A breakdown of my top singles from 1979
Title
|
Artist
|
Pop
|
AC
|
R&B
|
Disco
|
|
79
|
"Lady"
|
Little River Band
|
10
|
7
| ||
78
|
"Highway to Hell"
|
AC/DC
|
47
| |||
77
|
"Dance the Night Away"
|
Van Halen
|
15
| |||
76
|
"Hot Stuff"
|
Donna Summer
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
|
75
|
"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
|
Rupert Holmes
|
1
|
8
| ||
74
|
"Let's Go"
|
The Cars
|
14
| |||
73
|
"Heaven Knows"
|
Donna Summer with Brooklyn Dreams
|
4
|
17
|
10
| |
72
|
"Suspicions"
|
Eddie Rabbitt
|
13
|
9
| ||
71
|
"In the Stone"
|
Earth, Wind & Fire
|
58
|
23
|
Title
|
Artist
|
Pop
|
AC
|
R&B
|
Disco
|
|
70
|
"I Will Survive"
|
Gloria Gaynor
|
1
|
9
|
4
|
1
|
69
|
"(not just) Knee Deep"
|
Funkadelic
|
77
|
1
|
43
|
|
68
|
"Driver's Seat"
|
Sniff 'n' The Tears
| 15 | |||
67
|
"Sad Eyes"
|
Robert John
|
1
|
10
| ||
66
|
"Still"
|
The Commodores
|
1
|
6
|
1
| |
65
|
"You Can't Change That"
| Raydio |
9
|
25
|
3
| |
64
|
"Ships"
|
Barry Manilow
|
9
|
4
| ||
63
|
"The Gambler"
|
Kenny Rogers
|
16
|
3
| ||
62
|
"One Way or Another"
|
Blondie
|
24
|
All chart positions are peak positions from Billboard charts. These are my personal top 79 singles of those that peaked on the Billboard charts in 1979. The list is solely my opinion. Using Joel Whitburn's book, Pop Annual 1955-1999, I started with the 475 singles that peaked on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart in 1979. An initial pass through that list narrowed it down to 105 tunes, then listening, ranking, and editing began. The top 79 are presented here, in order.
Love the crossover hit that “I Will Survive” was going Top 10 across the board. Curious to see if there are any more of those.
ReplyDeleteGuess I have to turn in my EW&F fan card as #71 sent me scurrying to Spotify to have a listen as I drew a blank.
Excited to see how the rest of this list of 79 unfolds while also hoping for a glimpse at those 26 songs that missed the cut.
Gonna be a good week.