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 37424 votes)
#2 “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus (with 36260 votes)
#3 “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” by Pink Floyd (with 35938 votes)
#4 “Video Killed The Radio Star” by the Buggles (with 34964 votes)
#5 “Message in a Bottle (official video)” by the Police (with 34803 votes)
#6 “Sultans of Swing (official video)” by Dire Straits (with 33899 votes)
#7 “Roxanne (official video)” by the Police (with 32809 votes)
#8 “Heart of Glass (official video)” by Blondie (with 32050 votes)
#9 “Broken English” by Marianne Faithfull (with 31963 votes)
#10 “Dreaming (official video)” by Blondie (with 25171 votes)
#11 “Highway to Hell (official video)” by AC/DC (with 25110 votes)
#12 “What I Like About You (official video)” by the Romantics (with 25059 votes)
#13 “Chuck E’s In Love” by Rickie Lee Jones (with 22269 votes)
#14 “My Sharona” by the Knack (with 21959 votes)
#15 “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd (with 21953 votes)
#16 “Hot Stuff - Bad Girls medley” by Donna Summer (with 21462 votes)
#17 “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - acoustic version” by Neil Young (with 20895 votes)
#18 “Lovin, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (official video)” by Journey (with 19941 votes)
#19 “Jane” by Starship (with 18789 votes)
#20 “One Way or Another” by Blondie (with 16505 votes)
#21 “Tragedy” by the Bee Gees (with 14444 votes)
#22 “Hell Bent for Leather (live)” by Judas Priest (with 12566 votes)
#23 “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer (with 10344 votes)
