Charting the Charts: Peaches & Herb - We've Got Love (1979)

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Here's a look at how the 1979 single "We've Got Love" fared on the single charts in various publications:

1979
Date	Billboard Hot 100	Billboard R&B (100)	Billboard AC (50)	Cashbox Top 100	Cashbox R&B 100
June 30	83			86
July 7	72			72
July 14	65	71		65	90
July 21	58	61		58	78
July 28	51	51		53	68
Aug 4	46	43	44	50	57
Aug 11	44	35	45	47	47
Aug 18	97	27	43	83	43
Aug 25		27	44	97	42
Sept 1		25			42
Sept 8		25			47
Sept 15		39			83
Sept 22		49			93
Sept 29		96

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Record World, July 7, 1979, p. 1

CashBox, June 30, 1979, p. 15

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Counting down my Top 79 of '79: Singles #43 - 27

A breakdown of my top singles from 1979

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	Title	Artist	Pop	AC	R&B	Disco
43	"Send One Your Love"	Stevie Wonder	4	1	5
42	"Street Life"	Crusaders	36		17	75
41	"Video Killed the Radio Star"	Buggles	40
40	"Shake Your Groove Thing"	Peaches & Herb	5		4	2
39	"Beautiful Girls"	Van Halen	84
38	"Big Shot"	Billy Joel	14
37	"Makin' It"	David Naughton	5	48		11
36	"I Want You Tonight"	Pablo Cruise	19
35	"Good Times Roll"	The Cars	41

	Title	Artist	Pop	AC	R&B	Disco
34	"Getting Closer"	Wings	20
33	"No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"	Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand	1	7	20	1
32	"Hold the Line"	Toto	5
31	"Dim All the Lights"	Donna Summer	2	44	13	54
30	"Goodbye Stranger"	Supertramp	15	32
29	"Goodnight Tonight"	Wings	5	30
28	"Chuck E.'s in Love"	Rickie Lee Jones	4	20
27	"Love is the Answer"	England Dan & John Ford Coley	10	1

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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.

Counting down my Top 79 of '79: Singles #61 - 44

A breakdown of my top singles from 1979

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	Title	Artist	Pop	AC	R&B	Disco
61	"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"	Charlie Daniels Band	3	30
60	"I Want Your Love"	Chic	7	9	5	1
59	"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"	McFadden & Whitehead	13		1	10
58	"Pop Muzik"	M	1			4
57	"Somewhere in the Night"	Barry Manilow	9	4
56	"Don't Bring Me Down"	Electric Light Orchestra	4
55	"Bad Girls"	Donna Summer	1		1	1
54	"Every Time I Think of You"	The Babys	13	36
53	"Spooky"	Atlanta Rhythm Section	17	23

	Title	Artist	Pop	AC	R&B	Disco
52	"Reunited"	Peaches & Herb	1	4	1
51	"Take the Long Way Home"	Supertramp	10	28
50	"Lead Me On"	Maxine Nightingale	5	1	37
49	"Roxanne"	The Police	32
48	"Chase"	Giorgio Moroder	33	42		31
47	"He's the Greatest Dancer"	Sister Sledge	9		1	1
46	"Children of the Sun"	Billy Thorpe	41
45	"Shattered"	The Rolling Stones	31
44	"Up on the Roof"	James Taylor	28	7

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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.

Top Albums of March 1979

Let's take a look at what was topping the various album charts on March 17, 1979.

	Billboard	CashBox	Record World	Rolling Stone*
1	Spirits Having Flown Bee Gees	Spirits Having Flown Bee Gees	Spirits Having Flown Bee Gees	Briefcase Full of Blues The Blues Brothers
2	Blondes Have More Fun Rod Stewart	Minute by Minute The Doobie Brothers	Blondes Have More Fun Rod Stewart	Blondes Have More Fun Rod Stweart
3	Minute by Minute The Doobie Brothers	Blondes Have More Fun Rod Stewart	Briefcase Full of Blues The Blues Brothers	Dire Straits Dire Straits
4	Dire Straits Dire Straits	Dire Straits Dire Straits	Minute by Minute The Doobie Brothers	Spirits Having Flown Bee Gees
5	Cruisin' The Village People	52nd Street Billy Joel	Dire Straits Dire Straits	Minute by Minute The Doobie Brothers
6	Love Tracks Gloria Gaynor	Briefcase Full of Blues The Blues Brothers	52nd Street Billy Joel	52nd Street Billy Joel
7	Briefcase Full of Blues The Blues Brothers	Cruisin' The Village People	Totally Hot Olivia Newton-John	Armed Forces Elvis Costello
8	Totally Hot Olivia Newton-John	Love Tracks Gloria Gaynor	Cruisin' The Village People	Best of, Vol. 1 Earth, Wind & Fire
9	52nd Street Billy Joel	Totally Hot Olivia Newton-John	Love Tracks Gloria Gaynor	Toto Toto
10	Armed Forces Elvis Costello	Armed Forces Elvis Costello	2 Hot! Peaches & Herb	Totally Hot Olivia Newton-John

*March 22 issue

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. Spirits Having Flown (37 pts)
2. Blondes Have More Fun (35 pts)
3. Minute by Minute (30 pts)
4. Dire Straits (28 pts)
5. Briefcase Full of Blues (27 pts)
6. 52nd Street (18 pts)
7. Cruisin' (13 pts)
8. (tie) Love Tracks, Totally Hot (10 pts)
10. Armed Forces (6 pts)
11. Best of Earth Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 (3 pts)
12. Toto (2 pts)
13. 2 Hot! (1 pt)

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