1979

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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
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood 6 YB 1979
Amii Stewart - Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven 5
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell 1
Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes 1 YB 1979
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
The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles 13 YB X 1979
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 1 YB 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
Dan Hartman - This Is It 17 YB X 1979
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

Billy Joel - Honesty
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
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