List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1979

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1979.

That year, 10 acts earned their first number one song, such as Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, Blondie, Peaches & Herb, Anita Ward, The Knack, Robert John, M, Styx, and Rupert Holmes. The Bee Gees and Donna Summer were the only acts to have more than one song reach number one, with three.

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1979 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No. Issue Date Song Artist(s) Ref.
457 January 6 "Too Much Heaven" Bee Gees [1]
January 13 [2]
re January 20 "Le Freak" Chic [3]
January 27 [4]
February 3 [5]
458 February 10 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart [6]
February 17 [7]
February 24 [8]
March 3 [9]
459 March 10 "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor [10]
March 17 [11]
460 March 24 "Tragedy" Bee Gees [12]
March 31 [13]
re April 7 "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor [14]
461 April 14 "What a Fool Believes" The Doobie Brothers [15]
462 April 21 "Knock on Wood" Amii Stewart [16]
463 April 28 "Heart of Glass" Blondie [17]
464 May 5 "Reunited" Peaches & Herb [18]
May 12 [19]
May 19 [20]
May 26 [21]
465 June 2 "Hot Stuff" Donna Summer [22]
466 June 9 "Love You Inside Out" Bee Gees [23]
re June 16 "Hot Stuff" Donna Summer [24]
June 23 [25]
467 June 30 "Ring My Bell" Anita Ward [26]
July 7 [27]
468 July 14 "Bad Girls" Donna Summer [28]
July 21 [29]
July 28 [30]
August 4 [31]
August 11 [32]
469 August 18 "Good Times" Chic [33]
470 August 25 "My Sharona" The Knack [34]
September 1 [35]
September 8 [36]
September 15 [37]
September 22 [38]
September 29 [39]
471 October 6 "Sad Eyes" Robert John [40]
472 October 13 "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" Michael Jackson [41]
473 October 20 "Rise" Herb Alpert [42]
October 27 [43]
474 November 3 "Pop Muzik" M [44]
475 November 10 "Heartache Tonight" Eagles [45]
476 November 17 "Still" Commodores [46]
477 November 24 "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer [47]
December 1 [48]
478 December 8 "Babe" Styx [49]
December 15 [50]
479 December 22 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes [51]
December 29 [52]

See also

References
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Sources
  • 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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