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 40886 votes)
#2 “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd (with 39829 votes)
#3 “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus (with 39694 votes)
#4 “Video Killed The Radio Star” by the Buggles (with 38422 votes)
#5 “Message in a Bottle (official video)” by the Police (with 38313 votes)
#6 “Sultans of Swing (official video)” by Dire Straits (with 37543 votes)
#7 “Roxanne (official video)” by the Police (with 36237 votes)
#8 “Heart of Glass (official video)” by Blondie (with 35991 votes)
#9 “Broken English” by Marianne Faithfull (with 35563 votes)
#10 “Dreaming (official video)” by Blondie (with 28641 votes)
#11 “Highway to Hell (official video)” by AC/DC (with 28636 votes)
#12 “What I Like About You (official video)” by the Romantics (with 28558 votes)
#13 “Chuck E’s In Love” by Rickie Lee Jones (with 26274 votes)
#14 “My Sharona” by the Knack (with 25535 votes)
#15 “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - acoustic version” by Neil Young (with 24408 votes)
#16 “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd (with 23453 votes)
#17 “Lovin, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (official video)” by Journey (with 23446 votes)
#18 “Hot Stuff - Bad Girls medley” by Donna Summer (with 23246 votes)
#19 “Jane” by Starship (with 20091 votes)
#20 “One Way or Another” by Blondie (with 17992 votes)
#21 “Tragedy” by the Bee Gees (with 16182 votes)
#22 “Hell Bent for Leather (live)” by Judas Priest (with 13908 votes)
#23 “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer (with 12035 votes)
