List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1978

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1978.

That year, 11 acts first hit number one, such as Player, Yvonne Elliman, Deniece Williams, John Travolta, The Commodores, A Taste of Honey, Exile, Nick Gilder, Anne Murray, Donna Summer, and Chic. Johnny Mathis, previously having hit number one before creating the Hot 100, earns his first number one song on the chart. The Bee Gees and younger sibling Andy Gibb were the only acts to have more than one song hit number one, having three songs and two songs, respectively. Barry Gibb wrote or co-wrote 7 of the number one songs of the year.

Chart history

An asterisk (*) by date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

Number-one artists

See also

• 1978 in music
• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1978
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s

References

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition ()
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition ()
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies ()
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.