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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]
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
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. The Bee Gees scored three #1 singles in 1978 with "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever".
The Bee Gees achieved four top 10 singles this year, three of which were featured on the soundtrack of the film Saturday Night Fever. The most successful of these was "Night Fever", which reached number-one in April. Kate Bush made her UK top 10 debut in 1978 with her first single release, "Wuthering Heights", which spent four weeks at number ...
3. Bing Crosby & David Bowie, "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" This version of the classic Christmas song was written just for David Bowie and Bing Crosby's 1977 performance, and remains the ...
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1978; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1978; List of European number-one hits of 1978; List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1978; List of number-one country albums of 1978 (Canada) List of number-one dance singles of 1978 (U.S.) List of number-one hits of 1978 (Germany)
The album-only Christmas Hits section was retitled Top Christmas Albums in 1990. Barry Manilow's Because It's Christmas was the No. 1 album for the first 2 weeks under the survey's new name. [213] Billboard began running the chart 5 consecutive weeks each holiday season in 1991, but all weeks are still not available in print. [214]
Kenny Rogers had three number ones in 1978. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1978, 31 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by ...