1979

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Songs with multple appearances in 1979

1979 Songs

Possible 1979 Songs

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Song	Highest UK Chart	Main	Anniversary	Millennium	Yearbook
ABBA - Chiquitita	2				YB 1979
ABBA - Does Your Mother Know	4
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)	3				YB 1979
ABBA - I Have a Dream	2
ABBA - Voulez-Vous	3
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell	1
The B-52's - Rock Lobster	12				YB 1979
B.A. Robertson - Bang Bang	2				YB 1979
B.A. Robertson - Knocked It Off	8				YB X 1979
The Bee Gees - Tragedy	1
Blondie - Dreaming	2				YB 1979
Blondie - Heart Of Glass	1				YB 1979
Blondie - Sunday Girl	1				YB X 1979
Blondie - Union City Blue	13				YB X 1979
Boney M. - Gotta Go Home	12				YB X 1979
Boney M. - Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday	3				YB 1979
Boney M. - Painter Man	10				YB X 1979
Chic - Good Times	5				YB 1979
Chic - I Want Your Love	4				YB 1979
Chic - My Feet Keep Dancing	21				YB X 1979
Chic - My Forbidden Lover	15				YB X 1979
Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore	1				YB 1979
Commodores - Sail On	8				YB X 1979
Commodores - Still	4				YB 1979
The Damned - Love Song	20
Diana Ross - The Boss	40				YB X 1979
Dollar - I Wanna Hold Your Hand	9				YB 1980
Dollar - Love's Gotta Hold On Me	4				YB 1979
Dollar - Who Were You With in the Moonlight	14				YB X 1979
Donna Summer - Bad Girls	14				YB 1979
Donna Summer - Dim All the Lights	29				YB X 1979
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff	11				YB 1979
Earth, Wind and Fire - After the Love Has Gone	4				YB X 1979
Earth, Wind and Fire/The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland	4				YB 1979
Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down	3				YB 1979
Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train to London	8				YB X 1979
Electric Light Orchestra - Shine A Little Love	6				YB 1979
Elton John - Are You Ready for Love	1	56
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen	28				YB 1979
Gary Moore/Phil Lynott - Parisienne Walkways	8				YB 1979
Gary Numan - Cars	1				YB 1979
Gerry Rafferty - Get It Right Next Time	30				YB X 1979
Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl	5				YB 1979
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive	1				YB 1979
The Isley Brothers - It's a Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)	14				YB X 1979
The Jam - The Eton Rifles	3				YB 1979
The Jam - Strange Town	15				YB X 1979
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him?	13				YB 1979
Kate Bush - Wow	14				YB 1979
Kiss - I Was Made for Lovin' You	50
The Knack - My Sharona	6				YB 1979
Kool and the Gang - Ladies Night	9				YB 1979
Madness - One Step Beyond	7				YB 1979
Madness - The Prince	16				YB X 1979
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell	8				YB 1979
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough	3
Mike Oldfield - Blue Peter	19				YB X 1979
Milk & Honey - Hallelujah	5				YB 1979
Neil Diamond - Forever in Blue Jeans	16				YB 1979
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime	6				YB X 1979
The Police - Message In A Bottle	1				YB X 1979
The Police - Roxanne	12
The Police - Walking on the Moon	1				YB 1979
Pretenders - Brass In Pocket	1				YB 1980
Pretenders - Kid	33				YB X 1979
Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing	34				YB 1979
Public Image Ltd - Death Disco	20				YB X 1979
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love	2				YB X 1979
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now	9				YB 1979
Roxy Music - Angel Eyes	4				YB X 1979
Roxy Music - Dance Away	2				YB 1979
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Playground Twist	28				YB X 1979
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Staircase (Mystery)	24				YB 1979
Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer	6				YB 1979
Sister Sledge - Lost In Music	17				YB X 1979
Sister Sledge - We Are Family	8				YB 1979
Sparks - Beat the Clock	10				YB 1979
Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven	14				YB X 1979
The Specials - Gangsters	6				YB 1979
The Specials - A Message to You Rudy	10
Squeeze - Cool for Cats	2				YB 1979
Squeeze - Up the Junction	2				YB X 1979
Status Quo - Whatever You Want	4				YB X 1979
Suzi Quatro - She's in Love With You	11				YB 1979
The Three Degrees - My Simple Heart	9				YB X 1979
The Three Degrees - The Runner	10				YB X 1979
The Three Degrees - Woman in Love	3				YB 1979
The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy	16				YB X 1979
Wings - Goodnight Tonight	5				YB 1979
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel	17				YB 1979

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Songs yet to be sorted that appear on a Now album in 1979

Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood

Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes

Billy Joel - Honesty

The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles

The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

Cats U.K. - Luton Airport

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Cher - Take Me Home

The Clash - English Civil War

The Clash - I Fought the Law

The Crusaders - Street Life

Dan Hartman - This Is It

Darts - Duke of Earl

Darts - Get It

Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk

The Dickies - Banana Splits

The Dooleys - Wanted

Dr. Feelgood - Milk and Alcohol

Dr. Hook - When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman

Driver 67 - Car 67

Dynasty - I Don't Want to Be a Freak (But I Can't Help Myself)

Edwin Starr - Contact

Edwin Starr - H.A.P.P.Y. Radio

Eruption - One Way Ticket

Fiddler's Dram - Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time)

The Flying Lizards - Money

Frantique - Strut Your Funky Stuff

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3

The Jags - Back of My Hand

Janet Kay - Silly Games

Kate Bush - Them Heavy People

The Korgis - If I Had You

Leif Garrett - I Was Made For Dancin'

Lena Martell - One Day at a Time

Lene Lovich - Lucky Number

M - Pop Muzik

Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

The Members - The Sounds of the Suburbs

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity

Peaches & Herb - Reunited

Racey - Lay Your Love on Me

Racey - Some Girls

Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

The Real Thing - Can You Feel The Force

Rose Royce - Is It Love You're After

The Ruts - Babylon's Burning

Sad Café - Every Day Hurts

Sally Oldfield - Mirrors

Secret Affair - Time For Action

The Selecter - On My Radio

Sex Pistols - C'Mon Everybody

Sex Pistols - Something Else

Skids - Into the Valley

Skids - Working for the Yankee Dollar

The Stranglers - Duchess

The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi

Toto - Hold The Line

The Tourists - I Only Want to Be With You

The Tourists - The Loneliest Man in the World

Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?

Village People - In The Navy

Village People - Y.M.C.A.

Voyage - Let's Fly Away