sufficient crossover success to chart on the Hot 100 at all.[3][4] It would be more than 30 years before another song would top the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary listing but fail to register on the Hot 100 despite being eligible to do so.[3] Russell's chart-topper came just two months after a recording of the same song by Wynn Stewart had reached number one on the Hot Country Singles chart.[5] "Cold" was the final number one of the year and would prove to be Gary's only Easy Listening chart-topper; after it exited the Easy Listening chart he never achieved another entry on either that listing or the Hot 100.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b Whitburn 2007, p. vi.
  2. ^ Breihan, Tom (September 11, 2018). "The Number Ones: Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night"". Stereogum. Archived from the original on December 11, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Trust, Gary (August 5, 2011). "Ask Billboard: Chicago's AC Six-Cess". Billboard. Archived from the original on April 5, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  4. ^ Whitburn 2005, pp. 272, 612.
  5. ^ Whitburn 1996, p. 310.
  6. ^ Whitburn 2002, p. 100.
  7. ^ Whitburn 2005, p. 272.

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