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List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1979
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These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1979.
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The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1979 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
Issue Date
Song
Artist(s)
Reference
January 6 "Too Much Heaven" Bee Gees [1]
January 13 [2]
January 20 "Le Freak" Chic [3]
January 27 [4]
February 3 [5]
February 10 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart [6]
February 17 [7]
February 24 [8]
March 3 [9]
March 10 "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor [10]
March 17 [11]
March 24 "Tragedy" Bee Gees [12]
March 31 [13]
April 7 "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor [14]
April 14 "What a Fool Believes" The Doobie Brothers [15]
April 21 "Knock on Wood" Amii Stewart [16]
April 28 "Heart of Glass" Blondie [17]
May 5 "Reunited" Peaches & Herb [18]
May 12 [19]
May 19 [20]
May 26 [21]
June 2 "Hot Stuff" Donna Summer [22]
June 9 "Love You Inside Out" Bee Gees [23]
June 16 "Hot Stuff" Donna Summer [24]
June 23 [25]
June 30 "Ring My Bell" Anita Ward [26]
July 7 [27]
July 14 "Bad Girls" Donna Summer [28]
July 21 [29]
July 28 [30]
August 4 [31]
August 11 [32]
August 18 "Good Times" Chic [33]
August 25 "My Sharona" The Knack [34]
September 1 [35]
September 8 [36]
September 15 [37]
September 22 [38]
September 29 [39]
October 6 "Sad Eyes" Robert John [40]
October 13 "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" Michael Jackson [41]
October 20 "Rise" Herb Alpert [42]
October 27 [43]
November 3 "Pop Muzik" M [44]
November 10 "Heartache Tonight" Eagles [45]
November 17 "Still" Commodores [46]
November 24 "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer [47]
December 1 [48]
December 8 "Babe" Styx [49]
December 15 [50]
December 22 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes [51]
December 29 [52]
See also[edit]
1979 in music
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1979
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Songs - Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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Sources[edit]
Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
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