music released in 1979
singles released or popular in 1979
ranked by popular vote
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#1 “London Calling (official video)” by the Clash (with 36086 votes)
#2 “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus (with 34936 votes)
#3 “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd (with 34577 votes)
#4 “Video Killed The Radio Star” by the Buggles (with 33623 votes)
#5 “Message in a Bottle (official video)” by the Police (with 33460 votes)
#6 “Sultans of Swing (official video)” by Dire Straits (with 32556 votes)
#7 “Roxanne (official video)” by the Police (with 31471 votes)
#8 “Broken English” by Marianne Faithfull (with 30607 votes)
#9 “Heart of Glass (official video)” by Blondie (with 30520 votes)
#10 “Dreaming (official video)” by Blondie (with 23812 votes)
#11 “Highway to Hell (official video)” by AC/DC (with 23771 votes)
#12 “What I Like About You (official video)” by the Romantics (with 23723 votes)
#13 “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd (with 21341 votes)
#14 “Chuck E’s In Love” by Rickie Lee Jones (with 20807 votes)
#15 “Hot Stuff - Bad Girls medley” by Donna Summer (with 20662 votes)
#16 “My Sharona” by the Knack (with 20634 votes)
#17 “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - acoustic version” by Neil Young (with 19584 votes)
#18 “Lovin, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (official video)” by Journey (with 18624 votes)
#19 “Jane” by Starship (with 18267 votes)
#20 “One Way or Another” by Blondie (with 15863 votes)
#21 “Tragedy” by the Bee Gees (with 13758 votes)
#22 “Hell Bent for Leather (live)” by Judas Priest (with 12025 votes)
#23 “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer (with 9614 votes)
