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The Bee Gees had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "Night Fever" at 2, "Stayin' Alive" at 4, and "How Deep is Your Love" at 6. Andy Gibb had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Shadow Dancing", the number one hit of the year. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1978. [1]
Johnny Mathis, previously having hit number one before creating the Hot 100, earns his first number one song on the chart. The Bee Gees and younger sibling Andy Gibb were the only acts to have more than one song hit number one, having three songs and two songs, respectively. Barry Gibb wrote or co-wrote 7 of the number one songs of the year.
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1978 which peaked in 1979 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten 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 February 3 12
Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd: 3 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John: 4 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson: 5 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille: 6 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen: 7 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney: 8 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. 9 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel: 10 ...
Her 1980 release "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and 1984 lovelorn rock ballad "We Belong" also make for excellent sing-alongs, but it's hard to beat "Love Is a Battlefield"—just ask Jennifer ...
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.