List of Billboard number-one disco singles of 1979
The National Disco Action Top 40 was a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, which ranked the popularity of disco singles in nightclubs across the country, based on a national survey of club disc jockeys. Adjusted multiple times during 1979, the chart expanded to 60 positions on April 7, and was renamed the Disco Top 80 on April 14. The chart was further extended as the Disco Top 100 on September 8.
Chart history
| Issue date | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| January 6 | "Le Freak"/ "I Want Your Love"/ "Chic Cheer" |
Chic |
| January 13 | "Contact" | Edwin Starr |
| January 20 | Fly Away (all cuts) | Voyage |
| January 27 | "I Will Survive"/ "Substitute"/ "Anybody Wanna Party?"/ "I Said Yes" |
Gloria Gaynor |
| February 3 | ||
| February 10 | ||
| February 17 | "Keep on Dancin'"/ "Do It at the Disco"/ "Let's Lovedance Tonight" |
Gary's Gang |
| February 24 | "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | Rod Stewart |
| March 3 | ||
| March 10 | ||
| March 17 | "I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)" | Instant Funk |
| March 24 | "We Are Family"/ "He's the Greatest Dancer"/ "Lost in Music" |
Sister Sledge |
| March 31 | ||
| April 7 | "Dancer"/ "Dance to Dance" |
Gino Soccio |
| April 14 | ||
| April 21 | ||
| April 28 | ||
| May 5 | ||
| May 12 | ||
| May 19 | "Ring My Bell" | Anita Ward |
| May 26 | Bad Girls (all cuts)[1] | Donna Summer |
| June 2 | ||
| June 9 | ||
| June 16 | ||
| June 23 | ||
| June 30 | ||
| July 7 | ||
| July 14 | "Born to Be Alive" | Patrick Hernandez |
| July 21 | ||
| July 28 | ||
| August 4 | "I've Got the Next Dance" | Deniece Williams |
| August 11 | "This Time Baby" | Jackie Moore |
| August 18 | "Here Comes That Sound Again" | Love De-Luxe |
| August 25 | The Boss (all cuts) | Diana Ross |
| September 1 | ||
| September 8 | "Found a Cure"/ "Stay Free"/ "Nobody Knows" |
Ashford & Simpson |
| September 15 | ||
| September 22 | "Come to Me"/ "Don't Stop Dancing"/ "Playboy" |
France Joli |
| September 29 | ||
| October 6 | ||
| October 13 | "Move On Up"/ "Up Up Up"/ "Destination's Theme" |
Destination |
| October 20 | ||
| October 27 | ||
| November 3 | ||
| November 10 | "Harmony"/ "Ooh, La La" |
Suzi Lane |
| November 17 | "Beat of the Night"/ "Pump It Up" |
Fever |
| November 24 | "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" | Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer |
| December 1 | ||
| December 8 | ||
| December 15 | ||
| December 22 | "Deputy of Love" | Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band |
| December 29 | ||
See also
References
- ↑ "Gene J2P and P2J Ver 1 - Billboard 1979-05-26.pdf" (PDF). Billboard Magazine. May 26, 1979. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
- Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16, retrieved 2010-03-26
- Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1975—1979.