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1979's
Hit Music & Song Charts
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1979's
Biggest Artists, Albums and Songs
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A Taste of Honey (1978 Best New Artist Grammy Winner,
presented in 1979) |
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Bee Gees/Various (Grammy for 1978 Album of the Year) |
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Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel (Grammy for Record
of the Year) |
New
Artists in the Pop Charts Included:
Kate Bush, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes,
AC/DC, Kim Carnes, The Police, The Blues Brothers, Nick
Lowe, Toto, John Cougar Melloncamp, Blondie and Dire
Straites |
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1979's
Retro Pop Top 10 Hit List
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Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger |
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Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes |
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Crazy Love - Poco |
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Good Girls Don't - The Knack |
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I Do The Rock - Tim Curry |
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Street Life - Crusaders |
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Instant Replay - Dan Hartman |
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Chase - Giorgio Moroder |
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Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe |
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Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson |
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1979's
One Hit Wonders &
'Money Song' Top 10 Hit List
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Pop Muzik - M |
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Rainbow Connection - Kermit (Jim Henson) |
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Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez |
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Just Another NIght - Ian Hunter |
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Come To Me - France Joli |
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Makin It - David Naughton |
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Now That We Found Love - Third World |
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Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' the Tears |
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Hey, St. Peter - Flash In The Pan |
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New York Groove - Ace Frehley |
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1979's
Disco Top 10 Hit List
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Y.M.C.A. - Village People |
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I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor |
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Bad Girls/Hot Stuff - Donna Summer |
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Ring My Bell - Anita Ward |
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Heart of Glass - Blondie |
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Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer |
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I Was Made For Dancin' - Leif Garrett |
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Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn |
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Disco Nights (Rock Freak) - GQ |
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Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart |
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of 1979's Disco Top Hits
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Contact - Edwin Starr |
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Keep On Dancin' - Gary's Gang |
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Makin It - David Naughton |
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1979's
Funk and Dance Top 10 Hit List
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Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson |
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September - Earth Wind and Fire |
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I Got My Mind Made Up (You can Get It Girl) - Instant
Funk |
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Livin' It Up - Bell & James |
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Good Times - Chic |
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Ain't No Stoppin Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead |
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Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches and
Herb |
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Knock on Wood - Amii Stewart |
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Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire |
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There But For The Grace of God Go I - Machine |
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of 1979's Dance and Funk Hits
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H.A.P.P.Y. Radio - Edwin Starr |
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Cuba - Gibson Brothers |
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1979's
Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List
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My Sharona - The Knack |
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I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick |
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Good Times Roll - The Cars |
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Dance The Night Away - Van Halen |
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The Logical Song - Supertramp |
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Renegade - Styx |
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Head Games - Foreigner |
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Every Time I Think Of You - The Babys |
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Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey |
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Beautiful Girls - Van Halen |
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of 1979's Top Pop Rock Songs
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Good Girls Don't - The Knack |
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I Wish I Could Fly Like Superman - The Kinks |
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1979's
Album Rock Top 10 Hit List
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Highway To Hell - AC/DC |
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Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band |
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Rust Never Sleeps (Hey Hey My My Into The Black) -
Neil Young |
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Minute By Minute - The Doobie Brothers |
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5:15 - The Who |
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You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
- Meatloaf |
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Song on the Radio - Al Stewart |
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Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) - Pat Travers Band |
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Lady Writer - Dire Straites |
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Just Another Night - Ian Hunter |
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of 1979's Album Rock
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Rock and Roll Fantasy - Bad Company |
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Long Live Rock - The Who |
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Dancin Fool - Frank Zappa |
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Rubber Buscuit - Blues Brothers |
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1979's
New Wave Top 10 Hit List
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Pop Muzik - M |
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One Way Or Another - Blondie |
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Life During Wartime - The Talking Heads |
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Roxanne - The Police |
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Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles |
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Take Me To The River - Talking Heads |
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Hey, St. Peter - Flash &The Pan |
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Driver's Seat - Sniff N The Tears |
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The Man With The Child In His Eyes -
Kate Bush |
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Frederick - Patti Smith Group |
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1979's
Bubblegum Pop Music Top Ten
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Y.M/.C.A. - The Village People |
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Rainbow Connection - Kermit |
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I Was Made For Dancin' - Leif Garrett |
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We Are Family - Sister Sledge |
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In The Navy - The Village People |
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Pop Muzik - M |
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Love Is The Answer - England Dan and John
Ford Coley |
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Big Shot - Billy Joel |
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Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills |
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Where Were You When I Was Falling In
Love - Lobo |
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PCM's
1979 Top 10 Hit List
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YMCA - Village People |
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I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor |
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Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson |
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We Are Family - Sister Sledge |
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Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger |
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Hot Stuff/Bad Girls - Donna Summer |
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Good Times - Chic |
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Escape (The Oina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes |
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Ain't No Stoppin Us Now - McFadden and
Whitehead |
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September - Earth Wind and Fire |
Check Out the Full
PCM 1979
Annual Best
Music
Hits Here
!
One Hit Wonders include artists with only one
song in Billboard's Top 40 Pop Charts,
songs of note and well-known hits that did not even
make the Billboard Pop Charts.
Hot Pop Songs/PCM Charts are based on DJ requests and online suggestions.
Some songs are listed in multiple years because some
charts list the
'release date' as the official date, while others
list the chart 'peak date.'
Compromising that data, we try to list songs for the
year they saw the most chart action.
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