1979
These songs are all based on year of first release. Many songs that were hits in 1979 were first released in ''78. Similar many songs here were hits in 1980, but were released in 1979.
| Chiquitita | ABBA |
| Does Your Mother Know? | ABBA |
| Voulez-vous | ABBA |
| Gimme Gimme Gimme | ABBA |
| I Have a Dream | ABBA |
| Highway to Hell | AC/DC |
| Girls Got Rhythm | AC/DC |
| Touch Too Much | AC/DC |
| Remember | Aerosmith |
| Damned if I do | Alan Parsons Project |
| Knock on Wood | Amii Stewart |
| Light My Fire | Amii Stewart |
| Father's Eyes | Amy Grant |
| Teenage Warning | Angelic Upstarts |
| Ring My Bell | Anita Ward |
| Shadows in the Moonlight | Anne Murray |
| I Just Fall in Love Again | Anne Murray |
| Planet Claire | B-52's |
| Bang Bang | BA Robertson |
| Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy | Bad Company |
| Lady Lynda | Beach Boys |
| Tragedy | Bee Gees |
| Love You Inside Out | Bee Gees |
| Spirits | Bee Gees |
| If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me | Bellamy Brothers |
| In the Brownies | Billy Connolly |
| With You I'm Born Again | Billy Preston & Syreeta Wright |
| Dreaming | Blondie |
| Union City Blue | Blondie |
| Atomic | Blondie |
| Zimbabwe | Bob Marley & the Wailers |
| One Drop | Bob Marley & the Wailers |
| Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday! | Boney M |
| Bahama Mama | Boney M |
| I Don't Like Mondays | Boomtown Rats |
| Video Killed the Radio Star | Buggles |
| Everybody's Happy Nowadays | Buzzcocks |
| Do That to Me One More Time | Captain & Tennille |
| Let's Go | Cars |
| The Devil Went Down to Georgia | Charlie Daniels Band |
| Gertcha | Chas & Dave |
| Dream Police | Cheap Trick |
| Take Me Home | Cher |
| Sailing | Christopher Cross |
| Ride Like the Wind | Christopher Cross |
| English Civil War | Clash |
| Capital Radio Two | Clash |
| I Fought the Law | Clash |
| London Calling | Clash |
| Spanish Bombs | Clash |
| Lost in the Supermarket | Clash |
| Train in Vain | Clash |
| Death or Glory | Clash |
| We Don't Talk Anymore | Cliff Richard |
| Carrie | Cliff Richard |
| Sail On | Commodores |
| Still | Commodores |
| Boys Don't Cry | Cure |
| Love Song | Damned |
| Boys Keep Swinging | David Bowie |
| Girls Talk | David Edmunds |
| Imperial Wizzard | David Essex |
| Makin It | David Naughton |
| Secret Agent Man | Devo |
| I'll Never Love This Way Again | Dionne Warwick |
| Hot Stuff | Donna Summer |
| On the Radio | Donna Summer |
| Dim All the Lights | Donna Summer |
| No More Tears | Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand |
| Milk and Alcohol | Dr. Feelgood |
| When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman | Dr. Hook |
| Better Love Next Time | Dr. Hook |
| Sexy Eyes | Dr. Hook |
| Heartache Tonight | Eagles |
| I Can't Tell You Why | Eagles |
| After the Love Has Gone | Earth, Wind & Fire |
| Boogie Wonderland | Earth, Wind & Fire feat. The Emotions |
| Suspicions | Eddie Rabbitt |
| Living on the Front Line | Eddy Grant |
| Shine a Little Love | Electric Light Orchestra |
| Don't Bring Me Down | Electric Light Orchestra |
| Mama Can't Buy You Love | Elton John |
| Oliver's Army | Elvis Costello & the Attractions |
| Accidents Will Happen | Elvis Costello & the Attractions |
| Tusk | Fleetwood Mac |
| Sara | Fleetwood Mac |
| Sisters of the Moon | Fleetwood Mac |
| Money | Flying Lizards |
| Dirty White Boy | Foreigner |
| Sleep Dirt | Frank Zappa |
| Joe's Garage | Frank Zappa |
| Parisienne Walkways | Gary Moore |
| Cars | Gary Numan |
| Complex | Gary Numan |
| Valley of the Dolls | Generation X |
| Night Owl | Gerry Rafferty |
| Wait for Me | Hall & Oates |
| Rise | Herb Alpert |
| You Bet Your Love | Herbie Hancock |
| Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3 | Ian Dury & the Blockheads |
| Cleveland Rocks | Ian Hunter |
| Strange Town | Jam |
| When You're Young | Jam |
| Eton Rifles | Jam |
| Silly Games | Janet Kay |
| Jane | Jefferson Starship |
| It's Different for Girls | Joe Jackson |
| I Need a Lover | John Cougar |
| Gold | John Stewart |
| Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' | Journey |
| She's Lost Control | Joy Division |
| Disorder | Joy Division |
| Please Don't Go | KC & the Sunshine Band |
| This Is It | Kenny Loggins |
| Coward of the County | Kenny Rogers |
| I Was Made for Lovin You | KISS |
| My Sharona | Knack |
| Ladies Night | Kool & the Gang |
| Christmas Rappin' | Kurtis Blow |
| Fool in the Rain | Led Zeppelin |
| I Was Made for Dancin | Leif Garrett |
| One Day at a Time | Lena Martell |
| Lucky Number | Lene Lovich |
| Lonesome Loser | Little River Band |
| Cool Change | Little River Band |
| Let Me Be Good to You | Lou Rawls |
| Pop Muzik | M |
| The Prince | Madness |
| One Step Beyond | Madness |
| My Girl | Madness |
| Night Boat to Cairo | Madness |
| Lead Me On | Maxine Nightingale |
| Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now | McFadden & Whitehead |
| Don't Stop Till You Get Enough | Michael Jackson |
| Off the Wall | Michael Jackson |
| Rock with You | Michael Jackson |
| Guilty | Mike Oldfield |
| Flirting with Disaster | Molly Hatchet |
| Overkill | Motorhead |
| Hey Hey My My | Neil Young & Crazy Horse |
| Powderfinger | Neil Young & Crazy Horse |
| Sing a Happy Song | O'Jays |
| Heartbreaker | Pat Benatar |
| Born to Be Alive | Patrick Hernandez |
| Wonderful Christmas Time | Paul McCartney |
| Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 | Pink Floyd |
| Mother | Pink Floyd |
| Young Lust | Pink Floyd |
| Hey You | Pink Floyd |
| Comfortably Numb | Pink Floyd |
| Waiting for the Worms | Pink Floyd |
| Message in a Bottle | Police |
| Walking on the Moon | Police |
| The Bed's Too Big without You | Police |
| Stop Your Sobbing | Pretenders |
| Kid | Pretenders |
| Brass in Pocket | Pretenders |
| I Wanna Be Your Lover | Prince |
| Memories | Public Image Ltd. |
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen |
| Play the Game | Queen |
| Save Me | Queen |
| Another One Bites the Dust | Queen |
| Some Girls | Racey |
| Boy Oh Boy | Racey |
| Since You've Been Gone | Rainbow |
| Just When I Need You Most | Randy VanWarmer |
| You Can't Change That | Raydio |
| Chuck E.’s In Love | Rickie Lee Jones |
| Sad Eyes | Robert John |
| Bad Case of Lovin' You | Robert Palmer |
| Is It Love You're After? | Rose Royce |
| Dance Away | Roxy Music |
| Angel Eyes | Roxy Music |
| Escape | Rupert Holmes |
| Every Day Hurts | Sad Café |
| Something Else | Sex Pistols |
| C'mon Everybody | Sex Pistols |
| The Second Time Around | Shalamar |
| Hersham Boys | Sham 69 |
| Staircase | Siouxsie & the Banshees |
| He's the Greatest Dancer | Sister Sledge |
| We Are Family | Sister Sledge |
| Lost in Music | Sister Sledge |
| Cruisin' | Smokey Robinson |
| Gangsters | Specials |
| A Message to You | Specials |
| Morning Dance | Spyro Gyra |
| Cool for Cats | Squeeze |
| Up the Junction | Squeeze |
| Whatever You Want | Status Quo |
| Send One Your Love | Stevie Wonder |
| Alternative Ulster | Stiff Little Fingers |
| Duchess | Stranglers |
| Babe | Styx |
| Why Me | Styx |
| Rapper's Delight | Sugarhill Gang |
| Logical Song | Supertramp |
| Breakfast in America | Supertramp |
| She's in Love with You | Suzi Quatro |
| Force Majeure | Tangerine Dream |
| Waiting for an Alibi | Thin Lizzy |
| Do Anything You Want To | Thin Lizzy |
| Sarah | Thin Lizzy |
| Woman in Love | Three Degrees |
| Refugee | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| The Loneliest Man in the World | Tourists |
| Are Friends Electric? | Tubeway Army |
| Doctor Doctor (live) | UFO |
| Jimmy Jimmy | Undertones |
| Dance the Night Away | Van Halen |
| In the Navy | Village People |
| Go West | Village People |
| And the Beat Goes On | Whispers |
| Goodnight Tonight | Wings |
| The 15th | Wire |
| Making Plans for Nigel | XTC |
| Cheap Sunglasses | ZZ Top |
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