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 31202 votes)
#2 “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus (with 29936 votes)
#3 “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd (with 29112 votes)
#4 “Video Killed The Radio Star” by the Buggles (with 28762 votes)
#5 “Message in a Bottle (official video)” by the Police (with 28610 votes)
#6 “Sultans of Swing (official video)” by Dire Straits (with 27679 votes)
#7 “Roxanne (official video)” by the Police (with 26802 votes)
#8 “Broken English” by Marianne Faithfull (with 25772 votes)
#9 “Heart of Glass (official video)” by Blondie (with 25390 votes)
#10 “Dreaming (official video)” by Blondie (with 19114 votes)
#11 “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd (with 19100 votes)
#12 “Highway to Hell (official video)” by AC/DC (with 18997 votes)
#13 “What I Like About You (official video)” by the Romantics (with 18902 votes)
#14 “Hot Stuff - Bad Girls medley” by Donna Summer (with 18382 votes)
#15 “Jane” by Starship (with 16314 votes)
#16 “My Sharona” by the Knack (with 15903 votes)
#17 “Chuck E’s In Love” by Rickie Lee Jones (with 15538 votes)
#18 “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - acoustic version” by Neil Young (with 14810 votes)
#19 “Lovin, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (official video)” by Journey (with 13904 votes)
#20 “One Way or Another” by Blondie (with 13690 votes)
#21 “Tragedy” by the Bee Gees (with 11562 votes)
#22 “Hell Bent for Leather (live)” by Judas Priest (with 10049 votes)
#23 “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer (with 7436 votes)
