• 13. januar – Johnny Cash holder sin berømte koncert i Folsom State Prison i Californien.^[1]
• 6. april – Massiels sang La La La vinder Eurovision Song Contest i London for Spanien ^[2].
• 7. juli – The Yardbirds giver den sidste optrædning inden bandet bliver opløst.^[3]
• 1. september - Dansktoppen gik i luften for første gange, med Jørn Hjorting som programvært.^[4]
• 7. september – Under navnet The New Yardbirds optræder Led Zeppelin for første gang offentligt i Gladsaxe Teen Club.^[3]
• 14. september – Den amerikanske hippie-musical "Hair" havde premiere på Gladsaxe Teater.
• 14. september - Sangeren Roy Orbison, mister sine sønner den 10-årige Roy DeWayne Orbison og 6-årige Anthony King Orbison, dør i en brand i deres hjem i Hendersonville, Tennessee. Orbison yngste søn overlever.^[5]
• 15. oktober – The New Yardbirds skifter navn til Led Zeppelin i forbindelse med en koncert i Surrey University, England.^[3]

• Amon Düül II
• Black Sabbath (som Earth)
• Can
• Deep Purple
• Fitzwilliam Quartet
• Free
• Henry Cow
• Jacula
• Led Zeppelin (som The New Yardbirds)
• Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge (som Brooklyn Bridge)
• Nazareth
• Rush
• Yes
• Colosseum
• King Crimson
• Crosby, Stills & Nash

• Buffalo Springfield
• Cream
• Freddie and the Dreamers
• The Righteous Brothers
• The Seekers
• The Shangri-Las
• The Yardbirds (gendannet i 1992)
• The Zombies (gendannet i 1991)
• Los Speakers

Venligst sortere solister på efternavne, musikgrupper på det første bogstav (undtaget det engelske "The" og "A")

• Joan Baez – Any Day Now
• The Band – Music from Big Pink
• The Beach Boys – Friends
• The Beach Boys – Stack-o-Tracks
• The Beatles – The Beatles ("The White Album")
• Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
• Blue Cheer – Outsideinside
• Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
• The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
• Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
• Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
• Canned Heat – Boogie With Canned Heat
• John Coltrane – Cosmic Music
• John Coltrane – Om
• Country Joe and the Fish – Together
• Cream – Wheels of Fire
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – If No-One Sang
• Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple
• Dion – Dion
• Donovan – Donovan in Concert
• The Doors – Waiting for the Sun
• The Dubliners – At It Again
• The Dubliners – Drinkin' and Courtin'
• The Everly Brothers – Roots
• Aretha Franklin – Aretha Now
• Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul
• The Fugs – Tenderness Junction
• The Fugs – It Crawled into My Hand, Honest

• Herbie Hancock – Speak Like a Child
• Lee Hazlewood – Love and Other Crimes
• Keith Jarrett – Life Between the Exit Signs
• Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
• Jethro Tull – This Was
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
• Jan Johansson & Radiojazzgruppen – Den korta fristen
• Jan Johansson – Jazz på ungerska
• The Kinks – Live at Kelvin Hall
• The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
• Lennart Kjellgren & Gunnel Nilsson – Glada visor från Bialitt
• The Lovin' Spoonful – Everything Playing
• Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull
• The Monkees – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees
• The Monkees – Head
• Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
• Tom Paxton – Morning Again
• Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets
• The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

• The Savage Rose - The Savage Rose
• The Savage Rose - In the Plain
• Simon & Garfunkel – The Graduate (soundtrack)
• Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
• Nina Simone – 'Nuff Said!
• Sly and the Family Stone – Dance to the Music
• Sly and the Family Stone – Life
• The Small Faces – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
• The Small Faces – There Are But Four Small Faces
• Joe South – Introspect
• Spirit – The Family That Plays Together
• Spooky Tooth – It's All About
• Status Quo – Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo
• Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf
• Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf the Second
• James Taylor – James Taylor
• Ten Years After – Undead
• Traffic – Heaven Is In Your Mind
• Traffic – Traffic
• The Turtles – The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands
• The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
• The Who – Magic Bus: The Who on Tour
• Young Flowers – Blomsterpistolen
• The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
• Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
• Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – We're Only in It for the Money

• Oscar for bedste musik
  • Originalt – John Barry for The Lion in Winter
  • Musical eller adapteret – John Green for Oliver!
• Oscar for bedste sang
  • Windmills of Your Mind (fra Thomas Crown & Co) – Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman
• Grammy Awards i 1968

• Eurovision Song Contest 1968

• Wikimedia Commons har flere filer relateret til Musik i 1968