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This is a summary of 1978 in music in the United Kingdom.
Date | Song | Artist |
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1 January | "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School" | Wings |
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15 January | ||
22 January | ||
29 January | "Uptown Top Ranking" | Althea & Donna |
5 February | "Figaro" | Brotherhood of Man |
12 February | "Take a Chance on Me" | ABBA |
19 February | ||
26 February | ||
5 March | "Wuthering Heights" | Kate Bush |
12 March | ||
19 March | ||
26 April | ||
2 April | "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" | Brian and Michael |
9 April | ||
16 April | ||
23 April | "Night Fever" | Bee Gees |
30 April | ||
7 May | "Rivers of Babylon" | Boney M |
14 May | ||
21 May | ||
28 May | ||
4 June | ||
11 June | "You're the One That I Want" | John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John |
18 June | ||
25 June | ||
2 July | ||
9 July | ||
16 July | ||
23 July | ||
30 July | ||
6 August | ||
13 August | "Three Times a Lady" | The Commodores |
20 August | ||
27 August | ||
3 September | ||
10 September | ||
17 September | "Dreadlock Holiday" | 10cc |
24 September | "Summer Nights" | John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John |
1 October | ||
8 October | ||
15 October | ||
22 October | ||
29 October | ||
5 November | ||
12 November | "Rat Trap" | The Boomtown Rats |
19 November | ||
26 November | "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | Rod Stewart |
3 December | "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord" | Boney M |
10 December | ||
17 December | ||
24 December | ||
31 December | "Y.M.C.A." | The Village People |
Date | Album | Artist | Weeks |
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7 January | Disco Fever | Various Artists | 2 |
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21 January | The Sound of Bread | Bread | 1 |
28 January | Rumours | Fleetwood Mac | 1 |
4 February | The Album | ABBA | 7 |
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25 March | 20 Golden Greats | Buddy Holly and The Crickets | 3 |
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15 April | 20 Golden Greats | Nat 'King' Cole | 3 |
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6 May | Saturday Night Fever | Original Soundtrack | 18 |
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9 September | Nightflight to Venus | Boney M | 4 |
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7 October | Grease | Original Soundtrack | 13 |
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28 October | |||
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The tables below include sales between 31 December 1977 and 30 December 1978: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of Music Week dated 23 December 1978 and played on Radio 1 on 31 December 1978 only include sales figures up until 16 December 1978.
Notes:
The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its "Summer of Love" in San Francisco. It saw major releases from multiple well-known bands including The Beatles, Small Faces, the newly renamed Eric Burdon and the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Beach Boys, Cream, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Monkees. This year also saw debuts from many upcoming bands such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Doors, Moby Grape, Procol Harum, Traffic, The Velvet Underground, and Pink Floyd.
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