These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1979.
| Issue Date | Song | Artist(s) | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | "Too Much Heaven" | Bee Gees | |
| January 13 | |||
| January 20 | "Le Freak" | Chic | |
| January 27 | |||
| February 3 | |||
| February 10 | "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | Rod Stewart | |
| February 17 | |||
| February 24 | |||
| March 3 | |||
| March 10 | "I Will Survive" | Gloria Gaynor | |
| March 17 | |||
| March 24 | "Tragedy" | Bee Gees | |
| March 31 | |||
| April 7 | "I Will Survive" | Gloria Gaynor | |
| April 14 | "What a Fool Believes" | The Doobie Brothers | |
| April 21 | "Knock on Wood" | Amii Stewart | |
| April 28 | "Heart of Glass" | Blondie | |
| May 5 | "Reunited" | Peaches & Herb | |
| May 12 | |||
| May 19 | |||
| May 26 | |||
| June 2 | "Hot Stuff" | Donna Summer | |
| June 9 | "Love You Inside Out" | Bee Gees | |
| June 16 | "Hot Stuff" | Donna Summer | |
| June 23 | |||
| June 30 | "Ring My Bell" | Anita Ward | |
| July 7 | |||
| July 14 | "Bad Girls" | Donna Summer | |
| July 21 | |||
| July 28 | |||
| August 4 | |||
| August 11 | |||
| August 18 | "Good Times" | Chic | |
| August 25 | "My Sharona" | The Knack | |
| September 1 | |||
| September 8 | |||
| September 15 | |||
| September 22 | |||
| September 29 | |||
| October 6 | "Sad Eyes" | Robert John | |
| October 13 | "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" | Michael Jackson | |
| October 20 | "Rise" | Herb Alpert | |
| October 27 | |||
| November 3 | "Pop Muzik" | M | |
| November 10 | "Heartache Tonight" | Eagles | |
| November 17 | "Still" | Commodores | |
| November 24 | "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" | Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer | |
| December 1 | |||
| December 8 | "Babe" | Styx | |
| December 15 | |||
| December 22 | "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" | Rupert Holmes | |
| December 29 |
Famous quotes containing the words list, hot, number-one:
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Did you know, Putnam, that more murders are committed at 92 Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easygoing. Over 92, it’s too hot to move. But just 92, people get irritable.”
—Harry Essex (b. 1910)
“I’m your number-one fan.”
—William Goldman (b. 1931)