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The band Poco, pictured performing in 2007, topped the chart with "Crazy Love" in 1979. In 1979, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the easy listening or adult contemporary music (AC) market. The chart was entitled Easy Listening through the issue dated March 31 and Adult Contemporary ...
This chart was first printed in Billboard magazine in 1961 and lists the most popular songs as determined by airplay on American adult contemporary music radio stations. Over the years, the chart has gone by a variety of names, including Easy Listening, Middle-Road Singles, Pop-Standard Singles, Adult Contemporary and Hot Adult Contemporary ...
The chart, entitled Adult Oriented Playlist, has undergone numerous name changes, becoming Contemporary Adult in 1981 and became Adult Contemporary in 1984 until the magazine's final publication in November 2000. In 1979, thirty-six singles reached number one in the chart, which contains 50 positions.
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 Adult Contemporary number ones of 1979; List of Canadian number-one albums of 1979; 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
With the 1977 list having just been promoted, and the 1978 list having multiple supports, I now present the 1979 list. In this particular year, the top of the chart was dominated by a Canadian singer who spent fully a quarter of the year in the top spot.
The chart, which in 1977 was entitled Easy Listening, has undergone various name changes and has been published under the title Adult Contemporary since 1996. [1] In 1977, 20 songs topped the chart based on playlists submitted by radio stations. [1] The three longest-running chart-toppers of the year were all taken from film soundtracks.
In April 1979, the Easy Listening chart officially became known as Adult Contemporary, and those two words have remained consistent in the name of the chart ever since. In 1996, Billboard created a new chart called Adult Top 40, which reflects radio station programming that exists somewhere between "adult contemporary" music and "pop" music ...