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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.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1979 which peaked in 1980 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten November 10 "Please Don't Go" KC and the Sunshine Band: 1 January 5 11 December 8 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille: 1 February 16 14 December 22 "Ladies' Night" Kool & the Gang: 8 January 12 5
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
The song ended its run at the top after ten weeks, the longest unbroken spell at number one on the chart for more than ten years. [3] Stewart had been a recording artist since the mid-1960s and continued to be active into the 21st century, [4] but his U.S. chart success was confined to a four-year period at the end of the 1970s.
"Bad Girls" was the first number one for Donna Summer (pictured in later life).. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1979 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since ...