1979 Top Ten Music Charts

1979’s Biggest Artists and Songs

A Taste of Honey (1978 Best New Artist Grammy Winner, presented in 1979)
Bee Gees/Various (Grammy for 1978 Album of the Year)
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 Mellencamp, Blondie and Dire Straits

1979’s Retro Top 10 Hits

1. Old Time Rock and Roll – Bob Seger
2. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
3. Crazy Love – Poco
4. Good Girls Don’t – The Knack
5. I Do The Rock – Tim Curry
6. Street Life – Crusaders
7. Instant Replay – Dan Hartman
8. Chase – Giorgio Moroder
9. Cruel To Be Kind – Nick Lowe
10. Lotta Love – Nicolette Larson

1979’s ‘One Hit Wonders’

1. Pop Muzik – M
2. Rainbow Connection – Kermit (Jim Henson)
3. Born To Be Alive – Patrick Hernandez
4. Just Another NIght – Ian Hunter
5. Come To Me – France Joli
6. Makin It – David Naughton
7. Now That We Found Love – Third World
8. Driver’s Seat – Sniff ‘n’ the Tears
9. Hey, St. Peter – Flash In The Pan
10. New York Groove – Ace Frehley

1979’s Disco Top 10 Hit List

1. Y.M.C.A. – Village People
2. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
3. Bad Girls/Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
4. Ring My Bell – Anita Ward
5. Heart of Glass – Blondie
6. Heaven Must Have Sent You – Bonnie Pointer
7. I Was Made For Dancin’ – Leif Garrett
8. Got To Be Real – Cheryl Lynn
9. Disco Nights (Rock Freak) – GQ
10. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy – Rod Stewart

More of 1979’s Disco Top Hits

Contact – Edwin Starr
Keep On Dancin’ – Gary’s Gang
Makin It – David Naughton

1979’s Funk and Dance Top 10 Hit List

1. Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
2. September – Earth Wind and Fire
3. I Got My Mind Made Up (You can Get It Girl) – Instant Funk
4. Livin’ It Up – Bell & James
5. Good Times – Chic
6. Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now – McFadden and Whitehead
7. Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches and Herb
8. Knock on Wood – Amii Stewart
9. Boogie Wonderland – Earth Wind and Fire
10. There But For The Grace of God Go I – Machine

More of 1979’s Dance and Funk Hits

H.A.P.P.Y. Radio – Edwin Starr
Cuba – Gibson Brothers

1979’s Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. My Sharona – The Knack
2. I Want You To Want Me – Cheap Trick
3. Good Times Roll – The Cars
4. Dance The Night Away – Van Halen
5. The Logical Song – Supertramp
6. Renegade – Styx
7. Head Games – Foreigner
8. Every Time I Think Of You – The Babys
9. Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’ – Journey
10. Beautiful Girls – Van Halen

More of 1979’s Top Pop Rock Songs

Good Girls Don’t – The Knack
I Wish I Could Fly Like Superman – The Kinks
1979’s Album Rock Top 10 Hit List
1. Highway To Hell – AC/DC
2. Devil Went Down To Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band
3. Rust Never Sleeps (Hey Hey My My Into The Black) – Neil Young
4. Minute By Minute – The Doobie Brothers
5. 5:15 – The Who
6. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth – Meatloaf
7. Song on the Radio – Al Stewart
8. Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) – Pat Travers Band
9. Lady Writer – Dire Straits
10. Just Another Night – Ian Hunter

More of 1979’s Album Rock

Rock and Roll Fantasy – Bad Company
Long Live Rock – The Who
Dancin Fool – Frank Zappa
Rubber Biscuit – Blues Brothers

1979’s New Wave Top 10 Hit List

1. Pop Muzik – M
2. One Way Or Another – Blondie
3. Life During Wartime – The Talking Heads
4. Roxanne – The Police
5. Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles
6. Take Me To The River – Talking Heads
7. Hey, St. Peter – Flash &The Pan
8. Driver’s Seat – Sniff N The Tears
9. The Man With The Child In His Eyes – Kate Bush
10. Frederick – Patti Smith Group

1979’s Bubblegum Pop Music Top Ten

1. Y.M/.C.A. – The Village People
2. Rainbow Connection – Kermit
3. I Was Made For Dancin’ – Leif Garrett
4. We Are Family – Sister Sledge
5. In The Navy – The Village People
6. Pop Muzik – M
7. Love Is The Answer – England Dan and John Ford Coley
8. Big Shot – Billy Joel
9. Music Box Dancer – Frank Mills
10. Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love – Lobo

PCM’s 1979 Top 10 Hit List

1. YMCA – Village People
2. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
3. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
4. We Are Family – Sister Sledge
5. Old Time Rock and Roll – Bob Seger
6. Hot Stuff/Bad Girls – Donna Summer
7. Good Times – Chic
8. Escape (The Oina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
9. Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now – McFadden and Whitehead
10. September – Earth Wind and Fire