List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1979

Here are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1979.

That year, 10 acts earned their first number one song: Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, Blondie, Peaches & Herb, Anita Ward, The Knack, Robert John, M, Styx, and Rupert Holmes; only Blondie would ever have another number one hit. The Bee Gees and Donna Summer were the only acts to have more than one new song reach number one in 1979.

Chart history

An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.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

• 1979 in music
• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1979
• 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.