List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1978

Template:Short description Template:Italic title 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.

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The Bee Gees scored three #1 singles in 1978 with "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever".

Chart history

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1978 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

An asterisk (*) by date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

Template:Abbr	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Template:Abbr
437	January 7	"How Deep Is Your Love"	Bee Gees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
438	January 14	"Baby Come Back"	Player	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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439	February 4	"Stayin' Alive"	Bee Gees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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440	March 4	"(Love Is) Thicker Than Water"	Andy Gibb	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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441	March 18	"Night Fever"	Bee Gees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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442	May 13	"If I Can't Have You"	Yvonne Elliman	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
443	May 20	"With a Little Luck"	Wings	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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444	June 3	"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late"	Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
445	June 10	"You're the One That I Want"	John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
446	June 17	"Shadow Dancing"	Andy Gibb	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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447	August 5	"Miss You"	The Rolling Stones	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
448	August 12	"Three Times a Lady"	Commodores	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	August 19			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
449	August 26	"Grease"	Frankie Valli	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	September 2			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
450	September 9	"Boogie Oogie Oogie"	A Taste of Honey	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	September 16			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	September 23			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
451	September 30	"Kiss You All Over"	Exile	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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452	October 28	"Hot Child in the City"	Nick Gilder	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
453	November 4	"You Needed Me"	Anne Murray	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
454	November 11	"MacArthur Park"	Donna Summer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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455	December 2	"You Don't Bring Me Flowers"	Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
456	December 9	"Le Freak"	Chic	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
re	December 16	"You Don't Bring Me Flowers"	Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
re	December 23	"Le Freak"	Chic	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	December 30*			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Bee Gees	13
2	Andy Gibb	9
3	Exile	4
4	Player	3
	A Taste of Honey
	Donna Summer
	Chic
8	Wings	2
	Commodores
	Frankie Valli
	Barbra Streisand
	Neil Diamond
13	Yvonne Elliman	1
	Johnny Mathis
	Deniece Williams
	John Travolta
	Olivia Newton-John
	The Rolling Stones
	Nick Gilder
	Anne Murray

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

Sources

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