List of number-one singles of 1979 (Canada)

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British progressive rock band Supertramp scored the Canada number-one year-end hit of 1979 with "The Logical Song". Supertramp1971.jpg
British progressive rock band Supertramp scored the Canada number-one year-end hit of 1979 with "The Logical Song".

RPM was a Canadian music magazine that published the bestselling singles chart in Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1979, twenty-eight singles reached number one in Canada. The first number one single was from Canadian rock musician Gino Vannelli, with "I Just Wanna Stop" which reached number one in December 1978, and the last was "Babe" from American rock band Styx. Twelve new acts had their first number-one song in the chart: Village People, Amii Stewart, Blondie, Peaches & Herb, Supertramp, Sister Sledge, Anita Ward, The Knack, Patrick Hernandez, Robert Palmer, M and Styx; the Village People and The Knack would also score another number-one hit that year. Only the Bee Gees and Donna Summer would more than one new number-one song in 1979. Excluding Gino Vannelli, which charted in late December 1978, Anne Murray was the only Canadian act with at least one number-one song in the chart that year, with "I Just Fall in Love Again".

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The best-performing single of the year was "The Logical Song" by the British progressive rock band Supertramp, which spent 28 weeks in the chart, including two weeks at number one. The longest-running number-one single is "Babe", which spent five weeks at number one in December 1979. The Bee Gees' "Tragedy", and Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" stayed at number one for four weeks that year.

Chart history

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on RPM's Year-End Top 200 Singles of 1979. [1]
The Bee Gees had the most number-one hits in Canada in 1979, with "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out". Bee Gees 1977.JPG
The Bee Gees had the most number-one hits in Canada in 1979, with "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out".
Styx (band pictured in 2017) spent five weeks at number one with the final number-one hit of the year, "Babe". Styx 2017.jpg
Styx (band pictured in 2017) spent five weeks at number one with the final number-one hit of the year, "Babe".
Chart history
Issue dateTitleArtist(s)Ref.
January 6 [A] "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vannelli
January 13"Le Freak" Chic [2]
January 20"Too Much Heaven" Bee Gees [3]
January 27"Y.M.C.A." Village People [4]
February 3 [5]
February 10"Too Much Heaven"Bee Gees [6]
February 17 [7]
February 24"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart [8]
March 3 [9]
March 10 [10]
March 17 [11]
March 24"Tragedy"Bee Gees [12]
March 31 [13]
April 7 [14]
April 14 [15]
April 21"I Just Fall in Love Again" Anne Murray [16]
April 28"What a Fool Believes" The Doobie Brothers [17]
May 5"Knock on Wood" Amii Stewart [18]
May 12"Heart of Glass" Blondie [19]
May 19"In the Navy"Village People [20]
May 26"Reunited" Peaches & Herb [21]
June 2 [22]
June 9"Hot Stuff" Donna Summer [23]
June 16 [24]
June 23"Love You Inside Out"Bee Gees [25]
June 30"The Logical Song" Supertramp [26]
July 7 [27]
July 14"We Are Family" Sister Sledge [28]
July 21 [29]
July 28"Ring My Bell" Anita Ward [30]
August 4 [31]
August 11"Bad Girls"Donna Summer [32]
August 18 [33]
August 25"Born to Be Alive" Patrick Hernandez [34]
September 1 [35]
September 8"My Sharona" The Knack [36]
September 15 [37]
September 22 [38]
September 29"I Was Made for Lovin' You" Kiss [39]
October 6"Don't Bring Me Down" Electric Light Orchestra [40]
October 13"Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" Robert Palmer [41]
October 20 [42]
October 28"Pop Muzik" M [43]
November 3 [44]
November 10"Good Girls Don't"The Knack [45]
November 17"Heartache Tonight" Eagles [46]
November 24 [47]
December 1"Babe" Styx [48]
December 8 [49]
December 15 [50]
December 22 [51]
December 29 [52]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to a week's break in publication for the 1978/1979 New Year period, the week of January 6 is inferred.

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  1. ↑ "1979 Top 200 Singles". RPM. Vol. 32, no. 13. December 22, 1979.
  2. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles: January 13, 1979". RPM.
  3. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles: January 20, 1979". RPM.
  4. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles: January 27, 1979". RPM.
  5. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles: February 3, 1979". RPM.
  6. ↑ "RPM 100 Singles: February 10, 1979". RPM.
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