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My Sharona" by The Knack (singer Doug Fieger pictured) was the number-one song of 1979. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1979. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 22, 1979.
US BB 1 – Apr 1979, Switzerland 1 – May 1979, Australia 1 for 1 weeks May 1980, Canada 2 – Apr 1979, Sweden (alt) 2 – May 1979, Norway 2 – Jun 1979, France 3 – May 1979, Austria 3 – Jun 1979, US BB 4 of 1979, Scrobulate 5 of disco, Germany 6 – May 1979, POP 6 of 1979, UK 11 – May 1979, US CashBox 14 of 1979, Netherlands 14 ...
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February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. February 14 – In Kabul , Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan , Adolph Dubs , who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
Post-disco is a term and genre to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980.
Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art [cf. pop art] or mass art, sometimes contrasted with fine art) [1] [2] and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.