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 31648 votes)
#2 “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus (with 30363 votes)
#3 “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd (with 29596 votes)
#4 “Video Killed The Radio Star” by the Buggles (with 29215 votes)
#5 “Message in a Bottle (official video)” by the Police (with 29070 votes)
#6 “Sultans of Swing (official video)” by Dire Straits (with 28121 votes)
#7 “Roxanne (official video)” by the Police (with 27240 votes)
#8 “Broken English” by Marianne Faithfull (with 26219 votes)
#9 “Heart of Glass (official video)” by Blondie (with 25824 votes)
#10 “Dreaming (official video)” by Blondie (with 19547 votes)
#11 “Highway to Hell (official video)” by AC/DC (with 19399 votes)
#12 “What I Like About You (official video)” by the Romantics (with 19332 votes)
#13 “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd (with 19319 votes)
#14 “Hot Stuff - Bad Girls medley” by Donna Summer (with 18565 votes)
#15 “Jane” by Starship (with 16522 votes)
#16 “My Sharona” by the Knack (with 16361 votes)
#17 “Chuck E’s In Love” by Rickie Lee Jones (with 16008 votes)
#18 “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - acoustic version” by Neil Young (with 15256 votes)
#19 “Lovin, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (official video)” by Journey (with 14347 votes)
#20 “One Way or Another” by Blondie (with 13887 votes)
#21 “Tragedy” by the Bee Gees (with 11763 votes)
#22 “Hell Bent for Leather (live)” by Judas Priest (with 10252 votes)
#23 “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer (with 7619 votes)
