No. |
Song |
Artist |
   
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| 2 | Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough | Michael Jackson | |
| 2 | Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 | Pink Floyd | |
| 3 | Rapper's Delight | The Sugarhill Gang | |
| 4 | Highway To Hell | AC/DC | |
| 5 | London Calling | The Clash | |
| 6 | Good Times | Chic | |
| 7 | Rock With You | Michael Jackson | |
| 8 | Comfortably Numb | Pink Floyd | |
| 9 | Hot Stuff | Donna Summer | |
| 10 | Boys Don't Cry | The Cure | |
| 11 | Funkytown | Lipps, Inc. | |
| 12 | Message in a Bottle | The Police | |
| 13 | We Are Family | Sister Sledge | |
| 14 | My Sharona | The Knack | |
| 15 | Brass in Pocket | The Pretenders | |
| 16 | Boogie Wonderland | Earth, Wind & Fire with the Emotions | |
| 17 | Video Killed the Radio Star | Buggles | |
| 18 | I Was Made for Lovin' You | KISS | |
| 19 | Cars | Gary Numan | |
| 20 | The Logical Song | Supertramp | |
| 21 | Train In Vain | The Clash | |
| 22 | Refugee | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | |
| 23 | Cruisin' | Smokey Robinson | |
| 24 | What I Like About You | Romantics | |
| 25 | Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) | ABBA | |
| 26 | Oliver's Army | Elvis Costello | |
| 27 | Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen | |
| 28 | After the Love Has Gone | Earth, Wind & Fire | |
| 29 | Don't Bring Me Down | Electric Light Orchestra | |
| 30 | Ring My Bell | Anita Ward | |
| 31 | The Devil Went Down to Georgia | Charlie Daniels Band | |
| 32 | I Wanna Be Your Lover | Prince | |
| 33 | Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | |
| 34 | Bad Girls | Donna Summer | |
| 35 | Born to Be Alive | Patrick Hernandez | |
| 36 | Walking On the Moon | The Police | |
| 37 | Off the Wall | Michael Jackson | |
| 38 | Tusk | Fleetwood Mac | |
| 39 | Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now | McFadden & Whitehead | |
| 40 | Atomic | Blondie | |
| 41 | Ladies Night | Kool and the Gang | |
| 42 | Sara | Fleetwood Mac | |
| 43 | Pop Muzik | M | |
| 44 | Hey You | Pink Floyd | |
| 45 | And the Beat Goes On | Whispers | |
| 46 | She's Lost Control | Joy Division | |
| 47 | One Step Beyond | Madness | |
| 48 | I Don't Like Mondays | Boomtown Rats | |
| 49 | Escape (The Pina Colada Song) | Rupert Holmes | |
| 50 | Are Friends Electric? | Tubeway Army | |
| 51 | Tragedy | The Bee Gees | |
| 52 | A Message To You Rudy | Specials (featuring Rico) | |
| 53 | Life During Wartime | Talking Heads | |
| 54 | I Do Love You | GQ | |
| 55 | Transmission | Joy Division | |
| 56 | On The Radio | Donna Summer | |
| 57 | Breakfast In America | Supertramp | |
| 58 | She's Out of My Life | Michael Jackson | |
| 59 | In The Navy | Village People | |
| 60 | The Guns of Brixton | The Clash | |
| 61 | Don't Do Me Like That | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | |
| 62 | Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl | Spinners | |
| 63 | All My Love | Led Zeppelin | |
| 64 | Goodbye Stranger | Supertramp | |
| 65 | I Fought the Law | The Clash | |
| 66 | Mother | Pink Floyd | |
| 67 | Bela Lugosi's Dead | Bauhaus | |
| 68 | Making Plans For Nigel | XTC | |
| 69 | Still | Commodores | |
| 70 | Eton Rifles | The Jam | |
| 71 | Chiquitita | ABBA | |
| 72 | Funkin' For Jamaica | Tom Browne | |
| 73 | Dreaming | Blondie | |
| 74 | Gangsters | Special A.K.A. | |
| 75 | Sailing | Christopher Cross | |
| 76 | Up The Junction | Squeeze | |
| 77 | Let's Get Serious | Jermaine Jackson | |
| 78 | Cruel To Be Kind | Nick Lowe | |
| 79 | Take The Long Way Home | Supertramp | |
| 80 | The Second Time Around | Shalamar | |
| 81 | Does Your Mother Know | ABBA | |
| 82 | Heartbreaker | Pat Benatar | |
| 83 | Fool In the Rain | Led Zeppelin | |
| 84 | No More Tears | Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer | |
| 85 | Dance The Night Away | Van Halen | |
| 86 | Oops Up Side Your Head | Gap Band | |
| 87 | Heartache Tonight | Eagles | |
| 88 | Too Much Too Young | Specials | |
| 89 | Knee Deep | Funkadelic | |
| 90 | I Got You | Split Enz | |
| 91 | Ride Like The Wind | Christopher Cross | |
| 92 | Chuck E's In Love | Rickie Lee Jones | |
| 93 | Disco Nights | GQ | |
| 94 | Voulez-Vous | ABBA | |
| 95 | Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll | Vaughan Mason & Crew | |
| 96 | Let's Go | Cars | |
| 97 | Special Lady | Ray, Goodman & Brown | |
| 98 | Babe | Styx | |
| 99 | Rise | Herb Alpert | |
| 100 | I Call Your Name | Switch | |
| 20 more worth mentioning. | |||
| 101 | Since You've Been Gone | Rainbow | |
| 102 | Run Like Hell | Pink Floyd | |
| 103 | Rock 'n' Roll High School | Ramones | |
| 104 | Please Don't Go | KC & the Sunshine Band | |
| 105 | I Can't Tell You Why | Eagles | |
| 106 | Wonderful Christmastime | Paul McCartney | |
| 107 | My Girl | Madness | |
| 108 | The Ballad of Lucy Jordan | Marianne Faithfull | |
| 109 | Too Hot | Kool and the Gang | |
| 110 | We Don't Talk Anymore | Cliff Richard | |
| 111 | Turn Off The Lights | Teddy Pendergrass | |
| 112 | The Long Run | Eagles | |
| 113 | Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' | Journey | |
| 114 | Here Comes My Girl | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | |
| 115 | Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy | Bad Company | |
| 116 | Do You Love What You Feel | Rufus (featuring Chaka Khan) | |
| 117 | Flirtin' With Disaster | Molly Hatchet | |
| 118 | Girls Talk | Dave Edmunds | |
| 119 | Dim All The Lights | Donna Summer | |
| 120 | King Tim III | Fatback | |
DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 1979 | |||
| Brian's Choice: An unheralded great record from 1979 | |||
| * | Discovering Japan | Graham Parker & the Rumour | |
| Lew's Choice: | |||
| * | Gold | John Stewart | |
| Bruce's Choice: | |||
| * | We Were Both Wrong | Dave Edmunds | |
| Adam's Choice: | |||
| * | Stay In Time | Off Broadway USA | |
| Brett's Choice: | |||
| * | Daytime Nighttime Suffering | Paul McCartney & Wings | |
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100 Greatest Songs From 1979 | |||||
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Note: Yearly song lists go by earliest 'release date' (Single, Album, or Country of first release).
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