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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 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 ...
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 number-one hits of 1979 (Germany) List of number-one ...
September 1979 (#36 US: first rap song to hit Billboard's Top 40) "Shivers" The Boys Next Door: May 1979: n/a "The Staircase (Mystery)" Siouxsie and the Banshees: March 1979: 24 (UK Singles Chart) "They Don't Know" Kirsty MacColl: June 1979: n/a "Transmission" Joy Division: October 1979: n/a "Typical Girls" / "I Heard It Through the Grapevine ...
Breaking records as the first song by an all-Native American and Mexican-American band to enter the Billboard Top 10, the song and band ... The song was a success, winning the 1979 Grammy for ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
(Top) 1 See also. 2 References. ... These are the Billboard magazine Hot Dance Club Play number one hits of 1979. Issue date Song Artist January 6 ... 1975—1979 ...