List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980. The two longest running number-one singles of 1980 are "Call Me" by Blondie and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers with each single obtaining six weeks on top of the chart. Every song that went to number one for 1980 stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 over twenty weeks.

That year, 6 acts hit number one for the first time, such as Queen, Pink Floyd, Lipps Inc., Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Rogers. John Lennon was the fourth artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in December 1980.

The British rock band Queen was the only act to achieve multiple number-one songs during the year with “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust”.

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1980 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No. Issue Date Song Artist(s) Ref.
480 January 5 "Please Don't Go" KC and the Sunshine Band [1]
re January 12 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes [2]
481 January 19 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson [3]
January 26 [4]
February 2 [5]
February 9 [6]
482 February 16 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille [7]
483 February 23 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen [8]
March 1 [9]
March 8 [10]
March 15 [11]
484 March 22 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd [12]
March 29 [13]
April 5 [14]
April 12 [15]
485 April 19 "Call Me"[16] Blondie [17]
April 26 [18]
May 3 [19]
May 10 [20]
May 17 [21]
May 24 [22]
486 May 31 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. [23]
June 7 [24]
June 14 [25]
June 21 [26]
487 June 28 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney [27]
July 5 [28]
July 12 [29]
488 July 19 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel [30]
July 26 [31]
489 August 2 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John [32]
August 9 [33]
August 16 [34]
August 23 [35]
490 August 30 "Sailing" Christopher Cross [36]
491 September 6 "Upside Down" Diana Ross [37]
September 13 [38]
September 20 [39]
September 27 [40]
492 October 4 "Another One Bites the Dust" Queen [41]
October 11 [42]
October 18 [43]
493 October 25 "Woman in Love" Barbra Streisand [44]
November 1 [45]
November 8 [46]
494 November 15 "Lady" Kenny Rogers [47]
November 22 [48]
November 29 [49]
December 6 [50]
December 13 [51]
December 20 [52]
495 December 27 "(Just Like) Starting Over" John Lennon [53]

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Additional 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 Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
  • Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

See also
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