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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.
Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-194-2. Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8) Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
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.
December 1, 1978 to February 28, 1979 [ edit ] This is the coldest winter over the contiguous US since at least 1895 with a mean temperature of 26.62 °F or −2.99 °C as against an 1895/1896 to 1973/1974 seasonal mean of 31.94 °F or −0.03 °C. [ 7 ]
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.
English rock singer Elton John played eight concerts in the Soviet Union between 21 and 28 May 1979. [1] The two-city tour was a significant event amid Cold War tensions between the USSR and the West, [2] and a sign of the Communist authorities' emerging tolerance towards Western popular culture. [3]
This is a summary of 1979 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. 1979 saw the beginning of several trends in British music. Electropop reached number one in both the singles and albums charts in the form of Gary Numan and Tubeway Army , and synthesiser bands began to gather momentum which would come to ...