The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1968. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1968. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
| # | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Seekers' Greatest Hits" | The Seekers | 1 | 17 |
| 2. | "A Man and a Woman" | Soundtrack | 1 | 13 |
| 3. | "Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" | The Beatles | 1 | 30 (pkd #1 in 1967 & 68) |
| 4. | "The Sound of Music" | Original Soundtrack Recording | 1 | 76 (pkd #1 in 1965, 66 & 67) |
| 5. | "The Graduate" | Soundtrack / Simon and Garfunkel | 1 | 1 |
| 6. | "Blooming Hits | Paul Mauriat | 1 | 2 |
| 7. | "Vanilla Fudge" | Vanilla Fudge | 2 | |
| 8. | "Camelot | Soundtrack | 3 | |
| 9. | "Trumpet a Go Go" | James Last Band | 3 | |
| 10. | "Introducing the Seekers" | The Seekers | 5 | |
| 11. | "Smash Hits" | Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1 | 1 |
| 12. | "Fiddler on the Roof" | Original London Cast | 4 | |
| 13. | "Disraeli Gears" | Cream | 1 | 2 |
| 14. | "John Wesley Harding" | Bob Dylan | 1 | 1 |
| 15. | "Their Satanic Majesties Request" | Rolling Stones | 1 | 3 |
| 16. | "The Seekers Sing Their Big Hits" | The Seekers | 3 | |
| 17. | "Realization" | Johnny Rivers | 7 | |
| 18. | "Wheels of Fire" | Cream | 1 | 2 |
| 19. | "The Seekers Seen in Green" | The Seekers | 2 | |
| 20. | "Jim Nabors By Request" | Jim Nabors | 7 | |
| 21. | "A Man Without Love" | Engelbert Humperdinck | 2 | |
| 22. | "Our Kinda Country" | Various Artists | 7 | |
| 23. | "Are You Experienced" | Jimi Hendrix Experience | 2 | |
| 24. | "Going Places" | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass | 1 | 17 (pkd #1 in 1867) |
| 25. | "Diana Ross and the Supremes Live at the Talk of the Town" | Diana Ross and the Supremes | 7 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.
source: David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1940-1969"
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