List of number-one singles of 1978 (Canada)

This is a list of the weekly Canadian RPM magazine[n 1] number one Top Singles chart of 1978.[n 2][n 3]
based on the publication's top 100 singles lists.

Canada denotes Canadian Content.

Volume:IssueIssue Date(s)Weeks on TopSongArtist
28:13-1824 December 1977 - 28 January6"How Deep Is Your Love"Bee Gees
28:194 February1"You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)"Rod Stewart
28:2011 February1"Baby Come Back"Player
28:21-2418 February - 11 March4"Stayin' Alive"Bee Gees
28:2518 March1"Sometimes When We Touch"Dan Hill Canada
28:2625 March1"Emotion"Samantha Sang
29:1-51 April - 29 April5"Night Fever"Bee Gees
29:6-76 May - 13 May2"If I Can't Have You"Yvonne Elliman
29:820 May1"The Closer I Get To You"Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
29:9-1127 May - 10 June3"With a Little Luck"Paul McCartney and Wings
29:12-1417 June - 1 July3"Shadow Dancing"Andy Gibb
29:158 July1"It's a Heartache"Bonnie Tyler
29:16-1915 July - 5 August4"Baker Street"Gerry Rafferty
29:20-2112 August - 19 August2"Miss You"The Rolling Stones
29:22-2526 August - 16 September4"Three Times a Lady"Commodores
29:2623 September1"Grease"Frankie Valli
30:1-230 September - 7 October2"Hopelessly Devoted to You"Olivia Newton-John
30:3-414 October - 21 October2"Hot Child in the City"Nick Gilder Canada
30:5-8 §28 October - 18 November4"You Needed Me"Anne Murray Canada
30:9-1025 November - 2 December2"MacArthur Park"Donna Summer
30:11-139 December - 23 December3"You Don't Bring Me Flowers"Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
30:14-15 ¶30 December 1978 6 January 19792"I Just Wanna Stop"Gino Vannelli Canada

See also

References

Notes
  1. The magazine's weekly record charts were digitized by the AV Trust. The collection is archived by Library and Archives Canada here.
    The PDF text search does not work unless you have additional software installed. You must view each entry on the chart for a match.
  2. A collection of all the .pdf files cited is available here.
  3. On 21 March 1966, the chart became the RPM 100, as expanded to the top 100 singles.

§ - RPM did not publish issues for the first two weeks of November 1978.

¶ - 2nd week on #1 assumed as RPM's first issue the following year was published for 13 January 1979.


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