Editing 1979 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.

==Specific locations==
*[[1979 in British music]]
*[[1979 in Japanese music]]
*[[1979 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1979 in country music]]
*[[1979 in heavy metal music]]
*[[1979 in hip hop music]]
*[[1979 in jazz]]

==Events==

===January–February===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]] closes San Francisco's [[Winterland Ballroom]] following a New Year's Eve performance by [[the Blues Brothers]] and the [[Grateful Dead]].
** During a New Year's Eve concert in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], [[Bruce Springsteen]] is injured when a firecracker is thrown onstage from the audience.
* [[January 4]] – The [[Star-Club]] in [[Hamburg]], Germany, known for its connections to the early days of [[the Beatles]], reopened.
* [[January 6]] – ABC's ''[[American Bandstand]]'' featured the debut of the "[[Y.M.C.A. (song)|Y.M.C.A. dance]]" using the hand gestures forming the letters YMCA during a broadcast with the [[Village People]].
* [[January 9]] – The [[Music for UNICEF Concert]] in held in New York City at the [[United Nations]], starring the [[Bee Gees]]. Highlights are aired the following evening on NBC.
* [[January 13]] – Singer [[Donny Hathaway]] dies after falling 15 stories from his hotel room in New York City. According to Hathaway's record company, [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], the singer had been having some psychological problems.
* [[January 15]] – [[MCA Records]] purchases [[ABC Records]] for a reported $20 million.
* [[February 2]] – [[Sex Pistols]] [[bassist]] [[Sid Vicious]] is found dead from an [[overdose]], a day after being released on bail from [[Rikers Island]] prison.
* [[February 7]]
** [[The Clash]] kicked off their first concert of their first American tour at the Berkeley Community Theatre outside [[San Francisco]]. [[Bo Diddley]] opened the show.
** [[Stephen Stills]] becomes the first major rock artist to record digitally, laying down four songs at [[The Record Plant]] in Los Angeles. None of the songs are released, and [[Ry Cooder]] becomes the first major rock artist to release a digitally recorded record.
* [[February 10]] – [[Rod Stewart]]'s "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" hit No. 1 on the [[Billboard magazine]] charts, and stayed there for 4 weeks.
* [[February 11]] – 43 million viewers watch "[[Elvis (1979 film)|Elvis!]]" on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], a made-for-TV movie starring [[Kurt Russell]] as Elvis.
* [[February 14]] – Following her 1972 [[sex reassignment surgery]], musician [[Wendy Carlos]] legally changes her name from Walter. She reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine.
* [[February 15]]
** [[Minnie Riperton]] appears on the Grammys as a presenter with [[Stephen Bishop (musician)|Stephen Bishop]]. 
** The [[21st Annual Grammy Awards]] are presented in [[Los Angeles]], hosted by [[John Denver]]. The [[Bee Gees]] collect 4 Grammys for the ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' [[Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)|soundtrack]], including [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], while [[Billy Joel]]'s "[[Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)|Just the Way You Are]]" wins both [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]. [[A Taste of Honey (band)|A Taste of Honey]] win [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]].
* [[February 23]] – [[Dire Straits]] begin their first U.S. tour in Boston.
* [[February 24]]
** [[Friedrich Cerha]]'s completion of [[Alban Berg]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Lulu (opera)|Lulu]]'' is premiered at the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]] in Paris.
** Singer [[Johnnie Wilder, Jr.]] of [[Heatwave (band)|Heatwave]] is paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
* [[February 26]] – [[B.B. King]] becomes the first blues artist to tour the Soviet Union, kicking off a one-month tour there.

===March–April===
* [[March 2]]–4 – [[Weather Report]], The CBS Jazz All-Stars, the [[Trio of Doom]], [[Fania All-Stars]], [[Stephen Stills]], [[Billy Swan]], [[Bonnie Bramlett]], Mike Finnegan, [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Rita Coolidge]] and [[Billy Joel]], plus Cuban acts [[Irakere]], [[Pacho Alonso]], [[Elena Burke]], Los Papines, [[Tata Güines]] and [[Orquesta Aragón]] play at the historic three-day [[Havana Jam]] festival at the [[Karl Marx Theater]], in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
* [[March 5]] – [[MCA Records]] dissolves [[ABC Records]].
* [[March 10]] – [[James Brown]] performs at the [[Grand Ole Opry]].
* [[March 15]] – [[Elvis Costello]] gets into a heated argument with members of [[Stephen Stills]]' touring entourage at a [[Holiday Inn]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]], United States. After Costello makes disparaging and racist remarks, he is punched by [[Bonnie Bramlett]]. Costello suffers a wave of negative press coverage after the incident is made public.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wawzenek|first=Bryan|title=That Time Elvis Costello Incited a Brawl With Racist Remarks|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/elvis-costello-racist-remarks/|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – 
**[[Eric Clapton]] marries [[Patti Boyd]], ex-wife of Clapton's friend [[George Harrison]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Doggett|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Doggett|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2009|isbn=978-0-06-177418-8|page=261}}</ref>
**[[Simple Minds]] make their first television appearance, performing the songs "Chelsea Girl" and "Life in a Day" on BBC's ''[[The Old Grey Whistle Test]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/simple-minds/1979/the-old-grey-whistle-test-bbc-television-theatre-london-england-63c4beef.html |title=Simple Minds setlist at The Old Grey Whistle Test |publisher=setlist.fm }}</ref>
* [[March 31]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1979|Eurovision Song Contest]], the biggest music festival in the world, takes place for the first time in a country outside Europe – [[Israel]]. The show is broadcast live from [[Jerusalem]] to Europe and a few countries in Asia. The big winner of this night is [[Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest|Israel]] for the second time in a row. The winning song is "[[Hallelujah (Milk and Honey song)|Hallelujah]]" sung by the group [[Milk and Honey (Israeli group)|Milk and Honey]], including [[Gali Atari]]. A few months after winning the song had been translated into more than 82 languages, and broke a new record by entering the Guinness Book of Records as the most translated song in the world.
* [[April 2]] – [[Kate Bush]] begins [[The Tour of Life|her first, and for 35 years, only tour.]] She becomes the first artist to use a [[wireless microphone]], enabling her to sing and dance at the same time.
* [[April 6]] – [[Rod Stewart]] marries [[Alana Stewart|Alana Hamilton]].
* [[April 7]] – 110,000 people attend the California Music Festival at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. Performers include [[Aerosmith]], [[The Boomtown Rats]], [[Cheap Trick]], [[Ted Nugent]] and [[Van Halen]].
* [[April 12]] – [[Mickey Thomas (singer)|Mickey Thomas]] replaces [[Marty Balin]] as the lead singer of [[Jefferson Starship]].
* [[April 13]] – During a concert by [[Van Halen]] in [[Spokane, Washington]], [[David Lee Roth]] collapses from exhaustion. A local doctor treats him for a stomach virus and advises him to "calm down".
* [[April 22]] – [[The New Barbarians]] and [[The Rolling Stones]] perform two concerts in [[Oshawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada, to benefit the [[CNIB]], as part of [[Keith Richards]]' 1978 sentence for heroin possession.
* [[April 27]] – [[Ozzy Osbourne]] is fired as lead singer of [[Black Sabbath]]. He is replaced in May by [[Ronnie James Dio]].

===May–August===
* [[May 1]] – [[Elton John]] becomes one of the first Western pop musicians to perform in Israel.
* [[May 2]] – [[The Who]] play their first concert following the death of drummer [[Keith Moon]]. The band performs with new drummer [[Kenney Jones]] at London's [[Rainbow Theatre]].
* [[May 4]] – Release as a single of [[Gary Numan]]'s "[[Are "Friends" Electric?]]" with [[Tubeway Army]]; it becomes the first [[synth-pop]] single to reach number one in the [[UK Singles Chart]].
* [[May 8]] – [[Iron Maiden]], [[Samson (band)|Samson]], and [[Angel Witch]] share a bill at the [[KOKO (music venue)|Music Machine]] in [[London Borough of Camden|Camden, London]]. Critic [[Geoff Barton]] coins the term "[[New Wave of British Heavy Metal]]" in a review of the show for ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=If You Want Blood (and Flashbombs and Dry Ice and Confetti) You Got It |journal=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] |date=19 May 1979 |last=Barton |first=Geoff |author-link=Geoff Barton |pages=28–29 }}</ref>
* [[May 12]] – [[Disco]] music occupies eight of the top ten spots of the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart, for two weeks. The charts are led by [[Peaches and Herb]]'s R&B ballad single "[[Reunited (song)|Reunited]]".
* [[May 14]] – [[Kate Bush]] plays the final date at the [[Hammersmith Odeon]] on her first-ever tour, which also turned out to be her last tour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/13/kate-bush-only-tour-live |title=Kate Bush's only tour: pop concert or disappearing act? |work=The Guardian |date=13 May 2010}}</ref> 
* [[May 19]] – Three of the four ex-[[The Beatles|Beatles]] perform on the same stage, as [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]] and [[Ringo Starr]] jam with [[Eric Clapton]], [[Ginger Baker]], [[Mick Jagger]] and others at a wedding reception for Clapton at his [[Surrey]] home.
* [[May 21]] – [[Elton John]] plays the first of eight concerts in the Soviet Union, making him the first western solo pop artist to tour there.
* [[June 1]] – The [[Alternative Tentacles]] record label is established by [[Dead Kennedys]] frontman [[Jello Biafra]].
* [[June 8]] – [[Marianne Faithfull]] marries Ben Brierly of [[The Vibrators]].
* [[June 9]] – The [[Bee Gees]] equal [[Bing Crosby]], [[Elvis Presley]], and The [[Beatles]], with a record six consecutive number-one singles in the U.S. in less than a single calendar year with "[[Love You Inside Out]]".
* [[June 16]] – [[Donna Summer]] becomes the first female to have the #1 single "[[Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)|Hot Stuff]]" and album ''[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer album)|Bad Girls]]'' for a second time.
* [[June 28]] – [[Bill Haley (musician)|Bill Haley]] makes his final studio recordings at [[Muscle Shoals, Alabama]].
* [[June 30]] 
**[[Donna Summer]] becomes the first female artist to have 2 of the top 3 songs, [[Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)|Hot Stuff]] at #1 & [[Bad Girls (Donna Summer song)|Bad Girls]] at #3, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They will stay in the top 3 together for 4 weeks. In fact, all of the top 5 songs that week are entirely by women, both in Billboard and in Cashbox.
**[[Tubeway Army]] reach number 1 on the UK Singles Chart with "[[Are 'Friends' Electric?]]" and become the first British act to have a [[synth pop]] hit single. The song will remain at number 1 for four consecutive weeks.<ref name="Tubeway Army">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17680/tubeway-army/ |title=Tubeway Army |publisher=Official Charts }}</ref>
* July
** [[EMI]]'s first non-classical [[digital recording]], of UK jazz-funk duo [[Morrissey–Mullen]] covering the [[Rose Royce]] hit "[[Love Don't Live Here Anymore]]", is recorded at [[Abbey Road Studios]] and later released as a limited edition vinyl [[Extended play|EP]].
** [[George Martin]]'s [[Associated Independent Recording]] opens its [[AIR Montserrat]] [[recording studio]] on the Caribbean island of [[Montserrat]]; the first album recorded here is [[Climax Blues Band]]'s ''Real to Reel''.<ref>{{cite web|title=AIR Studio Ruins|website=[[Atlas Obscura]]|date=2018-06-06|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/air-studio-ruins|access-date=2023-10-13}}</ref>
* [[July 1]] – The [[Walkman|Sony Walkman]] goes on sale in Japan.
* [[July 7]] – The Bee Gees play to a sold-out crowd at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium as part of their ''[[1979 Spirits Having Flown Tour|Spirits Having Flown]]'' tour.
* [[July 10]] – [[Chuck Berry]] is sentenced to four months in prison for [[Tax avoidance and tax evasion#Tax evasion|tax evasion]] by a Los Angeles judge.
* [[July 12]] – "[[Disco Demolition Night]]", an anti-disco promotional event held by a Chicago rock station at Comiskey Park involving exploding disco records with a bomb, causes a near-riot between games during a baseball major league doubleheader, forcing the cancellation of the second game.
* [[July 14]] – [[Donna Summer]], for a third time in an eight-month period, scores a #1 single with "[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer song)|Bad Girls]]", (staying atop the charts for five weeks); and #1 album of the same name, which also tops the Billboard 200 for six weeks.
* [[July 21]] 
**With ''[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer album)|Bad Girls]]'' (both single and album), Donna Summer's success continues as she becomes the first female artist to sit on top of 3 major Billboard charts: the Billboard Hot 100, the Hot Soul Singles chart, and the Billboard 200. Disco dominates the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, with the first six spots (beginning with Donna Summer's  "Bad Girls"), and seven of the chart's top ten songs ending that week.
**[[Tubeway Army]] reach number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with "[[Replicas (album)|Replicas]]".<ref name="Tubeway Army" />
* [[July 28]] – [[Aerosmith]] and [[Ted Nugent]] headline the [[World Series of Rock]] at [[Cleveland Stadium|Municipal Stadium]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. Also on the bill are [[Journey (band)|Journey]], [[Thin Lizzy]], [[AC/DC]] and the [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]]. Following the concert, Aerosmith guitarist [[Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry]] quits the group after an argument with bandmates.
* [[July 31]] – 250,000 turn out in [[Central Park]] for a free concert by [[James Taylor]] in a campaign to restore [[Sheep Meadow, Central Park|Sheep Meadow]].
* August – [[Elton John]] and lyricist [[Bernie Taupin]], having reunited after a three-year break, eventually record their first compositions since then, to be released a year later as ''[[21 at 33]]''.
* [[August 6]] - [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]] releases debut single "[[Bela Lugosi's Dead]]", considered to be the first [[Gothic Rock]] release.
* [[August 18]] – [[Nick Lowe]] and [[Carlene Carter]] are married at Carter's Los Angeles home.
* [[August 24]] – [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s first hit single "[[I Wanna Be Your Lover]]" is released in the US, reaching number one on the RnB and number 11 on the Hot 100, selling more than one million copies in the US.
* [[August 25]] – "[[My Sharona]]" by [[The Knack]] hits #1 on the Billboard charts.  This is the first time in over a year that a song hits #1 that is not either a disco song or a ballad, signalling the potential resurgence of rock.

===September–December===
* [[September 1]] – [[INXS]] perform in public for the first time, at the Oceanview Hotel in Umina, New South Wales.
* [[September 2]] – [[U2]] enters the studio for the first time to record a locally released single.
* [[September 13]] – [[ABBA]] begins [[ABBA: The Tour]] in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]], leading off a month of dates in North America.
* [[September 16]] – [[The Sugarhill Gang]] release ''[[Rapper's Delight]]'' in the United States, the first [[rap]] [[Single (music)|single]] to become a [[Top 40]] hit on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].
* [[September 17]] – [[Court of Appeal for Ontario|Ontario Court of Appeals]] rejects a government appeal against the previous year's sentencing of [[Keith Richards]], which allowed him to avoid jail time for his 1977 arrest in Toronto for heroin possession.
* [[September 19]]–23 – [[Musicians United for Safe Energy]] (MUSE) stages a series of five ''No Nukes'' concerts at [[Madison Square Garden]]. [[Jackson Browne]], [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]], [[Bruce Springsteen|Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band]], [[Bonnie Raitt]], [[Tom Petty]], [[James Taylor]] and [[Carly Simon]] are among the participants.
* [[September 22]]
**[[Gary Numan]] hits number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with ''[[The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album)|The Pleasure Principle]]'', only two months after his [[Tubeway Army]] album ''[[Replicas (album)|Replicas]]'' had topped the chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17942/gary-numan/ |title=Gary Numan |publisher=Official Charts}}</ref>
**''[[The NewMusic]]'', a Canadian weekly music and culture program, makes its début on [[Citytv]].
* [[September 27]] – [[Elton John]] collapses on stage at the [[Universal Amphitheatre]] in [[Los Angeles County, California]] while performing "Better Off Dead". He refuses to stop the show and resumes playing fifteen minutes later.
* [[October 10]] – [[Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry]] officially leaves [[Aerosmith]].
* [[November 3]] – [[Donna Summer]] becomes the first female artist to have 5 top 10 hits in the same year.
* [[November 16]] – [[Infinity Records]] is shut down and absorbed into parent company [[MCA Records|MCA]].
* [[November 17]] – [[Donna Summer]], for a second time, has two songs ("[[Dim All the Lights]]", #2, & "[[No More Tears (Enough is Enough)]]" with [[Barbra Streisand]], #3) in the Top 3 of the Billboard Hot 100, and the first female to have 5 top 5 hits in the same year.
* [[November 24]] – With "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" hitting the top spot, [[Donna Summer]] becomes the first female artist to score 3 #1 singles in a calendar year on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
* [[November 26]] – [[Bill Haley & His Comets]] perform at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], London, in a [[Royal Command Performance|command performance]] for Queen [[Elizabeth II]]. This was Haley's final recorded performance of "[[Rock Around the Clock]]".
* [[November 30]] – [[Pink Floyd]] releases ''[[The Wall]]''. It is one of rock's most well-known [[concept album]]s and one of the [[List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums of all time]]. It is also the last album recorded with the line up of [[David Gilmour]], [[Roger Waters]], [[Nick Mason]] and [[Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright]].
* December – [[Iron Maiden]] is signed by [[EMI]]. They hire [[Dennis Stratton]] as a second guitarist.
* [[December 3]] – In [[Cincinnati]], a stampede for seats at [[Riverfront Coliseum]] during a [[The Who|Who]] concert kills 11 fans and injures 26 others.  Band members were not informed of the deaths until after the show.
* [[December 26]] – [[Iron Maiden]] drummer [[Doug Sampson]] is replaced by ex-[[Samson (band)|Samson]] drummer [[Clive Burr]].
* [[December 26]]-29 – The [[Concerts for the People of Kampuchea]] are held over four nights at the [[Hammersmith Odeon]] in London to raise funds for victims of war in [[Cambodia]]. [[Queen (band)|Queen]], [[The Who]], [[The Clash]], [[Wings (band)|Wings]], [[Elvis Costello]] and members of [[Led Zeppelin]] all take part.
* [[December 31]] – The eighth annual [[Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest|New Year's Rockin' Eve]] special airs on ABC, with appearances by [[The Oak Ridge Boys]], [[Village People]], [[Chic (band)|Chic]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] and [[Barry Manilow]].

===Also in 1979===
* The Welsh Philharmonia becomes the Orchestra of [[Welsh National Opera]].
* [[Michael Schenker]] leaves [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] during their tour in France and is replaced by [[Matthias Jabs]].
* [[Stevie Wonder]] uses [[digital audio]] recording technology in recording his album ''[[Journey through the Secret Life of Plants]]''.
* Disco reigns supreme this year, with several number-one hits from The [[Bee Gees]] and [[Donna Summer]]. Several artists who were not regarded as disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco-oriented singles or albums, including [[New wave music|new wave]] band [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] with their first US number-one single "Heart of Glass", [[Rod Stewart]] with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?", and symphonic rock band [[Electric Light Orchestra]] with their UK No. 1 LP ''[[Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Discovery]]''.

==Bands formed==
''See [[:Category:Musical groups established in 1979|Musical groups established in 1979]]''

==Bands disbanded==
''See [[:Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1979|Musical groups disestablished in 1979]]''

==Bands reformed==
[[The Chipmunks]]

==Albums released==

===January===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |5
| ''[[Armed Forces (album)|Armed Forces]]'' || [[Elvis Costello|Elvis Costello & The Attractions]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |15
| ''[[Lovedrive]]'' || [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |16
| ''[[Accept (Accept album)|Accept]]'' || [[Accept (band)|Accept]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |19
| ''[[Sleep Dirt]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |22
| ''[[We Are Family (album)|We Are Family]]'' || [[Sister Sledge]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |25
| ''[[Take Me Home (Cher album)|Take Me Home]]'' || [[Cher]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |26
| ''[[Bustin' Out of L Seven]]'' || [[Rick James]] ||
|-
| ''[[Valley of the Dolls (album)|Valley of the Dolls]]'' || [[Generation X (band)|Generation X]] ||
|-
| rowspan="12" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Strangers in the Night (UFO album)|Strangers in the Night]]'' || [[UFO (band)|UFO]] || Live
|-
| ''[[The Def Leppard E.P.]]'' || [[Def Leppard]] || Debut EP
|-
| ''[[Nervous Breakdown (EP)|Nervous Breakdown]]'' || [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]] || Debut EP
|-
| ''[[Sinful (album)|Sinful]]'' || [[Angel (American band)|Angel]] ||
|-
| ''[[Head First (The Babys album)|Head First]]'' || [[The Babys]] ||
|-
| ''[[Look Sharp! (Joe Jackson album)|Look Sharp!]]'' || [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] ||<ref name="The Great Rock Discography">{{cite book
| first= Martin C.
| last= Strong
| year= 2000
| title= The Great Rock Discography
| edition= 5th
| publisher= Mojo Books 
| location= Edinburgh
| pages= 485–486
| isbn= 1-84195-017-3}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[John Denver (album)|John Denver]]'' || [[John Denver]] ||
|-
| ''[[Life for the Taking]]'' || [[Eddie Money]] ||
|-
| ''[[Living Without Your Love]]'' || [[Dusty Springfield]] ||
|-
| ''[[Madam Butterfly (album)|Madam Butterfly]]'' || [[Tavares (band)|Tavares]] ||
|-
| ''[[New Kind of Feeling]]'' || [[Anne Murray]] ||
|-
| ''[[No Mean City (album)|No Mean City]]'' || [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] ||
|-
|}

===February===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |2
| ''[[Inflammable Material]]'' || [[Stiff Little Fingers]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |5
| ''[[Spirits Having Flown]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |19
| ''[[Frenzy (Split Enz album)|Frenzy]]'' || [[Split Enz]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |20
| ''[[George Harrison (album)|George Harrison]]'' || [[George Harrison]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Live (X Cert)]]'' || [[The Stranglers]] || Live<ref name=twomey>{{cite book |last1=Twomey |first1=Chris |title=The Stranglers - The Men They Love To Hate |date=1992 |publisher=EMI Records Ltd|page=76}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Scared to Dance]]'' || [[The Skids]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |26
| ''[[The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (album)|The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle]]'' || [[Sex Pistols]] || Soundtrack
|-
| valign="top" |28
| ''[[Rickie Lee Jones (album)|Rickie Lee Jones]]'' || [[Rickie Lee Jones]] ||
|-
| rowspan="8" valign="top" |N/A
| ''[[Feets, Don't Fail Me Now]]'' || [[Herbie Hancock]] ||
|-
| ''[[Breakfast at Sweethearts]]'' || [[Cold Chisel]] ||
|-
| ''[[Don't Throw Stones]]'' || [[The Sports]] ||
|-
| ''[[Enlightened Rogues]]'' || [[The Allman Brothers Band]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Feeding of the 5000 (album)|The Feeding of the 5000]]'' || [[Crass]] ||
|-
| ''[[Force Majeure (Tangerine Dream album)|Force Majeure]]'' || [[Tangerine Dream]] ||
|-
| ''[[Hard Times for Lovers]]'' || [[Judy Collins]] ||
|-
| ''[[Under Heaven Over Hell]]'' || [[Streetheart (band)|Streetheart]] ||
|-
|}

===March===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |1
| ''[[No. 1 in Heaven]]'' || [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |2
| ''[[It's Alright with Me]]'' || [[Patti LaBelle]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |5
| ''[[A Million Vacations]]'' || [[Max Webster]] ||
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |9
| ''[[Angel Station]]'' || [[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] ||
|-
| ''[[Even Serpents Shine]]'' || [[The Only Ones]] ||
|-
| ''[[Thriller (Eddie and the Hot Rods album)|Thriller]]'' || [[Eddie and the Hot Rods]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Fate for Breakfast]]'' || [[Art Garfunkel]] ||
|-
| ''[[Half Machine Lip Moves]]'' || [[Chrome (band)|Chrome]] ||
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Breakfast in America]]'' || [[Supertramp]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/1067-13-2|title=BPI certification}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Manifesto (Roxy Music album)|Manifesto]]'' || [[Roxy Music]] ||
|-
| ''[[Bitanga i princeza]]'' || [[Bijelo dugme]] ||
|-
| ''[[Live at the Witch Trials]]'' || [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |19
| ''[[L.A. (Light Album)|L.A.]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |20
| ''[[Evolution (Journey album)|Evolution]]'' || [[Journey (band)|Journey]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Journey&ti=Evolution&lab=&genre=&format=Album&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section|title=RIAA certifications}}</ref>
|-
| valign="top" |23
| ''[[Van Halen II]]'' || [[Van Halen]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |26
| ''[[Go West (Village People album)|Go West]]'' || [[Village People]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |27
| ''[[You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic]]'' || [[Ian Hunter (singer)|Ian Hunter]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |30
| ''[[Just a Game (album)|Just a Game]]'' || [[Triumph (band)|Triumph]] ||
|-
| ''[[Secondhand Daylight]]'' || [[Magazine (band)|Magazine]] ||
|-
| rowspan="10" valign="top" |N/A
| ''[[Overkill (Motörhead album)|Overkill]]'' || [[Motörhead]] ||
|-
| ''[[Desolation Angels (album)|Desolation Angels]]'' || [[Bad Company (band)|Bad Company]] ||
|-
| ''[[Sheik Yerbouti]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||
|-
| ''[[Airwaves (Badfinger album)|Airwaves]]'' || [[Badfinger]] ||
|-
| ''[[Danger Money]]'' || [[U.K. (band)|U.K.]] ||
|-
| ''Feel No Fret'' || [[Average White Band]] ||
|-
| ''I Love You So'' || [[Natalie Cole]] ||
|-
| ''[[Remote Control (The Tubes album)|Remote Control]]'' || [[The Tubes]] ||
|-
| ''[[Rock n' Roll Nights]]'' || [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] ||
|-
| ''[[Squeezing Out Sparks]]'' || [[Graham Parker]] and [[The Rumour]] ||
|-
|}

===April===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |6
| ''[[Replicas (album)|Replicas]]'' || [[Tubeway Army]] ||
|-
| ''[[Cool for Cats (album)|Cool for Cats]]'' || [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]] ||
|-
| ''[[Euroman Cometh]]'' || [[Jean-Jacques Burnel]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |10
| ''[[I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing]]'' || [[Barry White]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |13
| ''[[Black Rose: A Rock Legend]]'' || [[Thin Lizzy]] ||
|-
| rowspan="5" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Life in a Day (album)|Life in a Day]]'' || [[Simple Minds]] ||<ref name=release>{{cite magazine|date=14 April 1979|title=News / Singles|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-04-14.pdf|magazine=[[Music Week]]|pages=4, 48|access-date=19 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Gimme Some Neck]]'' || [[Ron Wood]] ||
|-
| ''[[Million Mile Reflections]]'' || [[Charlie Daniels|The Charlie Daniels Band]] ||
|-
| ''[[My Father's Eyes (album)|My Father's Eyes]]'' || [[Amy Grant]] ||
|-
| ''[[Y (album)|Y]]'' || [[The Pop Group]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Bob Dylan at Budokan]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Voulez-Vous]]'' || [[ABBA]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |25
| ''[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer album)|Bad Girls]]'' || [[Donna Summer]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |27
| ''[[New Values]]'' || [[Iggy Pop]] ||UK
|-
| rowspan="8" valign="top" |N/A
| ''[[Exposure (Robert Fripp album)|Exposure]]'' || [[Robert Fripp]] ||Solo Debut
|-
| ''[[Blue Kentucky Girl (Emmylou Harris album)|Blue Kentucky Girl]]'' || [[Emmylou Harris]] ||
|-
| ''[[It's Alive (Ramones album)|It's Alive]]'' || [[Ramones]] || Live
|-
| ''Mission Accomplished But the Beat Goes On'' || [[The Rezillos]] || Live
|-
| ''[[New Chautauqua]]'' || [[Pat Metheny]] ||
|-
| ''New England'' || [[New England (band)|New England]] ||
|-
| ''[[Strikes (album)|Strikes]]'' || [[Blackfoot (band)|Blackfoot]] ||
|-
|}

===May===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |4
| ''[[Orchestral Favorites]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |11
| ''[[Three Imaginary Boys]]'' || [[The Cure]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |17
| ''[[Wave (Patti Smith Group album)|Wave]]'' || [[Patti Smith|Patti Smith Group]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |18
| ''[[Do It Yourself (Ian Dury & the Blockheads album)|Do It Yourself]]'' || [[Ian Dury|Ian Dury & The Blockheads]] ||
|-
| ''[[Shades in Bed]]'' || [[The Records]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |22
| ''[[Where There's Smoke...]]'' || [[Smokey Robinson]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |23
| ''[[The Boss (Diana Ross album)|The Boss]]'' || [[Diana Ross]] ||
|-
| ''[[Dynasty (Kiss album)|Dynasty]]'' || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |24
| ''[[Great Balls of Fire (Dolly Parton album)|Great Balls of Fire]]'' || [[Dolly Parton]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |25
| ''[[Lodger (album)|Lodger]]'' || [[David Bowie]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |30
| ''[[Where I Should Be]]'' || [[Peter Frampton]] ||
|-
| rowspan="17" valign="top" |N/A
| ''[[Saxon (album)|Saxon]]'' || [[Saxon (band)|Saxon]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[The Bells (Lou Reed album)|The Bells]]'' || [[Lou Reed]] ||
|-
| ''[[Monolith (Kansas album)|Monolith]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] ||
|-
| ''[[Rhapsodies (album)|Rhapsodies]]'' || [[Rick Wakeman]] ||
|-
| ''[[Spectral Mornings]]'' || [[Steve Hackett]] ||
|-
| ''[[State of Shock (Ted Nugent album)|State of Shock]]'' || [[Ted Nugent]] ||
|-
| ''[[Night Owl (album)|Night Owl]]'' || [[Gerry Rafferty]] ||
|-
| ''[[Narita (album)|Narita]]'' || [[Riot (band)|Riot]] || Japan
|-
| ''[[Rock 'n' Roll High School]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Images at Twilight]]'' || [[Saga (band)|Saga]] ||
|-
| ''[[Flag (James Taylor album)|Flag]]'' || [[James Taylor]] ||
|-
| ''[[In the Skies]]'' || [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Undertones (album)|The Undertones]]'' || [[The Undertones]] ||
|-
| ''[[Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma]]'' || [[Michael Nesmith]] ||
|-
| ''[[Let Me Be Good to You]]'' || [[Lou Rawls]] ||
|-
| ''[[Shot Through the Heart (album)|Shot Through the Heart]]'' || [[Jennifer Warnes]] ||
|-
|}

===June===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Discovery]]'' || [[Electric Light Orchestra]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/|title=BPI certifications for ELO}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N]]'' || [[Bootsy's Rubber Band]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |5
| ''[[I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album)|I Am]]'' || [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/3062-2049-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Best of The J. Geils Band]]'' || [[The J. Geils Band]] ||
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |8
| ''[[Back to the Egg]]'' || [[Wings (band)|Wings]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Kids Are Alright (soundtrack)|The Kids Are Alright]]'' || [[The Who]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Labour of Lust]]'' || [[Nick Lowe]] ||
|-
| ''[[Repeat When Necessary]]'' || [[Dave Edmunds]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |11
| ''[[Get the Knack]]'' || [[The Knack]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |13
| ''[[Candy-O]]'' || [[The Cars]] ||
|-
| ''[[Mingus (Joni Mitchell album)|Mingus]]'' || [[Joni Mitchell]] ||
|-
| rowspan="5" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Unknown Pleasures]]'' || [[Joy Division]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Communiqué (Dire Straits album)|Communiqué]]'' || [[Dire Straits]] ||
|-
| ''[[Secrets (Robert Palmer album)|Secrets]]'' || [[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]] ||
|-
| ''[[PXR5]]'' || [[Hawkwind]] ||
|-
| ''[[Silent Letter (album)|Silent Letter]]'' || [[America (band)|America]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |19
| ''[[Mirrors (Blue Öyster Cult album)|Mirrors]]'' || [[Blue Öyster Cult]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Live Killers]]'' || [[Queen (band)|Queen]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Mick Taylor (album)|Mick Taylor]]'' || [[Mick Taylor]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |25
| ''[[Secret Omen]]'' || [[Cameo (band)|Cameo]] ||
|-
| rowspan="10" valign="top" | N/A
| ''[[Survivors (Samson album)|Survivors]]'' || [[Samson (band)|Samson]]||Debut
|-
| ''[[Spy (Carly Simon album)|Spy]]'' || [[Carly Simon]] ||
|-
| ''Another Taste'' || [[A Taste of Honey (band)|A Taste of Honey]] ||
|-
| ''[[Armageddon (Prism album)|Armageddon]]'' || [[Prism (band)|Prism]] ||
|-
| ''[[Door, Door]]'' || [[The Birthday Party (band)|The Boys Next Door]] ||
|-
| ''Life and Love'' || [[Leon Russell]] ||
|-
| ''One for the Road'' || [[Willie Nelson]] and [[Leon Russell]] ||
|-
| ''[[No Exit (The Angels album)|No Exit]]'' || [[The Angels (Australian band)|The Angels]] ||
|-
| ''Si todo hiciera Crack'' || [[Crack (band)|Crack]] ||
|-
| ''[[Touch the Sky (Carole King album)|Touch the Sky]]'' || [[Carole King]] ||
|-
|}

===July===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |2
| ''[[Rust Never Sleeps]]'' || [[Neil Young]] [[Crazy Horse (band)|and Crazy Horse]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |6
| ''[[The B-52's (album)|The B-52's]]'' || [[The B-52's]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |10
| ''[[Low Budget (album)|Low Budget]]'' || [[The Kinks]] ||US
|-
| valign="top" |13
| ''[[Screaming Targets]]'' || [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |19
| ''The Records'' || [[The Records]] ||US Version of [[Shades in Bed]]
|-
| valign="top" |20
| ''[[Nine Lives (REO Speedwagon album)|Nine Lives]]'' || [[REO Speedwagon]] ||
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |27
| ''[[Highway to Hell]]'' || [[AC/DC]] ||
|-
| ''[[Exposed (Mike Oldfield album)|Exposed]]'' || [[Mike Oldfield]] || Live<ref>{{cite web |title=British album certifications - Mike Oldfield - Exposed |url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2170-2671-2 |website=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |access-date=8 July 2022}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[John Cougar (album)|John Cougar]]'' || [[John Cougar Mellencamp|John Cougar]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |30
| ''[[Risqué (album)|Risqué]]'' || [[Chic (band)|Chic]] ||
|-
| rowspan="12" valign="top" | N/A
| ''[[Bop till You Drop]]'' || [[Ry Cooder]] ||
|-
| ''[[Can (album)|Can]]'' || [[Can (band)|Can]] ||
|-
| ''Circles & Seasons'' || [[Pete Seeger]] ||
|-
| ''[[Duty Now for the Future]]'' || [[Devo]] ||
|-
| ''[[First Under the Wire]]'' || [[Little River Band]] ||
|-
| ''[[Fool Around]]'' || [[Rachel Sweet]] || US version
|-
| ''[[Gamma 1]]'' || [[Gamma (band)|Gamma]] ||
|-
| ''[[Honest Lullaby]]'' || [[Joan Baez]] ||
|-
| ''[[Midnight Magic (album)|Midnight Magic]]'' || [[Commodores]] ||
|-
| ''[[No Promises...No Debts]]'' || [[Golden Earring]] ||
|-
| ''The Original Disco Man'' || [[James Brown]] ||
|-
| ''[[Shake Hands with the Devil (album)|Shake Hands with the Devil]]'' || [[Kris Kristofferson]] ||
|-
|}

===August===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |1
| ''[[String of Hits]]'' || [[The Shadows]] ||
|-
| ''[[Volcano (Jimmy Buffett album)|Volcano]]'' || [[Jimmy Buffett]] ||
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |3
| ''[[Down to Earth (Rainbow album)|Down to Earth]]'' || [[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]] ||<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Deep Purple Family | edition = 2nd | publisher = Wymer Publishing | year = 2016 | pages = 259 | isbn = 978-1-908724-42-7}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Fear of Music]]'' || [[Talking Heads]] ||
|-
| ''[[Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols]]'' || [[Sex Pistols]] || Interview collage
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |10
| ''[[Ghostown (The Radiators album)|Ghostown]]'' || [[The Radiators from Space|The Radiators]] ||
|-
| ''[[Off the Wall]]'' || [[Michael Jackson]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |13
| ''[[Chicago 13]]'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] ||
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |17
| ''[[Drums and Wires]]'' || [[XTC]] ||
|-
|''[[Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection]]'' || [[Rose Royce]] ||
|-
| ''[[Slow Train Coming]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |22
| ''[[In Through the Out Door]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Led+Zeppelin&ti=In+Through+the+Out+Door&format=Album&type=#search_section|title=RIAA}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Rose (soundtrack)|The Rose]]'' || [[Bette Midler]] || Soundtrack to 1979 film
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |27
| ''[[In the Heat of the Night (Pat Benatar album)|In the Heat of the Night]]'' || [[Pat Benatar]]||
|-
| valign="top" |30
| ''[[Big Fun (Shalamar album)|Big Fun]]'' || [[Shalamar]] ||
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |N/A
| ''[[5 (JJ Cale album)|5]]'' || [[J.J. Cale]] ||
|-
| ''[[Born Again (Randy Newman album)|Born Again]]'' || [[Randy Newman]] ||
|-
| ''[[Children of the Sun (Billy Thorpe album)|Children of the Sun]]'' || [[Billy Thorpe]] ||
|-
| ''[[Into the Music]]'' || [[Van Morrison]] ||
|-
|}

===September===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |4
| ''[[Flying Colors (Trooper album)|Flying Colors]]'' || [[Trooper (band)|Trooper]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |6
| ''[[La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)|La Diva]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] ||
|-
| ''[[Ladies' Night (album)|Ladies' Night]]'' || [[Kool & the Gang]] ||
|-
| rowspan="5" valign="top" |7
| ''[[The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album)|The Pleasure Principle]]'' || [[Gary Numan]] ||Solo Debut
|-
| ''[[Night After Night (U.K. album)|Night After Night]]'' || [[U.K. (band)|U.K.]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Join Hands]]'' || [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] ||
|-
| ''[[Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile]]'' || [[Cliff Richard]] ||
|-
| ''[[Cut (The Slits album)|Cut]]'' || [[The Slits]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |11
| ''[[Head Games (album)|Head Games]]'' || [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]] ||
|-
| ''[[Kost u grlu]]'' || [[Riblja Čorba]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |14
| ''[[Stormwatch (album)|Stormwatch]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] ||
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[Joe's Garage Act I]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||
|-
| rowspan="8" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Unleashed in the East]]'' || [[Judas Priest]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Lovehunter]]'' || [[Whitesnake]]||
|-
| ''[[The Raven (The Stranglers album)|The Raven]]'' || [[The Stranglers]] ||
|-
| ''[[Boogie Motel]]'' || [[Foghat]] ||
|-
| ''[[A Different Kind of Tension]]'' || [[Buzzcocks]] ||
|-
| ''[[Dream Police]]'' || [[Cheap Trick]] ||
|-
| ''[[Here (Leo Sayer album)|Here]]'' || [[Leo Sayer]]||
|-
| ''[[Uncle Jam Wants You]]'' || [[Funkadelic]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |24
| ''[[The Long Run (Eagles album)|The Long Run]]'' || [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |26
| ''[[Three (U2 EP)|Three]]'' || [[U2]] || Debut/EP
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |25
| ''[[Entertainment!]]'' || [[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]] ||
|-
| ''[[One Voice (Barry Manilow album)|One Voice]]'' || [[Barry Manilow]] ||
|-
| ''[[Singles Going Steady]]'' || [[Buzzcocks]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Solid State Survivor]]'' || [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |27
| ''[[Recent Songs]]'' || [[Leonard Cohen]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |28
| ''[[Eat to the Beat]]'' || [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2002-804-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="17" valign="top" | N/A
| ''[[Top Priority]]'' || [[Rory Gallagher]] ||
|-
| ''[[Eve (The Alan Parsons Project album)|Eve]]'' || [[The Alan Parsons Project]] ||
|-
| ''[[Quadrophenia (soundtrack)|Quadrophenia]]'' || [[The Who]]|| Soundtrack<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/896/mode/|title=The Great Rock Discography|page=896}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[154 (album)|154]]'' || [[Wire (band)|Wire]] ||
|-
|''[[Night Rains]]''
|[[Janis Ian]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Glow (Bonnie Raitt album)|The Glow]]'' || [[Bonnie Raitt]] ||
|-
| ''[[Kenny (album)|Kenny]]'' || [[Kenny Rogers]] ||
|-
| ''[[Live and Sleazy]]'' || [[Village People]] || Double LP; one disc live, one disc studio
|-
| ''[[Marathon (Santana album)|Marathon]]'' || [[Santana (band)|Santana]] ||
|-
| ''[[New Picnic Time]]'' || [[Pere Ubu]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Oceans of Fantasy]]'' || [[Boney M.]] ||
|-
| ''[[Legends of the Lost and Found]]'' || [[Harry Chapin]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Out of a Dream (Reba McEntire album)|Out of a Dream]]'' || [[Reba McEntire]] ||
|-
| ''[[Power Play (Dragon album)|Power Play]]'' || [[Dragon (band)|Dragon]] ||
|-
| ''[[Satisfied (Rita Coolidge album)|Satisfied]]'' || [[Rita Coolidge]] ||
|-
| ''[[Street Machine (album)|Street Machine]]'' || [[Sammy Hagar]] ||
|-
| ''[[This Heat (album)|This Heat]]'' || [[This Heat]] ||
|-
|}

===October===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Return to Base]]'' || [[Slade]]||
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |2
| ''[[Survival (Bob Marley & The Wailers album)|Survival]]'' || [[Bob Marley & The Wailers]]||
|-
| rowspan="6" valign="top" |5
| ''[[Reggatta de Blanc]]'' || [[The Police]]||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/5423-2080-2|title=BPI}}</ref> 
|-
| ''[[The Fine Art of Surfacing]]'' || [[The Boomtown Rats]]||
|-
| ''[[I'm the Man (Joe Jackson album)|I'm the Man]]'' || [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]]||
|-
| ''[[A Curious Feeling]]'' || [[Tony Banks (musician)|Tony Banks]]||Solo Debut
|-
| ''[[Reproduction (album)|Reproduction]]'' || [[The Human League]]||Debut
|-
| ''[[Partners in Crime (album)|Partners in Crime]]'' || [[Rupert Holmes]]||
|-
| rowspan="7" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Tusk (album)|Tusk]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]]||US
|-
| ''[[Bomber (album)|Bomber]]'' || [[Motörhead]]||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/989-354-2|title=Bomber certification}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Mr. Universe (album)|Mr. Universe]]'' || [[Gillan (band)|Gillan]]||
|-
| ''[[Whatever You Want (album)|Whatever You Want]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]||
|-
| ''[[Victim of Love (Elton John album)|Victim of Love]]'' || [[Elton John]]||
|-
| ''[[Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Rod Stewart album)|Greatest Hits, Vol. 1]]'' || [[Rod Stewart]]|| Compilation
|-
| ''[[Days in Europa]]'' || [[The Skids]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |15
| ''[[On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II]]'' || [[Donna Summer]]|| Compilation
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Fire It Up (Rick James album)|Fire It Up]]'' || [[Rick James]]||
|-
| ''[[The Message Is Love]]'' || [[Barry White]] ||
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Prince (album)|Prince]]'' || [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]||
|-
| ''[[Damn the Torpedoes (album)|Damn the Torpedoes]]'' || [[Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers]]||
|-
| ''[[One Step Beyond...]]'' || [[Madness (band)|Madness]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Specials (album)|The Specials]]'' || [[The Specials]]||
|-
| valign="top" |22
| ''[[Prisoner (Cher album)|Prisoner]]'' || [[Cher]]||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |23
| ''[[You Know How to Love Me]]'' || [[Phyllis Hyman]]||
|-
| ''[[Mix-Up]]'' || [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]]||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |26
| ''[[Hydra (Toto album)|Hydra]]'' || [[Toto (band)|Toto]]||
|-
| ''[[Dragnet (album)|Dragnet]]'' || [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]]||
|-
| valign="top" |29
| ''[[Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (ABBA album)|Greatest Hits Volume 2]]'' || [[ABBA]]|| Compilation
|-
| valign="top" |30
| ''[[Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"]]'' || [[Stevie Wonder]]||
|-
| rowspan="16" valign="top" | N/A
| ''[[Cornerstone (Styx album)|Cornerstone]]'' || [[Styx (band)|Styx]]||
|-
| ''[[Bee Gees Greatest]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Cut Above the Rest]]'' || [[The Sweet|Sweet]]||UK
|-
| ''[[Flirtin' with Disaster]]'' || [[Molly Hatchet]]||
|-
| ''[[Harder ... Faster]]'' || [[April Wine]] ||
|-
| ''[[Head Injuries]]'' || [[Midnight Oil]] ||
|-
| ''[[I'll Always Love You (album)|I'll Always Love You]]'' || [[Anne Murray]]||
|-
| ''[[Keep the Fire]]'' || [[Kenny Loggins]]||
|-
| ''[[Magnum II]]'' || [[Magnum (band)|Magnum]]||
|-
| ''[[Primal Park]]'' || [[Mondo Rock]] ||
|-
| ''[[Reality Effect]]'' || [[The Tourists]] ||
|-
| ''[[Rockin' into the Night]]'' || [[38 Special (band)|38 Special]] ||
|-
| ''[[Thighs and Whispers]]'' || [[Bette Midler]]||
|-
| ''[[Wet (album)|Wet]]'' || [[Barbra Streisand]]||
|-
|}

===November===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |1
| ''[[Freedom at Point Zero]]'' || [[Jefferson Starship]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |2
| ''[[On Parole]]'' || [[Motörhead]] ||Recorded in 1976
|-
| ''[[Broken English (album)|Broken English]]'' || [[Marianne Faithfull]]||
|-
| valign="top" |6
| ''[[Pretty Paper (album)|Pretty Paper]]'' || [[Willie Nelson]] || Christmas
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |9
| ''[[The Soundhouse Tapes]]'' || [[Iron Maiden]] || Debut/EP
|-
| ''[[Machine Gun Etiquette]]'' || [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]] ||
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Live Rust]]'' || [[Neil Young]] [[Crazy Horse (band)|& Crazy Horse]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Down on the Farm (album)|Down on the Farm]]'' || [[Little Feat]]||
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert]]'' || [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]] || Live <ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Emerson%2C+Lake+%26+Palmer&titel=In+Concert&cat=a|title=In Concert}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Night in the Ruts]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] ||
|-
| ''[[Setting Sons]]'' || [[The Jam]] ||
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Joe's Garage Acts II & III]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||
|-
| rowspan="6" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Real to Real Cacophony]]'' || [[Simple Minds]] ||
|-
| ''[[Platinum (Mike Oldfield album)|Platinum]]'' || [[Mike Oldfield]] ||
|-
| ''[[ELO's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Electric Light Orchestra]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Metal Box]]'' || [[Public Image Ltd.]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Raincoats (album)|The Raincoats]]'' || [[The Raincoats]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Live! Coast to Coast]]'' || [[Teddy Pendergrass]] || Live
|-
| valign="top" |28
| ''[[Gloryhallastoopid]]'' || [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] ||
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |30
| ''[[The Wall]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] ||
|-
| ''[[New York–London–Paris–Munich]]'' || [[M (band)|M]] ||
|-
| ''[[Dirk Wears White Sox]]'' || [[Adam and the Ants]] ||
|-
| rowspan="11" valign="top" | N/A
| ''Brass Construction 5'' || [[Brass Construction]] ||
|-
| ''[[Degüello]]'' || [[ZZ Top]] ||
|-
| ''[[English Garden (album)|English Garden]]'' || [[Bruce Woolley|Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club]] ||
|-
| ''[[Get Wet (Mental As Anything album)|Get Wet]]'' || [[Mental As Anything]] ||
|-
| ''[[Masterjam]]'' || [[Rufus (band)|Rufus]] ||
|-
| ''[[No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future]]'' || Various Artists || Triple Live LP
|-
| ''Not Like Everybody Else!'' || [[Jimmy and the Boys]] ||
|-
| ''[[Phoenix (Dan Fogelberg album)|Phoenix]]'' || [[Dan Fogelberg]] ||
|-
| ''[[The Reels (album)|The Reels]]'' || [[The Reels]] ||
|-
| ''Sometimes You Win'' || [[Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show|Dr. Hook]] ||
|-
| ''We're the Best of Friends'' || [[Natalie Cole]] & [[Peabo Bryson]] ||
|-
|}

===December===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| valign="top" |7
| ''[[Quiet Life]]'' || [[Japan (band)|Japan]] || International
|-
| valign="top" |14
| ''[[London Calling]]'' || [[The Clash]] ||
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Christopher Cross (album)|Christopher Cross]]'' || [[Christopher Cross]] || Warner Bros.
|-
| valign="top" |27
| ''[[Adventures in Utopia]]'' || [[Utopia (American band)|Utopia]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |31
| ''[[Score (Carol Lloyd album)|Score]]'' || [[Carol Lloyd (American singer)|Carol Lloyd]] ||
|-
| rowspan="5" valign="top" | N/A
| ''[[20 Jazz Funk Greats]]'' || [[Throbbing Gristle]] ||
|-
| ''[[Sid Sings]]'' || [[Sid Vicious]] ||
|-
| ''[[September Morn (album)|September Morn]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] || 
|-
| ''[[Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Chic (band)|Chic]] ||
|-
| ''[[Sabotage/Live]]'' || [[John Cale]] || Live
|}

===Release date unknown===
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* ''[[3D (The Three Degrees album)|3D]]'' – [[The Three Degrees]] 
* ''[[The Adventures of the Hersham Boys]]'' – [[Sham 69]]
* ''[[An American Dream (album)|An American Dream]]'' - [[The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]]
* ''[[The Audience with Betty Carter]]'' – [[Betty Carter]]
* ''[[The Beat (American band album)|The Beat]]'' – [[The Beat (American band)|The Beat]]
* ''[[The Beatles Concerto]]'' – [[John Rutter]]
* ''[[Born to Be Alive (album)|Born to Be Alive]]'' – [[Patrick Hernandez]]
* ''[[Breaking Loose (album)|Breaking Loose]]'' – [[Helix (band)|Helix]]
* ''[[Buona domenica]]'' – [[Antonello Venditti]]
* ''[[Buy (album)|Buy]]'' – [[James Chance & the Contortions]]
* ''[[California (Gianna Nannini album)|California]]'' – [[Gianna Nannini]]
* ''[[The Candidate (album)|The Candidate]]'' – [[Steve Harley]]
* ''[[Casino Classics: Chapter One]]'' – Various artists
* ''[[Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella]]'' – [[Nurse With Wound]]
* ''[[A Classy Pair]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Count Basie]]
* ''[[The Crack]]'' – [[The Ruts]]
* ''[[Deltics (album)|Deltics]]'' – [[Chris Rea]]
* ''[[Demo EP (Oingo Boingo)|Demo EP]]'' – [[Oingo Boingo]]
* ''[[Disco Nights]]'' – [[GQ (band)|GQ]]
* ''[[Digital III at Montreux]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Count Basie]] and [[Joe Pass]]
* ''[[Don't Fight It (album)|Don't Fight It]]'' – [[Red Rider]] 
* ''[[Earthquake (album)|Earthquake]]'' – [[Electric Sun]]
* ''[[Fine and Mellow (Ella Fitzgerald album)|Fine and Mellow]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]]
* ''[[French Skyline]]'' – [[Earthstar (band)|Earthstar]]
* ''[[Future Now]]'' – [[Pleasure (American band)|Pleasure]]
* ''[[Grosses Wasser]]'' – [[Cluster (band)|Cluster]]
* ''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]'' – Various Artists – Soundtrack
* ''[[Identify Yourself]]'' – [[The O'Jays]]
* ''[[The Innes Book of Records]]'' – [[Neil Innes]]
* ''[[Invasion of the Booty Snatchers]]'' – [[Parlet]]
* ''[[Jardin Au Fou]]'' – [[Hans-Joachim Roedelius]]
* ''[[The Kenny Rogers Singles Album]]'' – [[Kenny Rogers]]
* ''[[Lenox Avenue Breakdown]]'' – [[Arthur Blythe]]
* ''[[Let's Drip Awhile]]'' – [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]] - Live
* ''[[Live & Direct (Taj Mahal album)|Live & Direct]]'' - [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]] - Live
* ''[[Live! Go for What You Know]]'' – [[Pat Travers|Pat Travers Band]]
* ''[[Living Dub Vol. 1]]'' - [[Burning Spear]]
* ''[[Lo Pasado, Pasado]]'' – [[José José]]
* ''[[Looking for Saint Tropez]]'' – [[Telex (band)|Telex]]
* ''[[Lots of Luv']]'' – [[Luv']] 
* ''[[Lubbock (On Everything)]]'' – [[Terry Allen (country singer)|Terry Allen]]
* ''[[A Million Vacations]]'' – [[Max Webster]] 
* ''[[Morning Dance]]'' – [[Spyro Gyra]]
* ''[[Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live]]'' – [[Muddy Waters]] – Live
* ''[[A Night at Studio 54]]'' – Various artists
* ''[[On the Road Again (Roy Wood album)|On the Road Again]]'' – [[Roy Wood]]
* ''[[A Perfect Match (Ella Fitzgerald album)|A Perfect Match]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Count Basie]]
* ''[[Rainbow's End (album)|Rainbow's End]]'' – [[Resurrection Band]]
* ''[[Rise (Herb Alpert album)|Rise]]'' – [[Herb Alpert]]
* ''[[Rockit (album)|Rockit]]'' – [[Chuck Berry]]
* ''[[Rock On (Raydio album)|Rock On]]'' – [[Raydio]]
* ''[[The Roches (album)|The Roches]]'' – [[The Roches]]
* ''[[Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes]]'' – [[Eloy (band)|Eloy]]
* ''[[Sky (Sky album)|Sky]]'' – [[Sky (English/Australian band)|Sky]]
* ''[[Slumberin' on the Cumberland]]'' - [[John Hartford]]
* ''[[Songs of Love (Anita Ward album)|Songs of Love]]'' – [[Anita Ward]]
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' – [[Jerry Goldsmith]] – Soundtrack
* ''[[Stations of the Crass]]'' – [[Crass]]
* ''[[Street Life (The Crusaders album)|Street Life]]'' – [[The Crusaders (Houston group)|The Crusaders]]
* ''[[Take It Home (B.B. King album)|Take It Home]]'' – [[B.B. King]]
* ''[[Tango Palace (Dr. John album)|Tango Palace]]'' - [[Dr. John]]
* ''[[Teenage Head (Teenage Head album)|Teenage Head]]'' – [[Teenage Head (band)|Teenage Head]]
* ''[[Teenage Warning]]'' – [[Angelic Upstarts]]
* ''[[Thanks, I'll Eat It Here]]'' – [[Lowell George]]
* ''[[Tiger in the Rain]]'' – [[Michael Franks (musician)|Michael Franks]]
* ''[[Together Again (The Dubliners album)|Together Again]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
* ''[[True Luv']]'' – [[Luv']] 
* ''[[Underdog (Atlanta Rhythm Section album)|Underdog]]'' – [[Atlanta Rhythm Section]]
* ''[[The Very Best of Leo Sayer]]'' – [[Leo Sayer]]
* ''[[Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant album)|Walking on Sunshine]]'' – [[Eddy Grant]]
* ''[[Washes Whiter Than]]'' – [[Petra (band)|Petra]]
}}

==Biggest hit singles==
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1979.<ref>[http://tsort.info/music/yr1979.htm Songs from the Year 1979]</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! #
! Artist
! Title
! Year
! Country
! Chart entries
|-
| 1  || [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] || [[Heart of Glass (song)|Heart of Glass]] || 1979 || {{flagicon|US}} || UK 1 – Jan 1979, US BB 1 – Mar 1979, Canada 1 – Mar 1979, Austria 1 – Mar 1979, Switzerland 1 – Feb 1979, Germany 1 – Feb 1979, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1980, Sweden (alt) 3 – Mar 1979, France 3 – Feb 1979, Australia 3 of 1979, Netherlands 5 – Feb 1979, Norway 5 – Mar 1979, RYM 8 of 1979, US CashBox 11 of 1979, US BB 1 of 1979, POP 13 of 1979, South Africa 15 of 1979, Italy 29 of 1979, Virgin 29, OzNet 30, Scrobulate 46 of 80s, Germany 54 of the 1970s, RIAA 217, Acclaimed 241, Rolling Stone 255
|-
| 2  || [[Chic]] || [[Le Freak]] || 1978 ||{{flagicon|US}} || US Billboard 1 - Oct 1978 (24 weeks), US CashBox 1 of 1979, Record World 1 - 1978, US Radio 1 of 1978 (peak 1 16 weeks), Canada RPM 1 for 2 weeks - Jan 1979, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks - Jan 1979, RIANZ 1 - Dec 1978 (19 weeks), Australia 1 for 5 weeks - Feb 1979, Springbok 1 - Feb 1979 (14 weeks), Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015 (1978), Library of Congress artifact added 2017 (1978), Holland 2 - Dec 1978 (20 weeks), France (SNEP) 2 - Feb 1979 (4 months), Switzerland 2 - Jan 1979 (14 weeks), Belgium 2 - Dec 1978 (14 weeks), US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Dec 1978), US BB 3 of 1979, Canada 3 - Dec 1978 (20 weeks), France 3 - Feb 1979 (3 weeks), Brazil 4 of 1979, UK Gold (certified by BPI in Apr 1979), Germany 5 - Jan 1979 (5 months), ODK Germany 5 - Jan 1979 (22 weeks) (9 weeks in top 10), Sweden (alt) 6 - Dec 1978 (18 weeks), Austria 6 - Feb 1979 (4 months), UK 7 - Nov 1978 (16 weeks), Australia 8 of 1979, South Africa 8 of 1979, Norway 9 - Apr 1979 (3 weeks), Italy 12 of 1979, WABC NY 13 of 1979, Scrobulate 13 of disco, Switzerland 17 of 1979, Billboard 50th song 19, 55th Billboard 100 21 (1978), Billboard100 22, POP 26 of 1978, Canada 42 of 1979, France (InfoDisc) 51 of the 1970s (peak 2, 30 weeks, 700k sales estimated, 1978), nuTsie 80 of 1970s, Germany 270 of the 1970s (peak 5 15 weeks), Acclaimed 365 (1978), OzNet 761, RYM 55 of 1978, Guardian Dance 4, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1979, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
|-
| 3  || [[Gloria Gaynor]] || [[I Will Survive]] || 1978 ||{{flagicon|US}} || UK 1 – Feb 1979, US BB 1 – Jan 1979, US BB 1 of 1979, Canada 1 – Mar 1979, Republic of Ireland 1 – Mar 1979, POP 2 of 1979, Sweden (alt) 3 – Apr 1979, Netherlands 4 – Mar 1979, Norway 4 – May 1979, Switzerland 7 – Apr 1979, Scrobulate 8 of disco, Germany 9 – Mar 1979, US CashBox 10 of 1979, France 10 – Mar 1979, South Africa 16 of 1979, Austria 17 – May 1979, Party 24 of 1999, Australia 25 of 1979, Italy 38 of 1979, Europe 66 of the 1970s, RYM 67 of 1978, RIAA 89, OzNet 155, Acclaimed 416, Rolling Stone 489
|-
| 4  || [[Patrick Hernandez]] || [[Born to Be Alive (song)|Born to Be Alive]] || 1979 || {{flagicon|France}} || Sweden (alt) 1 – Jul 1979 (20 weeks), France (SNEP) 1 – Feb 1979 (5 months), France 1 – Mar 1979 (5 weeks), Austria 1 – Apr 1979 (6 weeks), Norway 1 – Jul 1979 (17 weeks), Belgium 1 – Jan 1979 (18 weeks), Germany 1 – Mar 1979 (6 months), Canada RPM 1 for 2 weeks – Aug 1979, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks – Oct 1979, RIANZ 1 – Sep 1979 (14 weeks), Australia 1 for 5 weeks – Oct 1979, France 1 for 15 weeks – Mar 1979, Germany 1 for 5 weeks – May 1979, France (InfoDisc) 4 of the 1970s (peak 1, 30 weeks, 1,412k sales estimated, 1979), US Gold (certified by RIAA in Nov 1979), Germany Gold (certified by BMieV in 1979), Netherlands 5 – Feb 1979 (18 weeks), Switzerland 5 – Feb 1979 (13 weeks), Australia 5 of 1979, Springbok 6 – Aug 1979 (11 weeks), Italy 7 of 1979, UK 10 – Jun 1979 (14 weeks), POP 11 of 1979, Canada 12 – Jul 1979 (6 weeks), US BB 15 of 1979, US Billboard 16 – Jun 1979 (19 weeks), Record World 19 – 1979, Germany 20 of the 1970s (peak 1 25 weeks), Brazil 32 of 1979, Scrobulate 68 of disco, US Radio 108 of 1979 (peak 16 5 weeks), RYM 200 of 1979, UK Silver (certified by BPI in Sep 1979), Global 7 (10 M sold) – 1979
|-
| 5  || [[Bee Gees]] || [[Tragedy (Bee Gees song)|Tragedy]] || 1979 || {{flagicon|UK}} || UK 1 - Feb 1979 (10 weeks), US Billboard 1 - Feb 1979 (20 weeks), Record World 1 - 1979, Canada 1 - Feb 1979 (16 weeks), France 1 - Mar 1979 (4 weeks), Italy 1 for 7 weeks - Mar 1979, Eire 1 for 2 weeks - Feb 1979, Canada RPM 1 for 4 weeks - Mar 1979, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks - Mar 1979, RIANZ 1 - Mar 1979 (13 weeks), Europe 1 for 5 weeks - Mar 1979, France 1 for 4 weeks - Feb 1979, Austria 2 - Apr 1979 (4 months), Switzerland 2 - Mar 1979 (10 weeks), Belgium 2 - Feb 1979 (11 weeks), ODK Germany 2 - Feb 1979 (20 weeks) (10 weeks in top 10), Springbok 2 - Apr 1979 (9 weeks), US Platinum (certified by RIAA in May 1979), France (SNEP) 3 - Mar 1979 (4 months), Holland 4 - Feb 1979 (10 weeks), Norway 4 - Mar 1979 (7 weeks), Italy 4 of 1979, Germany 4 - Mar 1979 (3 months), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Feb 1979), Sweden (alt) 6 - Mar 1979 (12 weeks), Brazil 8 of 1979, Canada 12 of 1979, France (InfoDisc) 14 of the 1970s (peak 1, 26 weeks, 821k sales estimated, 1979), South Africa 14 of 1979, US BB 16 of 1979, US Radio 17 of 1979 (peak 1 11 weeks), US CashBox 19 of 1979, WABC NY 23 of 1979, Scrobulate 79 of disco, OzNet 106, Germany 227 of the 1970s (peak 2 13 weeks), RYM 136 of 1979
|}

==Chronological list of US and UK and Japan number-one hit singles==
'''US number-one singles and artist'''<br>  (weeks at No. 1)
{{div col}}
*"[[Babe (Styx song)|Babe]]" – [[Styx (band)|Styx]] (2)
*"[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer song)|Bad Girls]]" – [[Donna Summer]] (5)
*"[[Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?]]" – [[Rod Stewart]] (4)
*"[[Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough]]" – [[Michael Jackson]] (1)
*"[[Escape (The Piña Colada Song)]]" – [[Rupert Holmes]] (2 weeks in 1979 + 1 week in 1980)
*"[[Good Times (Chic song)|Good Times]]" – [[Chic (band)|Chic]] (1)
*"[[Heart of Glass (song)|Heart of Glass]]" – [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] (1)
*"[[Heartache Tonight]]" – The [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] (1)
*"[[Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)|Hot Stuff]]" – [[Donna Summer]] (3)
*"[[I Will Survive]]" – [[Gloria Gaynor]] (3)
*"[[Knock on Wood (Eddie Floyd song)|Knock on Wood]]" – [[Amii Stewart]] (1)
*"[[Le Freak]]" – [[Chic (band)|Chic]] (3 weeks in 1978 + 3 weeks in 1979)
*"[[Love You Inside Out]]" – [[Bee Gees]] (1)
*"[[My Sharona]]" – [[The Knack]] (6)
*"[[No More Tears (Enough is Enough)]]" – [[Barbra Streisand]] & [[Donna Summer]] (2)
*"[[Pop Muzik]]" – [[Robin Scott (singer)|M]] (1)
*"[[Reunited (song)|Reunited]]" – [[Peaches & Herb]] (4)
*"[[Ring My Bell]]" – [[Anita Ward]] (2)
*"[[Rise (Herb Alpert song)|Rise]]" – [[Herb Alpert]] (2)
*"[[Sad Eyes (Robert John song)|Sad Eyes]]" – [[Robert John]] (1)
*"[[Still (Commodores song)|Still]]" – [[Commodores]] (1)
*"[[Too Much Heaven]]" – [[Bee Gees]] (2)
*"[[Tragedy (Bee Gees song)|Tragedy]]" – [[Bee Gees]] (2)
*"[[What a Fool Believes]]" – [[The Doobie Brothers]] (1)
* ''Also see: [[Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1979]]''
{{div col end}}
'''UK number-one singles and artist'''<br>  (weeks at No. 1)
{{div col}}
*"[[Another Brick in the Wall|Another Brick in the Wall, Part II]]" – [[Pink Floyd]] (3 weeks in 1979 + 2 weeks in 1980)
*"[[Are 'Friends' Electric?]]" – [[Tubeway Army]] (4)
*"[[Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)|Bright Eyes]]" – [[Art Garfunkel]] (6)
*"[[Cars (song)|Cars]]" – [[Gary Numan]] (1)
*"[[Heart of Glass (song)|Heart of Glass]]" – [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] (4)
*"[[Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick]]" – [[Ian Dury and The Blockheads]] (1)
*"[[I Don't Like Mondays (song)|I Don't Like Mondays]]" – [[The Boomtown Rats]] (4)
*"[[I Will Survive]]" – [[Gloria Gaynor]] (4)
*"[[Message in a Bottle (The Police song)|Message in a Bottle]]" – [[The Police]] (3)
*"[[One Day at a Time (1975 TV series)|One Day at a Time]]" – [[Lena Martell]] (3)
*"[[Ring My Bell]]" – [[Anita Ward]] (2)
*"[[Sunday Girl]]" – [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] (3)
*"[[Tragedy (Bee Gees song)|Tragedy]]" – [[Bee Gees]] (2)
*"[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]" – [[The Buggles]] (1)
*"[[Walking on the Moon]]" – [[The Police]] (1)
*"[[We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song)|We Don't Talk Anymore]]" – [[Cliff Richard]] (4)
*"[[When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman]]" – [[Dr. Hook]] (3)
*"[[Y.M.C.A. (song)|Y.M.C.A.]]" – [[Village People]] (3)
{{div col end}}
'''Japanese Oricon number-one singles and artist'''
<br>(weeks at No. 1)
{{main|List of Oricon number-one singles of 1979}}
{{div col}}
*[[Chameleon Army]] – [[Pink Lady (duo)|Pink Lady]] (4 weeks in 1979 + 2 weeks in 1978)
*"{{illm|Champion (Alice song)|lt=Champion|ja|チャンピオン (曲)}}" – [[Alice (band)|Alice]] (4)
*"{{ill|Hero (Hero ni Naru Toki, Sore wa Ima)|ja|HERO（ヒーローになる時、それは今）}}" – {{ill|Kai Band|ja|甲斐バンド}} (2)
*[[Young Man (Y.M.C.A.)]] – [[Hideki Saijo]] (5)
*"{{ill|Miserarete|ja|魅せられて (ジュディ・オングの曲)}}" – [[Judy Ongg]] (9)
*"{{ill|Kimi no Asa|ja|きみの朝}}" – {{ill|Satoshi Kishida|ja|岸田敏志}} (5)
*"{{ill|Omoide-zake|ja|おもいで酒}}" – [[Sachiko Kobayashi]] (1)
*"{{ill|Kanpaku Sengen|ja|関白宣言}}" – [[Masashi Sada]] (10)
*"{{ill|Sexual Violet No. 1|ja|セクシャルバイオレットNo.1}}" – {{ill|Masahiro Kuwana|ja|桑名正博}} (3)
*"{{ill|Oyaji no Ichiban Nagai Hi|ja|親父の一番長い日}}" – Masashi Sada (6)
*"[[Ihojin]]" – [[Saki Kubota]] (4 weeks in 1979 + 3 weeks in 1980)
{{div col end}}

==Top 40 Chart hit singles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Song title 
! Artist(s) 
! Release date(s) 
! [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]
! [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]
! Highest chart position
! Other Chart Performance(s)
|-
|| "[[99 (song)|99]]" || [[Toto (band)|Toto]] || {{Date table sorting|121979}}|December 1979 || 26 || n/a || 26 (US) || 17 (Canada) - 97 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Accidents Will Happen]]" || [[Elvis Costello]] and the Attractions || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 101 || 28 || 28 (UK) || n/a
|-
|| "[[After the Love Has Gone]]" || [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || 2 || 4 || 2 (US) || [[After the Love Has Gone#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now]]" || [[McFadden & Whitehead]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 13 || 5 || 1 (U.S. Billboard Hot R&B) || [[Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Angel Eyes (Roxy Music song)|Angel Eyes]]" || [[Roxy Music]] || {{Date table sorting|081979}}|August 1979 || n/a || 4 || 4 (UK, Belgium) || [[Angel Eyes (Roxy Music song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Angeleyes]]" || [[ABBA]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || 64 || 3 || 3 (UK) || 37 (US Adult Contemporary [Billboard]) - 76 (US Cashbox Top 100 Singles) 
|-
|| "[[Baby I'm Burning]]" || [[Dolly Parton]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 25 || n/a || 1 (Canada Country Singles) || [[Baby I'm Burnin'#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "Baby It's You" || [[Promises (group)|Promises]] || {{Date table sorting|021979}}|February 1979 || n/a || n/a || 1 (New Zealand) || 2 (Australia) - 4 (West Germany) - 12 (Belgium)
|-
|| "[[Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)]]" || [[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || 14 || 61 || 1 (Canada) || [[Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[The Ballad of Lucy Jordan]]" || [[Marianne Faithfull]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || n/a || 48 || 2 (Austria) || [[The Ballad of Lucy Jordan#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Better Love Next Time]]" || [[Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show|Dr. Hook]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || 12 || 8 || 7 (Ireland) || [[Better Love Next Time#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Big Shot (song)|Big Shot]]" || [[Billy Joel]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 14 || n/a || 13 (Canada) || 13 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 36 (New Zealand) - 91 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Boogie Wonderland]]" || [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] with [[the Emotions]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 6 || 4 || 2 (France, Norway, US Hot Soul Singles) || [[Boogie Wonderland#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Born to Be Alive (album)|Born to Be Alive]]" || [[Patrick Hernandez]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 16 || 10 || 1 [[Born to Be Alive (song)#Weekly charts|(13 Countries)]] || [[Born to Be Alive (song)#Weekly charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Boys Keep Swinging]]" || [[David Bowie]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || n/a || 7 || 7 (UK) || 16 (Netherlands) - 18 (Belgium) - 19 (Ireland) - 51 (Spain) - 85 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Breakfast in America (song)|Breakfast in America]]" || [[Supertramp]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 62 || 9 || 6 (Ireland) || [[Breakfast in America (song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Broken Hearted Me]]" || [[Anne Murray]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 12 || n/a || 15 (Canada) || 1 (Canada Country Tracks) - 1 (Canada Adult Contemporary) - 1 (US Hot Country Singles [Billboard]) - 1 (US Adult Contemporary [Billboard])
|-
|| "[[Can't Stand Losing You]]" || [[The Police]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || n/a || 2 || 2 (United Kingdom) || [[Can't Stand Losing You#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Casanova (Luv' song)|Casanova]]" || [[Luv']] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || n/a || n/a || 2 (Austria, Denmark, Europe, Netherlands) || [[Casanova (Luv' song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Chuck E.'s In Love]]" || [[Rickie Lee Jones]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 4 || 18 || 4 (United States) || [[Chuck E.'s in Love#Chart history|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Computer Games (song)|Computer Games]]" || [[Mi-Sex]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || n/a || n/a || 1 (Australia) || 2 (Canada) - 5 (New Zealand) - 16 (Austria) - 44 (Netherlands) - 61 (US Hot Dance Club Songs)
|-
|| "[[Cool for Cats (song)|Cool For Cats]]" || [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || n/a || 2 || 2 (United Kingdom) || 5 (Australia) - 11 (New Zealand) - 33 (Netherlands (Single Top 100)) - 39 (Netherlands (Dutch Top 40))
|-
|| "[[Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]" || [[Queen (band)|Queen]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || 1 || 2 || 1 [[Crazy Little Thing Called Love#Charts|(4 countries)]] || [[Crazy Little Thing Called Love#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Chiquitita]]" || [[ABBA]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 29 || 2 || 1 [[Chiquitita#Charts|(5 countries)]] || [[Chiquitita#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[The Cost of Living (EP)|The Cost of Living]]" || [[The Clash]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || n/a || 22 || 22 (United Kingdom) || 24 (Ireland)
|-
|| "[[Crazy Love (Poco song)|Crazy Love]]" || [[Poco (band)|Poco]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 ||  17 || n/a || 17 (United States) || 1 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 7 (US Radio & Records chart) - 15 (Canada RPM Top Singles) - 73 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Cruel to Be Kind]]" || [[Nick Lowe]] || {{Date table sorting|081979}}|August 1979 ||  12 || 12 || 12 (Australia, United Kingdom, United States) || 12 (Canada RPM Top Singles, U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 34 (New Zealand)
|-
||  "[[Dance Away]]" || [[Roxy Music]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 44 || 2 || 1 (Ireland) || 8 (Netherlands) - 10 (New Zealand) - 12 (Belgium) - 20 (Sweden) - 30 (West Germany) - 75 (Canada) - 92 (Australia)
|-
| "[[Dance the Night Away (Van Halen song)|Dance the Night Away]]" || [[Van Halen]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 15 || n/a || 15 (United States) || 28 (Canada)
|-
|| "[[Dancin' Shoes]]" || [[Nigel Olsson]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 18 || n/a || 18 (United States) || 62 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[The Devil Went Down to Georgia]]" || [[Charlie Daniels]] Band || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 3 || 14 || 3 (United States) || 1 (Canada Country Tracks, US Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 4 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 5 (Canada) - 13 (New Zealand) - 14 (Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom) - 25 (Netherlands Dutch Top 20) - 30 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) 
|-
|| "[[The Diary of Horace Wimp]]" || [[Electric Light Orchestra]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || n/a || 8 || 8 (United Kingdom)  || 10 (Ireland) - 48 (Australia) - 52 (West Germany) 
|-
|| "[[Dim All the Lights]]" || [[Donna Summer]] || {{Date table sorting|081979}}|August 1979 || 2 || 29 || 2 (United States) || [[Dim All the Lights#Charts|See chart entry performance]]
|-
|| "[[Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)]]" || [[GQ (band)|GQ]] || {{Date table sorting|021979}}|February 1979 || 12 || 42 || 12 (United States) || 1 (US Billboard Hot Soul Singles) - 3 (US Billboard Dance Club Songs) - 97 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Do Anything You Want To]]" || [[Thin Lizzy]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 81 || 14 || 14 (United Kingdom) || 25 (Ireland)
|-
|| "[[Do That to Me One More Time]]" || [[Captain & Tennille]]  || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || 1 || 7 || 1 (Belgium, Netherlands, South Africa, United States) || [[Do That to Me One More Time#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Does Your Mother Know]]" || [[ABBA]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 19 || 4 || 1 (Belgium, Europe) || [[Does Your Mother Know#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Don't Bring Me Down]]" || [[Electric Light Orchestra]] || {{Date table sorting|081979}}|August 1979 || 4 || 3 || 1 (Canada) || [[Don't Bring Me Down#Chart and sales|See chart entry performance]]
|-
|| "[[Don't Cry Out Loud (song)|Don't Cry Out Loud]]" || [[Melissa Manchester]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 10 || n/a || 9 (Canada) || 2 (Canada RPM Adult Contemporary) - 9 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 10 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 57 (Australia) ''[Released in October 1978 and continued charting in 1979]''
|-
|| "[[Don't Do Me Like That]]" || [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]] || {{Date table sorting|111979}}|November 1979 || 10 || n/a || 3 (Canada) || 7 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 17 (New Zealand)
|-
|| "[[Don't Stop Til You Get Enough]]" || [[Michael Jackson]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || 1 || 3 || 1 [[Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough#Charts|(8 countries)]] || [[Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Dream Police (song)|Dream Police]]" || [[Cheap Trick]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 26 || n/a || 5 (Australia) || 7 (New Zealand) - 9 (Canada) - 37 (Netherlands Dutch Top 40) - 79 (Japan)
|-
|| "[[Dreaming (Blondie song)|Dreaming]]" || [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 27 || 2 || 2 (United Kingdom) || [[Dreaming (Blondie song)#Charts|See chart entry performance]] 
|-
|| [[Driver's Seat]]" || [[Sniff 'n' the Tears]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 15 || 42 || 1 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]/[Single Top 100] || [[Driver's Seat#Chart performance|See chart entry performance]] 
|-
|| "[[Dschinghis Khan (song)|Dschinghis Khan]]" || [[Dschinghis Khan]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || n/a || n/a ||  1 (West Germany) || 3 (Norway, Switzerland) - 5 (Finland) - 8 (Austria) - 20 (Belgium)
|-
|| "[[Every Day Hurts]]" || [[Sad Café (band)|Sad Café]] || {{Date table sorting|081979}}|August 1979 || n/a || 3 || 3 (United Kingdom) || 78 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Fire (Bruce Springsteen song)|Fire]]" || [[The Pointer Sisters]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || 2* || 34 || 1 [[Fire (Bruce Springsteen song)|(4 countries)]] ||  [[Fire (Bruce Springsteen song)|See chart entry performance]] *1978 in US
|-
|| "[[Get Used to It (song)|Get Used to It]]" || [[Roger Voudouris]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || 22 || n/a || 4 (Australia) || 18 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 22 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 20 (New Zealand) - 45 (Canada)
|-
|| "[[Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)]]" || [[ABBA]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || n/a || 3 || 1 [[Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)|(6 countries)]] || [[Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)|See chart entry performances]]
|-
|| "[[Girls Talk (Elvis Costello song)|Girls Talk]]" || [[Dave Edmunds]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 65 || 4 || 4 (United Kingdom) || 9 (Australia) - 11 (Ireland) - 18 (Canada) - 65 (US Cash Box Top 100)
|-
|| "[[Go West (song)|Go West]]" || [[Village People]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 45 || 15 || 12 (Belgium) || 13 (Canada) - 14 (US Billboard Dance Club Songs) - 15 (Ireland, United Kingdom) - 29 (Netherlands [Single Top 100]) - 31 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40)] - 41 (Canada)
|-
|| "[[Gold (John Stewart song)|Gold]]" || [[John Stewart (musician)|John Stewart]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 5 || 43 || 4 (Canada) || 5 (Australia) - 6 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 13 (New Zealand) - 42 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary)
|-
|| "[[Good Times (Chic song)|Good Times]]" || [[Chic (band)|Chic]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 1 || 5 || 1 (Canada, United States) || [[Good Times (Chic song)#Charts|See chart entry performance]] 
|-
|| "[[Goodbye Stranger]]" || [[Supertramp]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || 15 || 57 || 6 (Canada) || [[Goodbye Stranger#Charts and certifications|See chart entry performance]]
|-
|| "[[Goodnight Tonight]]" || [[Wings (band)|Wings]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 5 || 5 || 1 (Canada) || [[Goodnight Tonight#Chart performance|See chart entry]]
|-
|| "[[Half The Way]]" || [[Crystal Gayle]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 15 || n/a || 1 (Canada) || 2 (Canadian Adult Contemporary Tracks) - 2 (US Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 4 (South Africa) - 9 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 56 (Canada)
|-
|| "Halfway Hotel" || [[Voyager (English band)|Voyager]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || n/a || 33 || 33 (United Kingdom) || 15 (Australia)
|-
|| "[[Hallelujah (Milk and Honey song)|Hallelujah]]" || [[Milk and Honey (Israeli group)|Milk and Honey]], including [[Gali Atari]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || n/a || 5 || 1 (Finland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Sweden) || [[Hallelujah (Milk and Honey song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[He's the Greatest Dancer]]" || [[Sister Sledge]] || {{Date table sorting|021979}}|February 1979 || 9 || 6 || 6 (Canada, United Kingdom) || [[He's the Greatest Dancer#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Heaven Knows (Donna Summer song)|Heaven Knows]]" || [[Donna Summer]] w/Brooklyn Dreams || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 4 || 34 || 3 (Canada) || [[Heaven Knows (Donna Summer song)#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Highway to Hell (song)|Highway to Hell]]" || [[AC/DC]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || 47 || 56 || 14 (Belgian) || [[Highway to Hell (song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Honesty (Billy Joel song)|Honesty]]" || [[Billy Joel]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 24 || n/a || 1 (France) || [[Honesty (Billy Joel song)#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[I Have a Dream (song)|I Have a Dream]]" || [[ABBA]] || {{Date table sorting|121979}}|December 1979 || n/a || 2 || 1 (Austria, Belgium, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40)/[Single Top 100), Switzerland) || 2 (Ireland) - 3 (South Africa) - 64 (Australia)
|-
| "[[I Know a Heartache When I See One]]" || [[Jennifer Warnes]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 19 || n/a || 19 (United States) || 10 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 12 (Canada RPM Country) - 14 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 21 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 46 (Canada RPM Top Singles)   
|-
| "[[I Just Fall in Love Again]]" || [[Anne Murray]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || 12 || 58 || 1 (Canada) || 1 (Canadian RPM Country Tracks, Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary, U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs, U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks) - 46 (Australia)  
|-
| "[[I Want You to Want Me|I Want You To Want Me (live)]]" || [[Cheap Trick]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 7 || 29 || 1 (Belgium, Japan, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]) || 2 (Canada) - 3 (U.S. Cash Box top 100) - 15 (Austria) - 18 (West Germany) - 23 (New Zealand)
|-
| "[[I Was Made For Lovin' You]]" || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] || {{Date table sorting|051979}}|May 1979 || 11 || 50 || 1 (Belgium, Canada, France, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]/[Single Top 100], New Zealand) || [[I Was Made for Lovin' You#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[I Will Survive]]" || [[Gloria Gaynor]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || 1 || 1 || 1 (Ireland, United Kingdom, United States) || [[I Will Survive#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me]]" || [[The Bellamy Brothers]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || 39 || 3 || 3 (United Kingdom) || 1 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 11 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]) - 17 (New Zealand) - 24 (Canadian RPM Country Tracks)
|-
| "[[(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right]]" || [[Barbara Mandrell]] || {{Date table sorting|021979}}|February 1979 || 31 || n/a || 31 (United States) || 1 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 6 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary)
|-
| "[[In the Navy]]" || [[Village People]] || {{Date table sorting|031979}}|March 1979 || 3 || n/a || 1 (Belgium, Canada, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]/[Single Top 100]) || [[In the Navy#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Is She Really Going Out with Him?]]" || [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] || {{Date table sorting|041979}}|April 1979 || 21 || 13 || 8 (Ireland) || 9 (Canada) - 15 (Australia) - 18 (New Zealand) - 46 (Netherlands [Single Top 100)]
|-
| "[[Lucky Number (song)|Lucky Number]]" || [[Lene Lovich]] || {{Date table sorting|011979}}|January 1979 || n/a || 3 || 2 (Australia) || [[Lucky Number (song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[This Is It (Kenny Loggins song)|This Is It]]" || [[Kenny Loggins]] || {{Date table sorting|101979}}|October 1979 || 11 || n/a || 9 (Canada) || [[This Is It (Kenny Loggins song)|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Tusk (song)|Tusk]]" || [[Fleetwood Mac]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 8 || 6 || 3 (Australia) || [[Tusk (song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]" || [[The Buggles]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 40 || 1 || 1 [[Video Killed the Radio Star#Charts|(11 countries)]] || [[Video Killed the Radio Star#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song)|We Don't Talk Anymore]]" || [[Cliff Richard]] || {{Date table sorting|071979}}|July 1979 || 7 || 1 || 1 [[We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song)#Charts and certifications|(11 countries)]] || [[We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song)#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[Weekend (Earth and Fire song)|Weekend]]" || [[Earth and Fire]] || {{Date table sorting|111979}}|November 1979  || n/a || n/a || 1 [[Weekend (Earth and Fire song)#Chart performance|(7 countries)]] || [[Weekend (Earth and Fire song)#Chart performance|See chart performance entry]] 
|-
| "[[Who Listens to the Radio]]" || [[The Sports]] || {{Date table sorting|111979}}|November 1979 || 45 || n/a || 35 (Australia) || ''An original 45 version charted in Australia in November 1978.  The Album version charted in the US a year later''
|-
| "[[You Decorated My Life]]" || [[Kenny Rogers]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 7 || n/a || 7 (United Kingdom) || [[You Decorated My Life|See chart performance entry]]
|-
| "[[You're Only Lonely (song)|You're Only Lonely]]" || [[JD Souther]] || {{Date table sorting|091979}}|September 1979 || 7 || n/a || 7 (United States) || 1 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 2 (Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary) - 12 (Canadian RPM Country Tracks) - 17 (Australia) - 18 (Canadian RPM Top Singles) - 60 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles)
|-
| "[[You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'#Long John Baldry version|You've Lost That Loving Feeling]]" || [[Long John Baldry]] and [[Kathi McDonald]] || {{Date table sorting|061979}}|June 1979 || 89 || n/a || 2 (Australia) || 37 (New Zealand) - 45 (Canada)
|}

===Other Chart hit singles===
{{columns-list|

*"[[Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)]]" – [[The Dickies]] (# 7 UK)
*"[[Bat Out of Hell (song)|Bat Out of Hell]]" – [[Meat Loaf]] ''(# 8 UK)''
*"[[Beautiful People (Australian Crawl song)|Beautiful People]]" – [[Australian Crawl]] ''(# 22 Australia)''
* "[[Bright Side of the Road]]" – [[Van Morrison]] ''(# 63 UK, # 48 Netherlands)'' 
* "[[C'mon Aussie C'mon]]" – [[Mojo (advertising)|The Mojo Singers]] ''(# 1 Australia - originally released in 1978)''
* "[[Choirgirl (song)|Choirgirl]]" – [[Cold Chisel]] ''(# 14 Australia)''
* "[[Dancing Barefoot]]" – [[Patti Smith|Patti Smith Group]] ''(# 39 Netherlands)''
* "[[Death Disco]]" – [[Public Image Ltd.]] ''(# 20 United Kingdom)''
* "[[The Eton Rifles]]" – [[The Jam]] ''(# 3 United Kingdom, # 50 Australia)''
* "[[Freedom's Prisoner]]" – [[Steve Harley]] ''(# 58 UK)''
* "[[Good Times Roll]]" - [[The Cars]] ''(# 41 United States, # 60 US Cash Box Top 100 Singles, # 74 Canada)''
* "[[Here Comes the Summer]]" – [[The Undertones]] ''(# 34 UK)''
* "[[Hersham Boys]]" – [[Sham 69]] ''(# 6 UK)''
* "[[Hit and Run (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons song)|Hit and Run]]" – [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]] (# 12 Australia)
* "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" - [[Jimmy and the Boys]] ''(# 57 Australia)''
* "[[I Do Love You (Billy Stewart song)|I Do Love You]]" – [[GQ (band)|GQ]] ''(# 20 US, # 5 US R&B charts)''
* "[[I Just Can't Be Happy Today]]" – [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]] (# 46 UK)
* "[[I Wanna Be Sedated]]" – [[Ramones]]
* "[[Into the Valley]]" – [[The Skids]] (# 10 UK)
* "[[Jezebel (Jon Stevens song)|Jezebel]] – [[Jon Stevens]] (# 1 New Zealand)
* "[[Jimmy Jimmy (song)|Jimmy Jimmy]]" – [[The Undertones]] (# 16 UK)
* "[[Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)|Just the Way You Are]]" – [[Barry White]]
* "[[Just What I Needed]]" – [[The Cars]]
* "[[Just When I Needed You Most]]" – [[Randy VanWarmer]]
* "[[Lay Your Love on Me]]" – [[Racey]]
* "[[Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale song)|Lead Me On]]" – [[Maxine Nightingale]]
* "[[Let's Go (The Cars song)|Let's Go]]" – [[The Cars]]
* "[[Life During Wartime (song)|Life During Wartime]]" – [[Talking Heads]]
* "[[A Little Bit of Soap|Little Bit of Soap]]" – [[Nigel Olsson]]
* "[[The Logical Song]]" – [[Supertramp]]
* "[[London Calling (song)|London Calling]]" – [[The Clash]]
* "[[Lonesome Loser]]" – [[Little River Band]]
* "[[The Long Run (song)|The Long Run]]" – [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]]
* "[[Lotta Love]]" – [[Nicolette Larson]]
* "[[Love Song (The Damned song)|Love Song]]" – [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
* "[[Lucky Number (song)|Lucky Number]]" – [[Lene Lovich]]
* "[[The Main Event/Fight]]" – [[Barbra Streisand]]
* "[[Make My Dreams a Reality]]" – [[GQ (band)|GQ]]
* "[[Making Plans for Nigel]]" – [[XTC]]
* "[[Mama Can't Buy You Love]]" – [[Elton John]]
* "[[A Message to You, Rudy]]/Nite Klub" – [[The Specials]]
* "[[Message in a Bottle (The Police song)|Message in a Bottle]]" – [[The Police]]
* "[[Milk and Alcohol]]" – [[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]]
* "[[Morning Dance (song)|Morning Dance]]" – [[Spyro Gyra]]
* "[[Moskau (song)|Moskau]]" – [[Dschinghis Khan]]
* "[[Music Box Dancer]]" – [[Frank Mills]]
* "[[My Forbidden Lover]]" – [[Chic (band)|Chic]]
* "[[My Girl (Madness song)|My Girl]]" – [[Madness (band)|Madness]]
* "[[My Life (Billy Joel song)|My Life]]" – [[Billy Joel]]
* "[[Nami Nori Pirates]]"  – [[Pink Lady (band)]]
* "[[Old Time Rock and Roll]]" – [[Bob Seger]]
* "[[Oliver's Army]]" – [[Elvis Costello and the Attractions]]
* "[[On My Radio (song)|On My Radio]]" – [[The Selecter]]
* "[[One Step Beyond (song)|One Step Beyond]]" – [[Madness (band)|Madness]]
* "[[One Way or Another]]" – [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]
* "[[One Way Ticket (Neil Sedaka song)|One Way Ticket]]" – [[Eruption (British band)|Eruption]]
* "[[Ooh Baby Baby]]" – [[Linda Ronstadt]]
* "[[Ooh, Yes I Do]]" – [[Luv']]
* "[[Parisienne Walkways (song)|Parisienne Walkways]]" – [[Gary Moore]]
* "[[Playground Twist]]" – [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]
* "[[Please Don't Go (KC and the Sunshine Band song)|Please Don't Go]]" – [[KC & The Sunshine Band]]
* "[[The Prince (song)|The Prince]]" – [[Madness (band)|Madness]]
* "[[Queen of Hearts (Hank DeVito song)|Queen of Hearts]]"  – [[Dave Edmunds]]
* "[[Questions and Answers (Sham 69 song)|Questions and Answers]]" – [[Sham 69]]
* "[[Rapper's Delight]]" – [[The Sugarhill Gang]] (#36 US: first rap song to hit Billboard's Top 40)
* "[[Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)]]" – [[Ian Dury|Ian Dury & the Blockheads]]
* "[[Refugee (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song)|Refugee]]" – [[Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers]]
* "[[Rock with You]]" – [[Michael Jackson]]
* "[[Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto]]" – [[The Shadows]]
* "[[Roxanne (The Police song)|Roxanne]]" – [[The Police]] ''(released in 1978)''
* "[[Run Like Hell]]" – [[Pink Floyd]]
* "[[Sad Eyes (Robert John song)|Sad Eyes]]" – [[Robert John]]
* "[[Sail On (song)|Sail On]]" – [[Commodores]]
* "[[Shadows in the Moonlight (song)|Shadows in the Moonlight]]" – [[Anne Murray]]
* "[[Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)]]" – [[The Jackson 5|The Jacksons]]
* "[[Shape I'm In (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons song)|Shape I'm In]]" – [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]] 
* "[[She Believes In Me]]" – [[Kenny Rogers]]
* "[[Shine a Little Love]]" – [[Electric Light Orchestra]]
* "[[Ships]]" – [[Barry Manilow]]
* "[[Shivers (The Boys Next Door song)|Shivers]]" - [[The Birthday Party (band)|The Boys Next Door]]
* "[[Since You Been Gone]]" – [[Rainbow (English band)|Rainbow]]
* "[[Slap and Tickle]]" – [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]]
* "[[Smash It Up]]" – [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]]
* "[[Some Girls (Racey song)|Some Girls]]" – [[Racey]]
* "[[Somethin' Else (Eddie Cochran song)|Somethin' Else]]"/"Friggin' in the Riggin'" – [[Sex Pistols]]
* "[[Somewhere in the Night (Helen Reddy song)|Somewhere in the Night]]" – [[Barry Manilow]]
* "[[Song on the Radio]]" – [[Al Stewart]]
* "[[Spiral Scratch]]" – [[Buzzcocks]]
* "[[The Staircase (Mystery)]]" – [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]
* "[[Strange Town]]" – [[The Jam]]
* "[[Street Life (The Crusaders album)|Street Life]]" – [[The Crusaders (Houston group)|The Crusaders]] w/[[Randy Crawford]]
* "[[Stumblin' In]]" – [[Suzi Quatro]] & [[Chris Norman]]
* "[[Sultans of Swing]]" – [[Dire Straits]] (released in 1978)
* "[[Take Me Home (Cher song)|Take Me Home]] – [[Cher]]
* "[[Take On the World (Judas Priest song)|Take On The World]]" – [[Judas Priest]]
* "[[Take the Long Way Home (Supertramp song)|Take The Long Way Home]] – [[Supertramp]]
* "[[Talking in Your Sleep (Crystal Gayle song)|Talking In Your Sleep]]" – [[Crystal Gayle]]
* "[[The Tears of a Clown#The Beat version|Tears of a Clown]]"/"Ranking Full Stop" – [[The Beat (British band)|The Beat]]
* "[[Cavatina (Myers)|Theme from the Deerhunter (Cavatina)]]" – [[The Shadows]]
* "[[Transmission (song)|Transmission]]" – [[Joy Division]]
* "[[Union City Blue]]" – [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]
* "[[Up the Junction (song)|Up the Junction]]" – [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]]
* "[[Up There Cazaly]]" – [[Mike Brady (musician)|The Two Man Band]]
* "[[Video Killed The Radio Star]]" – [[The Buggles]]
* "[[Voulez-Vous (song)|Voulez-Vous]]" – [[ABBA]]
* "[[Waiting for an Alibi]]" – [[Thin Lizzy]]
* "[[We Are Family (Sister Sledge song)|We Are Family]]" – [[Sister Sledge]]
* "[[We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song)|We Don't Talk Anymore]]" – [[Cliff Richard]]
* "[[What I Like About You (The Romantics song)|What I Like About You]]" - [[The Romantics]] ''(Began charting in 1980)'' 
* "[[Whatever You Want (Status Quo song)|Whatever You Want]]" – [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]
* "[[When I Think of You (Leif Garrett song)|When I Think of You]]" – [[Leif Garrett]]
* "[[When You're Young (The Jam song)|When You're Young]]" – [[The Jam]]
* "[[Who Listens to the Radio]]" (Album version) - [[The Sports]] ''(# 35 Australia- original 45) - (# 45 United States - Album version)''
* "[[Wonderful Christmastime]]" – [[Paul McCartney]]
* "[[Y.M.C.A. (song)|Y.M.C.A]]" – [[Village People]]
* "[[You Decorated My Life]]" – [[Kenny Rogers]]
* "[[You Needed Me]]" – [[Anne Murray]] ''(in the UK; hit #1 in the US in 1978)''
* "[[You Take My Breath Away (Rex Smith song)|You Take My Breath Away]]" – [[Rex Smith (entertainer)|Rex Smith]]
* "[[You're a Better Man Than I]]" – [[Sham 69]]
* "[[You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)]]" – [[The Undertones]]
}}

==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]]
}}

==Published popular music==
* "[[Don't Cry Out Loud (song)|Don't Cry Out Loud]]" w. [[Carole Bayer Sager]] m. [[Peter Allen (musician)|Peter Allen]]
* "The Facts of Life" w.m. [[Alan Thicke]], [[Gloria Loring]], and [[Al Burton]], from the [[The Facts of Life (TV series)|TV series of the same name]]
* "I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love" w.m. [[Carole Bayer Sager]] & [[Peter Allen (musician)|Peter Allen]]
* "[[Knots Landing]] theme" m. [[Jerrold Immel]]
* "[[The Rainbow Connection]]" w.m. Kenny Ascher & [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]], from the film ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''
* "[[Sultans of Swing]]" w.m. [[Mark Knopfler]]

==Classical music==
* [[Arno Babadjanian]] – Third String Quartet
* [[Milton Babbitt]]
**''An Elizabethan Sextette'', for six female voices
**''Images'', for saxophone and tape
**''Paraphrases'', for ten instruments
* [[Osvaldas Balakauskas]] – Symphony No. 2
* [[Pascal Bentoiu]] – Symphony No. 5, Op. 26 
* [[Luciano Berio]] – ''Scena''
* [[Harrison Birtwistle]] – ''... agm ...'', for sixteen voices and three instrumental ensembles
* [[John Cage]]
**''Hymns and Variations'', for twelve amplified voices
**''[[Roaratorio]]'' for tape
* [[George Crumb]]
** ''Apparition'' for soprano and amplified piano
** ''[[Makrokosmos#Volume IV|Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV)]]'' for amplified piano (four hands)
** ''Star-Child'' (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
* [[Mario Davidovsky]] – ''Pennplay'' for sixteen players
* [[Peter Maxwell Davies]]
**''Black Pentecost'', for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra, Op. 82
**''Kirkwall Shopping Songs'', for young voices and instruments, Op. 85
**Nocturne, for alto flute solo, Op. 84
**''Quiet Memory of Bob Jennings'', for violin, viola, and cello, WoO 135
**''Salome'', concert suite from the ballet, Op. 80b
**''Solstice of Light'', cantata for tenor, SATB chorus, and organ, Op. 83
* [[Morton Feldman]]
**String Quartet No. 1
**''Violin and Orchestra''
* [[Hugh Flynn]] – ''Birds''
* [[Philip Glass]]
**''Dance'' (Dances 1, 3 and 5, with [[Lucinda Childs]] and [[Sol LeWitt]]), for ensemble
**''Mad Rush'', for piano or electric organ
* [[Alexander Goehr]]
**''Babylon the Great Is Fallen'', cantata, Op. 40
**Chaconne for organ, Op. 34a
**''Das Gesetz der Quadrille'', Op. 41
**Sinfonia, Op. 42
* [[Cristóbal Halffter]]
**''Officium defunctuorum'', for orchestra and chorus
**Violin Concerto No. 1
* [[Jacques Hétu]] – Bassoon Concerto
* [[Vagn Holmboe]]
** Violin Concerto No. 2
** ''Notater'' for 3 trombones (alto, tenor, baritone) and tuba
** ''Konstateringer'' for choir
** Guitar Sonata No. 1
** Guitar Sonata No. 2
** Accordion Sonata No. 1
** ''Bogtrykkemaskinen'' for violin and piano
* [[Miloslav Kabelac]] – ''Metamorphoses II'', for piano and orchestra, Op. 58
* [[Wojciech Kilar]] –
**''Fanfare'' for mixed choir and orchestra
**''Hoary Fog'' (''Siwa mgła''), for baritone and orchestra
* [[Witold Lutosławski]] – ''Novelette'' for orchestra
* [[William Lloyd Webber]] – ''[[Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae]]''
* [[Tomás Marco]]
**''Aria de la batalla'', for organ
**''Tartessos'', for four percussionists 
* [[Richard Meale]] – ''Viridian'', for orchestra
* [[Paul Moravec]]
** ''Ave Verum Corpus'', for SATB chorus
** ''Missa Miserere'', for SATB chorus and orchestra
** ''Pater Noster'', for SATB chorus
* [[Ștefan Niculescu]] – ''Sincronie'' for flute, oboe and bassoon
* [[Allan Pettersson]] – Viola Concerto
* [[Steve Reich]]
**[[Eight Lines|Octet]]
**''[[Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards]]''
* [[R. Murray Schafer]]
**''Beauty and the Beast'', from ''Patria 3'', for alto with masks and string quartet
**''Felix's Girls'', from ''Patria 3'', for SATB quartet or choir
**''Gamelan'', from ''Patria 3'', for SATB, SASA, or TBTB solo quartet or choir
**''Hear Me Out'' from ''Patria 3'', for four speaking voices
**''Music for Wilderness Lake'', for twelve trombones and small rural lake
**''Ontario Variations on a theme by Jack Behrens'' (one variation), for piano, contribution to collective work by Ontario composers
* [[Peter Sculthorpe]]
**Four Little Pieces, for piano duet
**''Mangrove'', for orchestra
**Requiem, for cello alone
* [[Denis Smalley]] – ''The Pulses of Time'', electronic music
* [[Roger Smalley]] – String Quartet
* [[Michael Tippett]] – Triple Concerto for violin, viola, and cello
* [[Anatol Vieru]]
**Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra
**''Iosif si fratii sai'', for eleven instruments and tape
* [[Malcolm Williamson]] – ''Fanfarade'', for orchestra
* [[Charles Wuorinen]]
**''Fortune'', for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
**''Joan's'', for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
**''The Magic Art'', instrumental masque, for chamber orchestra
**Percussion Duo, for mallet instruments and piano
**Psalm 39, for baritone and guitar
**String Quartet No. 2
**Three Songs, for tenor and piano
* [[Iannis Xenakis]]
**''Anémoessa'', for SATB chorus of 42 or 84 voices and orchestra
**''Dikhthas'', for violin and piano
**''[[Palimpsest (Xenakis)|Palimpsest]]'', for cor anglais, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, and string quintet

==Opera==
* [[Peter Maxwell Davies]]
**''Cinderella'', Op. 87
**''The Lighthouse'', Op. 86
* [[Hossein Dehlavi]] – ''[[Mana and Mani]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.mehrnews.com/news/108280/Maestro-s-wife-to-honor-him-with-academy|title=Maestro's wife to honor him with academy|date=30 June 2015|website=Mehr News Agency|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref> 
* [[Libby Larsen]] – ''The Silver Fox''
* [[Roger Smalley]] – ''William Derrincourt'' (Perth, 31 August)

==Jazz==
{{Main|1979 in jazz}}

==Musical theatre==
* ''[[Ain't Misbehavin' (Broadway show)|Ain't Misbehavin']]'' (Music: [[Fats Waller]], Lyrics: Various Book: [[Murray Horwitz]] & [[Richard Maltby, Jr.]]). [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at [[Her Majesty's Theatre]] on March 22.
* ''[[Carmelina]]'' (Book: [[Alan Jay Lerner]] & [[Joseph Stein]] Lyrics: [[Alan Jay Lerner]] Music: [[Burton Lane]]) Broadway production opened at the [[St. James Theatre]] on April 8 and ran for 17 performances.  Starring [[Georgia Brown (English singer)|Georgia Brown]] and [[Cesare Siepi]]
* ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'' (Music: [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], Lyrics and Book: [[Tim Rice]]). Broadway production opened at [[the Broadway Theatre]] on September 25 and ran for 1567 performances
* ''[[The King and I]]'' London revival opened at the [[London Palladium|Palladium]] on June 12 and ran for 538 performances
* ''[[My Old Friends]]'' (Music, Lyrics and Book: [[Mel Mandel]] and [[Norman Sachs]]). Off-Broadway production opened at the [[Orpheum Theatre (East Village, New York)|Orpheum Theatre]] on January 12 and transferred to the [[22 Steps Theatre]] on Broadway on April 12 for a total run of 154 performances.
* ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' (Music: [[Richard Rodgers]], Lyrics and Book: [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]) – Broadway revival opened at the [[Palace Theatre (New York City)|Palace Theatre]] on December 13 and ran for 310 performances
* ''[[Works based on Peter Pan|Peter Pan]]'' (Music: [[Mark Charlap]], Lyrics and Book: [[Carolyn Leigh]] with additional songs, Music: [[Jule Styne]] and Lyrics: [[Betty Comden]] & [[Adolph Green]]).  Broadway revival opened at the [[Lunt-Fontanne Theatre]] on September 6 and ran for 551 performances.
* ''[[Saravà]]'' (Music: [[Mitch Leigh]], Lyrics and Book: [[N. Richard Nash]]).  Broadway production opened at the [[Mark Hellinger Theatre]] on February 23 and ran for 140 performances
* ''[[Sugar Babies (musical)|Sugar Babies]]'' Broadway revue opened at the [[Mark Hellinger Theatre]] on October 8 and ran for 1208 performances.
* ''[[Sweeney Todd (musical)|Sweeney Todd]]'' (Music and Lyrics: [[Stephen Sondheim]], Book: [[Hugh Wheeler]]) – Broadway production opened at the [[Uris Theatre]] on March 1 and ran for 557 performances
* ''[[They're Playing Our Song]]'' (Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]], Lyrics: [[Carole Bayer Sager]], Book: [[Neil Simon]]). Broadway production opened at the [[Imperial Theatre (Broadway)|Imperial Theatre]] on February 11 and ran for 1082 performances
* ''[[Tommy (rock opera)|Tommy]]'' London production opened at [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] on February 6 and ran for 118 performances
* ''[[The Venetian Twins (musical comedy)|The Venetian Twins]]'' (Music: [[Terence Clarke (composer)|Terence Clarke]], Lyrics and Book: [[Nick Enright]]). Opened at the [[Sydney Opera House]] Drama Theatre on October 26.
* ''[[Whoopee!|Whoopee]]'' (Music: [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]], Lyrics: [[Gus Kahn]], Book: [[William Anthony McGuire]]). Broadway revival opened at the [[ANTA Theatre]] on February 14 and ran for 212 performances.

==Musical films==
* ''[[All That Jazz (film)|All That Jazz]]''
* ''[[Balada pro banditu]]''
* ''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]''
* ''[[Metamorphoses (1978 film)|Metamorphoses]]''
* ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''
* ''[[The Music Machine (film)|The Music Machine]]''
* ''[[Very Blue Beard|Ochen sinjaja boroda]]'' (animation)
* ''[[Oolkatal]]''
* ''[[Radio On]]''
* ''[[Rock 'n' Roll High School]]''
* ''[[Roller Boogie]]''
* ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]''
* ''[[Schlager (film)|Schlager]]''
* ''[[Skatetown, U.S.A.]]''

==Births==
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Brody Dalle]], Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist 
** [[Koichi Domoto]], Japanese singer-songwriter and actor 
* [[January 3]] - [[Koit Toome]], Estonian actor and singer 
* [[January 5]] – [[Kathleen Edwards]], Canadian singer/musician
* [[January 7]] – [[Aloe Blacc]],  American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman, and philanthropist
* [[January 10]] – [[Kris Kross|Christopher Smith]], singer-songwriter (Kris Kross)
* [[January 11]] – [[Siti Nurhaliza]], Malaysian singer
* [[January 16]] – [[Aaliyah|Aaliyah Haughton]], American singer, actress, and model (d.{{nbsp}}2001)
* [[January 20]]
** [[Linkin Park|Rob Bourdon]] (Linkin Park)
** [[Will Young]], British singer
** [[Joel Pott]], English musician, producer and songwriter ([[Shura]], [[George Ezra]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Nam Hyun-joon]], South Korean dancer, rapper and singer 
* [[January 31]] - [[Kim E-Z]], South Korean singer ([[Baby Vox]])
* [[February 1]] 
** [[Valentín Elizalde]], Regional Mexican singer
** [[Jason Isbell]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist ([[Drive-By Truckers]])
** [[Julie Roberts]], American country singer-songwriter
* [[February 10]] – [[Daryl Palumbo]], American musician who fronted bands such as [[Glassjaw]]
* [[February 11]] – [[Brandy Norwood]], American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress
* [[February 12]] – [[Jade Jones (singer)|Jade Jones]], British singer and chef, Emma Bunton's partner
* [[February 14]] – [[Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi]], South African operatic and concert soprano
* [[February 15]] – [[Adam Granduciel]], American musician
* [[February 16]] - [[Eric Mun]], South Korean rapper ([[Shinhwa]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]],  American actress, television producer, director, singer-songwriter, and author\
*[[February 22]] - [[Jessica Kiper]] ({{aka}} "Sugar"), American actress, singer, reality TV star and actress
* [[February 26]] – [[Corinne Bailey Rae]], British singer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist
* [[March 4]]
** Merrill Garbus, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, activist, art-pop musician ([[Tune-Yards]]) 
** [[Jon Fratelli]], Scottish singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist ([[The Fratellis]]) 
* [[March 7]] – [[Amanda Somerville]],  American singer-songwriter and vocal coach
* [[March 8]] – [[Tom Chaplin]], British singer ([[Keane (band)|Keane]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Oscar Isaac]],  Guatemalan-American actor and musician (''[[Sucker Punch (2011 film)|Sucker Punch]]'', The Blinking Underdogs, [[Inside Llewyn Davis]]) 
* [[March 11]]
** <!--March 11-->[[Benji Madden]], American lead guitar for [[Good Charlotte]]
** <!--March 11-->[[Joel Madden]], American lead vocals for Good Charlotte
* [[March 14]] – [[Jacques Brautbar]] ([[Phantom Planet]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Adam Levine]], American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and record producer (Maroon 5)
* [[March 20]] – [[Sean Garrett]], American musical producer, musician, songwriter ([[Britney Spears]], [[Beyoncé]], [[Ciara]]) 
* [[March 23]] – [[Ariel Rechtshaid]], American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter
* [[March 27]] - [[Lee Ji-hoon (entertainer)|Lee Ji-hoon]], South Korean singer ([[S]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Shakib Khan]], Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser, and media personality
* [[March 30]] – [[Norah Jones]], American singer-songwriter, pianist
* [[April 1]] – [[Mikko Franck]], Finnish violinist and conductor
* [[April 2]] – [[Jesse Carmichael]], American instrumentalist
* [[April 6]] - [[Richard Jones (The Feeling)|Richard Jones]], British music producer, songwriter, bass guitar player and founding member of the rock band [[The Feeling]]
* [[April 8]] – [[Alexi Laiho]],  Finnish guitarist, composer, and vocalist (d.{{nbsp}}2020)
* [[April 10]] – [[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]], British singer-songwriter and dancer
* [[April 11]]
** [[Danielle de Niese]], Australian-American lyric soprano
** [[The All-American Rejects|Chris Gaylor]], drummer (The All-American Rejects)
** [[Sebastien Grainger]] ([[Death from Above 1979]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Tony Lundon]] ([[Liberty X]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Quinn Weng]], Taiwanese-Canadian mezzo-soprano singer ([[Seraphim (band)|Seraphim]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Anwar Robinson]], American singer
* [[April 22]] – [[Daniel Johns]], Australian musician, singer, and songwriter ([[Silverchair]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Jo O'Meara]], English singer and actress ([[S Club 7]])
** [[Bloc Party|Matt Tong]], drummer (Bloc Party)
* [[May 4]] – [[Lance Bass]], American singer,  dancer, actor, film, and television producer, and author ([['N Sync]])
* [[May 9]] 
** [[Ara Mina]], Filipino actress and singer
** [[Andrew W.K.]], American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer
** [[Matt Morris (musician)|Matt Morris]],  American singer, producer, actor, and songwriter
* [[May 10]] - [[Lee Hyori]], South Korean singer ([[Fin.K.L]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Mickey Madden]], American bassist
* [[May 14]] – [[Dan Auerbach]], American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer ([[The Black Keys]], [[Patrick Carney]])
* [[May 16]] - [[Lee Hee-jin]], South Korean singer ([[Baby Vox]])
* [[May 19]] - [[Shooter Jennings]], American singer-songwriter and musician 
* [[May 21]] – [[Sonja Vectomov]], Czech-Finnish musical artist
* [[May 29]] – [[Scribe (rapper)|Scribe]], New Zealand hip hop rapper and recording artist of Samoan descent
* [[June 5]] – [[Pete Wentz]], American musician, multi-instrumentalist, writer, mental health advocate, and songwriter (Fall Out Boy) 
* [[June 8]] – [[Derek Trucks]], guitarist, songwriter
* [[June 12]] – [[Robyn]], Swedish singer, songwriter, and record producer
* [[June 17]] – [[Young Maylay]], American rapper, producer, and voice actor
* [[June 18]] – [[Ivana Wong]], Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
* [[June 19]] – [[Robby De Sá]], South African musician, music producer, and instrumentalist
* [[June 26]] – [[Ryan Tedder]], American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer ([[OneRepublic]], Hilary Duff, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez) 
* [[June 29]] – [[Abz Love]], singer ([[5ive]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Dumas (musician)|Dumas]], Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* [[July 5]] – [[Shane Filan]], Irish singer and songwriter ([[Westlife]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Matthew Barnson]], American viola player and composer
* [[July 9]] – [[Ella Koon]], Hong Kong singer and actress
* [[July 13]] – [[Ladyhawke (musician)|Ladyhawke]], New Zealand born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist 
* [[July 15]] – [[Laura Benanti]], American actress and singer 
* [[July 16]] – [[Ivan Tásler]]
* [[July 17]] – [[Solé]], American rapper
* [[July 19]] - [[Michelle Heaton]], English singer ([[Liberty X]])
* [[July 25]] – Amy Adams, singer
* [[July 26]] – [[Tamyra Gray]], singer
* [[July 28]] - [[Lee Min-woo]], South Korean singer ([[Shinhwa]])
*[[August 7]] - [[Gangsta Boo]], American rapper (d.{{nbsp}}2023)
* [[August 13]] – [[Amiel Daemion]], American-Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress
* [[August 15]] - [[Jon Hopkins]], an English musician and producer who writes and performs electronic music. H
* [[August 16]] - [[Brian Ormond]], Irish singer
* [[August 20]] – [[Jamie Cullum]], English jazz-pop singer-songwriter, pianist
* [[August 21]] – [[Kelis]], American singer-songwriter and chef
* [[August 23]] – [[Ritchie Neville]], singer ([[5ive]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Jon Siebels]], guitarist ([[Eve 6]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], film composer and singer
* [[September 3]] – [[Jason McCaslin]], bass guitarist ([[Sum 41]])
* [[September 4]] - [[MC Mong]], South Korean rapper
* [[September 6]] – [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]], American rapper, model, and actress
* [[September 8]] – [[Pink (singer)|Pink]], American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, and activist
* [[September 10]] - [[MayBee]], South Korean singer
* [[September 16]] – [[Flo Rida]], American rapper and singer
* [[September 21]]
** [[Maija Kovaļevska]], Latvian soprano opera singer
** [[Jericho Rosales]], Filipino entertainer
* [[September 22]] – [[Emilie Autumn]], American violinist, singer, poet, mental health advocate, and songwriter
* [[September 24]] – [[Julia Clarete]], Filipina singer, actress, performer, television personality, and former host of ''[[Eat Bulaga!]]''
* [[September 27]] – [[Barbara Kanam]], Congolese singer
* [[October 3]] – [[Josh Klinghoffer]], guitarist, ([[Red Hot Chili Peppers]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Alex Greenwald]], vocals, rhythm guitar for [[Phantom Planet]]
* [[October 10]] – [[Mýa]], American recording artist, songwriter, and actress
* [[October 12]] – [[Jordan Pundik]], lead vocals for [[New Found Glory]]
* [[October 15]]
** [[Jaci Velasquez]], Latin pop singer
** [[Yoav (musician)|Yoav]],  singer-songwriter of Israeli-Romanian descent, raised in South Africa
* [[October 18]] – [[Ne-Yo]], American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, television host/judge, and actor ([[Jennifer Lopez]], Rihanna, World Of Dance) 
* [[October 24]] – [[Ben Gillies]], Australian drummer ([[Silverchair]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Bat for Lashes]], English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
* [[November 2]] - [[Skull]], South Korean reggae singer
* [[November 7]] – [[Jon Peter Lewis]], American singer
* [[November 9]] – [[Nicolas Koeckert]], German violinist
* [[November 10]] – [[Chris Joannou]], Australian musician, bass guitar for Silverchair
* [[November 21]] - [[Kim Dong-wan]], South Korean singer ([[Shinhwa]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Scott Robinson (singer)|Scott Robinson]], singer ([[5ive]])
* [[November 27]] - [[Shin Hye-sung]], South Korean singer and songwriter
* [[November 28]] – [[Chamillionaire]], American rapper
* [[Daniel Henney]], American actor
* [[November 29]] – [[The Game (rapper)|The Game]], American rapper
* [[December 3]] – [[Daniel Bedingfield]], English-New Zealand singer, songwriter, and record producer
* [[December 7]] – [[Sara Bareilles]], American singer-songwriter, actress, and author.
* [[December 14]] – [[Sophie Monk]],  Australian singer, songwriter, actress, model, and radio personality
* [[December 15]] 
** [[Alex Solowitz]], American actor, composer, singer, dancer, and producer ([[2gether (band)|2gether]])
** [[Adam Brody]], American actor, writer, musician, and producer ([[Leighton Meester]], [[Big Japan]]) 
** [[Edele Lynch]], Irish singer ([[B*Witched]])
** [[Keavy Lynch]], Irish singer ([[B*Witched]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Chris Daughtry]],  American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor
* [[December 28]] – [[Zach Hill]], American multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, ([[Death Grips]], [[The I.L.Y's]], [[Hella (band)|Hella]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Yelawolf]], American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
* [[December 31]] – [[Bob Bryar]], American retired musician, drummer ([[My Chemical Romance]])
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** [[Ingrid Michaelson]], American singer-songwriter, actress, and activist
** [[Ms. Jade]], American rapper

==Deaths==
* [[January 5]] – [[Charles Mingus]], jazz musician, 56<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bob Macken|author2=Peter Fornatale|author3=Bill Ayres|title=The Rock Music Source Book|url=https://archive.org/details/rockmusicsourceb00mack|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1980|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0-385-14139-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/rockmusicsourceb00mack/page/631 631]}}</ref>
* [[January 13]]
** [[Donny Hathaway]], singer, 33 (injuries from fall)<ref>{{cite book
| first    = John
| last     = Tobler
| year     = 1992
| title    = NME Rock 'N' Roll Years
| edition  = 1st
| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd
| location = London
| page     = 322
| id       = CN 5585}}</ref>
** [[Marjorie Lawrence]], operatic soprano, 71<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100013b.htm|chapter=Lawrence, Marjorie Florence (1907–1979)|title=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]|publisher=[[Melbourne University Press]]|last=Griffin|first=Helga M.|pages=14–15|volume=10|location=[[Melbourne, Victoria|Melbourne, Vic]]|year=1986|access-date=30 June 2009}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – [[Sid Vicious]], punk rocker, 21<ref>{{cite web|last1=Medina|first1=David|last2=Lombardi|first2=Frank|title=Punk rocker Sid Vicious dies of an overdose in 1979|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/punk-rocker-sid-vicious-dies-heroin-1979-article-1.2096835|website=New York Daily News|publisher=nydailynews.com|access-date=6 May 2017|date=1 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – [[Mike Patto]], rock singer, 36 (cancer)
* [[March 5]] – [[Alan Crofoot]], operatic tenor and host of ''Mr Piper'', 49 (suicide)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RHJkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2764,3763147&dq=alan+crofoot+death&hl=en|title=Alcohol, medication may have led to tenor's suicide|date=March 7, 1979|work=The Calgary Herald|page=B18|access-date=February 6, 2013}}</ref> 
* [[March 13]] – [[Harrison Keller]], US violinist and music teacher, 90<ref>''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', Seventh Edition, Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1984, page 1178</ref>
* [[March 22]] – [[Walter Legge]], record producer, 72<ref>{{cite book|author1=Walter Legge|author2=Alan Sanders|title=Walter Legge: words and music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FY4IAQAAMAAJ|date=21 May 1998|publisher=Duckworth|isbn=978-0-7156-2774-7|page=255}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Antonio Brosa]], violinist, 84<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley Sadie|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l10NAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|isbn=978-0-333-23111-1|page=335}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Ernst Glaser]], Norwegian violinist, conductor and music teacher, 75
* [[April 10]] – [[Nino Rota]], composer, 67 (coronary thrombosis)<ref>{{cite book|author1=F. Maurice Speed|author2=Speed|title=Film Review: 1979–1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jeia-Mi28JwC|date=1 November 1979|publisher=Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8015-2632-9|page=168}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – [[Maria Caniglia]], operatic soprano, 73<ref>{{cite book|author=Lanfranco Rasponi|title=The Last Prima Donnas|publisher=Limelight Editions|year=1985|isbn=9780879100407|page=245}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] – [[Julia Perry]], composer and conductor, 55
* [[May 1]] – [[Bronislav Gimpel]], violinist, 68
* [[May 9]] – [[Zoltán Kelemen (baritone)|Zoltán Kelemen]], operatic bass-baritone, 53
* [[May 11]] – [[Lester Flatt]], bluegrass musician, 64
* [[May 21]] – [[Blue Mitchell]], trumpeter, 49
* [[May 26]] - [[Stefano Ballarini]], baritone, 76<ref>Stephan Ballarini in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014</ref><ref>Stephan Ballarini in the Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877-1998</ref>
* [[June 5]] – [[Jack Haley]], actor, singer (''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|Wizard of Oz]]'') 80
* [[June 21]] – [[Angus MacLise]], American drummer and songwriter ([[Velvet Underground]] and [[Theatre of Eternal Music]]), 41 ([[hypoglycemia]] and pulmonary [[tuberculosis]])<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p42603/biography|pure_url=yes}} allmusic "Angus MacLise"]</ref>
* [[June 29]] – [[Lowell George]], singer, songwriter and guitarist, founder of [[Little Feat]], 34 (heart attack)
* [[July 3]] – [[Louis Durey]], composer, 91
* [[July 6]] – [[Van McCoy]], singer, 39 (heart attack)
* [[July 12]] – [[Minnie Riperton]], singer, 31 (breast cancer)
* [[July 14]] – [[Pedro Flores (composer)|Pedro Flores]], composer, 85
* [[July 16]] – [[Alfred Deller]], countertenor, 67
* [[August 19]] – [[Dorsey Burnette]], Rockabilly singer, 46 (heart attack)
* [[August 25]] – [[Stan Kenton]], bandleader, 67
* [[September 2]] – [[Jacques Février]], pianist, 79
* [[September 6]] – [[Guy Bolton]], English librettist, 94
* [[September 22]] – [[Richard Nibley]], violinist, 66
* [[September 27]]
** [[Gracie Fields]], actress and singer, 81
** [[Jimmy McCulloch]], guitarist ([[Wings (band)|Wings]]), 26
* [[October 1]] – [[Roy Harris]], composer, 81
* [[October 13]] – [[Rebecca Helferich Clarke]], viola player and composer, 93<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Greene|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|location=London|publisher=Collins|year=1986|page=1164|isbn=978-0-00434-363-1}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] – [[Nadia Boulanger]], French composer, conductor, and music teacher, 92<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Lavezzoli|title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|location=London|publisher=Continuum|year=2007|isbn=978-0-82642-819-6|page=126}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] – [[Germaine Lubin]], operatic soprano, 89
* [[November 11]] – [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], film composer and conductor, 85
* [[November 13]] – [[Freda Betti]], French mezzo-soprano opera singer, 55
* [[November 17]] – [[John Glascock]], rock bassist, 28
* [[November 23]] – [[Judee Sill]], singer-songwriter, 35
* [[November 30]] – [[Joyce Grenfell]], actress and singer-songwriter, 69
* [[December 21]] – [[Nansi Richards]], harpist, 91
* [[December 30]] – [[Richard Rodgers]], composer and songwriter, 77

==Awards==
* [[Grammy Awards of 1979]]
* [[1979 Country Music Association Awards]]
* [[Eurovision Song Contest 1979]]
* [[Japan Music Awards]]
* [[21st Japan Record Awards]]

==See also==
* [[:Category:Record labels established in 1979|Record labels established in 1979]]
* [[1979 in music (UK)]]

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1979 in music| ]]
[[Category:20th century in music]]
[[Category:Music by year]]