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Top Songs of 1979

  1. London Calling - The Clash

  2. Highway to Hell - AC/DC 

  3. I Fought the Law - The Clash

  4. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

  5. Tommy Gun - The Clash

  6. Dance the Night Away - Van Halen 

  7. A Message To You Rudy - The Specials

  8. Rock 'n' Roll High School - The Ramones

  9. One Step Beyond - Madness

  10. One Way or Another - Blondie 

  11. Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe 

  12. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads 

  13. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

  14. English Civil War - The Clash

  15. Heart of Glass - Blondie 

  16. Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure

  17. I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss 

  18. Dreaming - Blondie 

  19. Do Anything You Want To Do - Thin Lizzy

  20. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd 

  21. Message in a Bottle - The Police 

  22. Waiting for an Alibi - Thin Lizzy

  23. Beautiful Girls - Van Halen 

  24. Dream Police - Cheap Trick 

  25. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang 

  26. Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles 

  27. Ain't That a Shame - Cheap Trick 

  28. Girls Got Rhythm - AC/DC

  29. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson 

  30. Making Plans for Nigel - XTC

  31. Transmission - Joy Division

  32. Renegade - Styx 

  33. Hey You - Pink Floyd 

  34. I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick 

  35. Bicycle Race - Queen 

  36. Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello

  37. Roxanne - The Police 

  38. The Eton Rifles  - The Jam

  39. Cool for Cats - Squeeze

  40. Kid - The Pretenders

  41. Rock and Roll Fantasy - Bad Company 

  42. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits 

  43. Take Me To the River - Talking Heads 

  44. Walking on the Moon - The Police

  45. Babe - Styx 

  46. Don’t Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra 

  47. Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen 

  48. Gangsters - The Specials

  49. Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson

  50. Up the Junction - Squeeze

  51. Strange Town - The Jam

  52. The Prince - Madness

  53. I Need a Lover - John Cougar 

  54. Shattered - The Rolling Stones

  55. When You're Young - The Jam

  56. Sarah - Thin Lizzy

  57. Planet Claire - The B-52's

  58. Good Times Roll - The Cars 

  59. Pop Muzik - M

  60. Hold the Line - Toto 

  61. Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson 

  62. Good Girls Don't - The Knack

  63. My Sharona - The Knack 

  64. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers 

  65. In the Navy - Village People 

  66. We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 

  67. Heartache Tonight - The Eagles 

  68. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes 

  69. Tragedy - The Bee Gees

  70. Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp 

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