List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1980

Queen scored two #1 hits with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" in 1980.

Kenny Rogers scored his first #1 hit with "Lady" in 1980.

John Lennon (pictured in 1969) became the fourth solo act to have a number-one hit posthumously after he was murdered in December 1980 with "(Just Like) Starting Over", reaching #1 in 1980 and 1981.

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980. The two longest running number-one singles of 1980 are "Call Me" by Blondie and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers with each single obtaining six weeks on top of the chart. Every song that went to number one for 1980 stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 over 20 weeks.Template:Citation needed

That year, six acts hit number one for the first time, such as Queen, Pink Floyd, Lipps Inc., Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Rogers. John Lennon was the fourth artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in December 1980.

The British rock band Queen was the only act to achieve multiple number-one songs during the year with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust".

Chart history

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1980 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

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480	January 5	"Please Don't Go"	KC and the Sunshine Band	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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481	January 19	"Rock with You"	Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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482	February 16	"Do That to Me One More Time"	Captain & Tennille	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
483	February 23	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"	Queen	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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484	March 22	"Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"	Pink Floyd	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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486	May 31	"Funkytown"	Lipps Inc.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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487	June 28	"Coming Up"	Paul McCartney	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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488	July 19	"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"	Billy Joel	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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489	August 2	"Magic"	Olivia Newton-John	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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490	August 30	"Sailing"	Christopher Cross	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
491	September 6	"Upside Down"	Diana Ross	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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492	October 4	"Another One Bites the Dust"	Queen	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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493	October 25	"Woman in Love"	Barbra Streisand	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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494	November 15	"Lady"	Kenny Rogers	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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495	December 27	"(Just Like) Starting Over"	John Lennon	<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	Queen	7
2	Blondie	6
	Kenny Rogers
4	Michael Jackson	4
	Pink Floyd
	Lipps Inc.
	Olivia Newton-John
	Diana Ross
9	Paul McCartney	3
	Barbra Streisand
11	Billy Joel	2
12	KC and the Sunshine Band	1
	Rupert Holmes
	Captain & Tennille
	Christopher Cross
	John Lennon

See also

• 1980 in music
• List of Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1980
• Lists of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s

Additional 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 Eighties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.