Editing 1979 in music (section)

==Notable singles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Song title 
! Artist(s) 
! Release date(s) 
! Other Chart Performance(s)
|-
|"[[Bela Lugosi's Dead]]" || [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]] || {{Date table sorting|081979}}|August 1979 || n/a
|-
|"[[Boys Don't Cry (The Cure song)|Boys Don't Cry]]" || [[The Cure]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|July 1979 || 99 (Australia)
|-
|"[[California über alles]]" || [[Dead Kennedys]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 4 (UK Indie Chart)
|-
|"[[Death Disco]]" || [[Public Image Ltd]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 20 (UK Singles Chart)
|-
|"[[Jumping Someone Else's Train]]" || [[The Cure]] || {{Date table sorting|111979}}|November 1979 || n/a
|-
|"[[Life During Wartime (song)|Life During Wartime]]" || [[Talking Heads]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 80 (US Billboard Hot 100)
|-
|"[[Mittageisen]]" || [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 47 (UK Singles Chart)
|-
|"[[Playground Twist]]" || [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 28 (UK Singles Chart)
|-
|"[[Rapper's Delight]]" || [[The Sugarhill Gang]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || (#36 US: first rap song to hit Billboard's Top 40)
|-
|"[[Shivers (The Boys Next Door song)|Shivers]]" || [[The Birthday Party (band)|The Boys Next Door]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || n/a
|-
|"[[The Staircase (Mystery)]]" || [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || 24 (UK Singles Chart)
|-
|"[[They Don't Know (Kirsty MacColl song)|They Don't Know]]" || [[Kirsty MacColl]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || n/a
|-
|"[[Transmission (song)|Transmission]]" || [[Joy Division]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || n/a
|-
|"Typical Girls" / "[[I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]" || [[The Slits]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 60 (UK singles Chart)  
|}

===Other Notable singles===
{{columns-list|

* "Baby Doll" - [[Teenage Jesus and the Jerks]]
* "Fa Cé La" - [[The Feelies]]
* "Gidget Goes to Hell" - [[Suburban Lawns]]
* "Orphans" - [[Teenage Jesus and the Jerks]]
* "[[Rowche Rumble]]" - [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]]
* "Run by Night" - [[Midnight Oil]]
}}