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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.
Gloria Gaynor scored a #1 hit with "I Will Survive" in 1979. Here are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1979. That year, 10 acts earned their first number one song: Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, Blondie, Peaches & Herb, Anita Ward, The Knack, Robert John, M, Styx, and Rupert Holmes; only Blondie would ever have another number one hit.
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1979; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1979; List of European number-one hits of 1979; List of number-one singles of 1979 (France) List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1979; List of number-one country albums of 1979 (Canada) List of number-one dance singles of 1979 (U.S.) List of ...
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles which peaked in 1979 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 1978; December 2 "My Life" Billy Joel: 3 January 6 10 "Sharing the Night Together" Dr. Hook: 6 January 6 7 December 16 "Too Much Heaven" Bee Gees: 1 January 6 9 December 23 "Y.M.C.A." Village People: 2 ...
Issue date Song Artist January 6 "Le Freak"/ "I Want Your Love"/ "Chic Cheer" Chic: January 13 "Contact" Edwin Starr: January 20 Fly Away (all cuts) : Voyage: January 27 "I Will Survive"/
Song Artist January 6 "Le Freak" † Chic: January 13 January 20 January 27 February 3 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart: February 10 February 17 February 24 March 3 March 10 "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor: March 17 "Tragedy" Bee Gees: March 24 March 31 April 7 "What a Fool Believes" Doobie Brothers: April 14 April 21 "Knock on Wood" Amii ...
The band Poco, pictured performing in 2007, topped the chart with "Crazy Love" in 1979. In 1979, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the easy listening or adult contemporary music (AC) market. The chart was entitled Easy Listening through the issue dated March 31 and Adult Contemporary ...
The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a publication, was a list of songs that shared only the common characteristic of being newly released. Its introduction coincided with a transition from the old ten-inch 78 rpm record format for single "pop" recordings to the seven-inch vinyl 45 rpm format, introduced in 1949, which was ...