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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting singles on the Australian Singles Charts, for the year of 1980. These were the best charting singles in Australia for 1980. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report". [1]
# | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 |
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1. | "I Got You" | Split Enz | 1 | 8 |
2. | "Turning Japanese" | The Vapors | 1 | 2 |
3. | "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Queen | 1 | 7 |
4. | "Another Brick in the Wall part 2" | Pink Floyd | 2 | |
5. | "Brass in Pocket" | The Pretenders | 2 | |
6. | "Can't Stop the Music" | Village People | 1 | 4 |
7. | "Space Invaders" | Player One | 3 | |
8. | "More Than I Can Say" | Leo Sayer | 1 | 2 |
9. | "Funkytown" | Lipps Inc. | 1 | 2 |
10. | "Please Don't Go" | KC and the Sunshine Band | 1 | 2 |
11. | "Tired of Toein' the Line" | Rocky Burnette | 1 | 2 |
12. | "Don't Stop til You Get Enough" | Michael Jackson | 1 | 3 |
13. | "What I Like About You" | The Romantics | 2 | |
14. | "Dreaming My Dreams With You" | Colleen Hewett | 2 | |
15. | "Upside Down" | Diana Ross | 1 | 4 |
16. | "Moscow" | Dschinghis Khan | 1 | 6 |
17. | "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" | Long John Baldry & Kathi McDonald | 2 | |
18. | "He's My Number One" | Christie Allen | 4 | |
19. | "Call Me" | Blondie | 4 | |
20. | "Babooshka" | Kate Bush | 2 | |
21. | "Woman in Love" | Barbra Streisand | 1 | 2 |
22. | "Coming Up" | Paul McCartney | 2 | |
23. | "Shandi" | Kiss | 5 | |
24. | "Blame It on the Boogie" | The Jacksons | 4 | |
25. | "Ashes to Ashes" | David Bowie | 3 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report.
"Lost in Love" is a song recorded by the British/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply. The song was written by group member Graham Russell. The original version of the song appeared on the Life Support album in 1979 and was released as a single in Australia, reaching number 13 on the Kent Music Report. The group re-recorded the song for the album of the same name in 1980 and this version was released as a single in the US, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Every Little Bit Hurts" was originally a 1964 hit single for Motown soul singer Brenda Holloway, written by Ed Cobb.
"Sure Know Something" is a single by American hard rock band Kiss, released on their 1979 album Dynasty.
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts.
Anne Murray's Greatest Hits is the second compilation album by the Canadian country pop artist of the same name, released in 1980 via Capitol Records. It is a collection of nine previously issued singles released between 1970 and 1980, as well as one new track, "Could I Have This Dance", which was newly recorded for this album reaching #33 on Billboard's Hot 100.
"Fly Too High" is a song by Janis Ian. It is a track from her 1979 LP, Night Rains.