These are the Billboards Disco number-one hits of 1979.
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!Issue date
!Song
!Artist
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|January 6
|"Le Freak"/<br>"I Want Your Love"/<br>"Chic Cheer"
|Chic
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|January 13
|"Contact"
|Edwin Starr
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|January 20
|Fly Away (all cuts)
|Voyage
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|January 27
|rowspan="3"|"I Will Survive"/<br>"Substitute"/<br>"Anybody Wanna Party?"/<br>"I Said Yes"
|rowspan="3"|Gloria Gaynor
|-
|February 3
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|February 10
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|February 17
|"Keep on Dancin'"/<br>"Do It at the Disco"/<br>"Let's Lovedance Tonight"
|Gary's Gang
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|February 24
|rowspan="3"|"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
|rowspan="3"|Rod Stewart
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|March 3
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|March 10
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|March 17
|"I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)"
|Instant Funk
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|March 24
|rowspan="2"|"We Are Family"/<br>"He's the Greatest Dancer"/<br>"Lost in Music"
|rowspan="2"|Sister Sledge
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|March 31
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|April 7
|rowspan="6"|"Dancer"/<br>"Dance to Dance"
|rowspan="6"|Gino Soccio
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|April 14
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|April 21
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|April 28
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|May 5
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|May 12
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|May 19
|"Ring My Bell"
|Anita Ward
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|May 26
|rowspan="7"|Bad Girls (all cuts)
|rowspan="7"|Donna Summer
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|June 2
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|June 9
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|June 16
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|June 23
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|June 30
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|July 7
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|July 14
|rowspan="3"|"Born to Be Alive"
|rowspan="3"|Patrick Hernandez
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|July 21
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|July 28
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|August 4
|"I've Got the Next Dance"
|Deniece Williams
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|August 11
|"This Time Baby"
|Jackie Moore
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|August 18
|"Here Comes That Sound Again"
|Love De-Luxe
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|August 25
|rowspan="2"|The Boss (all cuts)
|rowspan="2"|Diana Ross
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|September 1
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|September 8
|rowspan="2"|"Found a Cure"/<br>"Stay Free"/<br>"Nobody Knows"
|rowspan="2"|Ashford & Simpson
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|September 15
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|September 22
|rowspan="3"|"Come to Me"/<br>"Don't Stop Dancing"/<br>"Playboy"
|rowspan="3"|France Joli
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|September 29
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|October 6
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|October 13
|rowspan="4"|"Move On Up"/<br>"Up Up Up"/<br>"Destination's Theme"
|rowspan="4"|Destination
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|October 20
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|October 27
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|November 3
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|November 10
|"Harmony"/<br>"Ooh, La La"
|Suzi Lane
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|November 17
|"Beat of the Night"/<br>"Pump It Up"
|Fever
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|November 24
|rowspan="4"|"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
|rowspan="4"|Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
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|December 1
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|December 8
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|December 15
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|December 22
|rowspan="2"|"Deputy of Love"
|rowspan="2"|Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
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|December 29
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See also
- 1979 in music
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
References
- Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1975—1979.