List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1979

Gloria Gaynor scored a #1 hit with "I Will Survive" in 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

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1979 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

Template:Abbr	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Template:Abbr
457	January 6	"Too Much Heaven"	Bee Gees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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re	January 20	"Le Freak"	Chic	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	February 3			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
458	February 10	"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"	Rod Stewart	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	February 24			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	March 3			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
459	March 10	"I Will Survive"	Gloria Gaynor	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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460	March 24	"Tragedy"	Bee Gees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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re	April 7	"I Will Survive"	Gloria Gaynor	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
461	April 14	"What a Fool Believes"	The Doobie Brothers	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
462	April 21	"Knock on Wood"	Amii Stewart	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
463	April 28	"Heart of Glass"	Blondie	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
464	May 5	"Reunited"	Peaches & Herb	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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465	June 2	"Hot Stuff"	Donna Summer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
466	June 9	"Love You Inside Out"	Bee Gees	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
re	June 16	"Hot Stuff"	Donna Summer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	June 23			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
467	June 30	"Ring My Bell"	Anita Ward	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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468	July 14	"Bad Girls"	Donna Summer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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469	August 18	"Good Times"	Chic	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
470	August 25	"My Sharona"	The Knack	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	September 1			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	September 8			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	September 15			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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471	October 6	"Sad Eyes"	Robert John	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
472	October 13	"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"	Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
473	October 20	"Rise"	Herb Alpert	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	October 27			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
474	November 3	"Pop Muzik"	M	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
475	November 10	"Heartache Tonight"	Eagles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
476	November 17	"Still"	Commodores	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
477	November 24	"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"	Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	December 1			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
478	December 8	"Babe"	Styx	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	December 15			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
479	December 22	"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"	Rupert Holmes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	December 29*			<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	Donna Summer	10
2	The Knack	6
3	Bee Gees	5
4	Rod Stewart	4
	Peaches & Herb
	Chic
7	Gloria Gaynor	3
8	Anita Ward	2
	Herb Alpert
	Barbra Streisand
	Styx
	Rupert Holmes
13	The Doobie Brothers	1
	Amii Stewart
	Blondie
	Robert John
	Michael Jackson
	M
	Eagles
	Commodores

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

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.