These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980. The two longest running number-one singles of 1980 are "Call Me" by Blondie and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers with each single obtaining six weeks on top of the chart. Every song that went to number one for 1980 stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 over 20 weeks.[citation needed]
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That year, six acts hit number one for the first time, such as Queen, Pink Floyd, Lipps Inc., Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Rogers. John Lennon was the fourth artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in December 1980.
The British rock band Queen was the only act to achieve multiple number-one songs during the year with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust".
Chart history
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1980 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles. |
No. | Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
480 | January 5 | "Please Don't Go" | KC and the Sunshine Band | [1] |
re | January 12 | "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" | Rupert Holmes | [2] |
481 | January 19 | "Rock with You" | Michael Jackson | [3] |
January 26 | [4] | |||
February 2 | [5] | |||
February 9 | [6] | |||
482 | February 16 | "Do That to Me One More Time" | Captain & Tennille | [7] |
483 | February 23 | "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Queen | [8] |
March 1 | [9] | |||
March 8 | [10] | |||
March 15 | [11] | |||
484 | March 22 | "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" | Pink Floyd | [12] |
March 29 | [13] | |||
April 5 | [14] | |||
April 12 | [15] | |||
485 | April 19 | "Call Me" | Blondie | [16][17] |
April 26 | [18] | |||
May 3 | [19] | |||
May 10 | [20] | |||
May 17 | [21] | |||
May 24 | [22] | |||
486 | May 31 | "Funkytown" | Lipps Inc. | [23] |
June 7 | [24] | |||
June 14 | [25] | |||
June 21 | [26] | |||
487 | June 28 | "Coming Up" | Paul McCartney | [27] |
July 5 | [28] | |||
July 12 | [29] | |||
488 | July 19 | "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" | Billy Joel | [30] |
July 26 | [31] | |||
489 | August 2 | "Magic" | Olivia Newton-John | [32] |
August 9 | [33] | |||
August 16 | [34] | |||
August 23 | [35] | |||
490 | August 30 | "Sailing" | Christopher Cross | [36] |
491 | September 6 | "Upside Down" | Diana Ross | [37] |
September 13 | [38] | |||
September 20 | [39] | |||
September 27 | [40] | |||
492 | October 4 | "Another One Bites the Dust" | Queen | [41] |
October 11 | [42] | |||
October 18 | [43] | |||
493 | October 25 | "Woman in Love" | Barbra Streisand | [44] |
November 1 | [45] | |||
November 8 | [46] | |||
494 | November 15 | "Lady" | Kenny Rogers | [47] |
November 22 | [48] | |||
November 29 | [49] | |||
December 6 | [50] | |||
December 13 | [51] | |||
December 20 | [52] | |||
495 | December 27 | "(Just Like) Starting Over" | John Lennon | [53] |
Number-one artists
Position | Artist | Weeks at No. 1 |
---|---|---|
1 | Queen | 7 |
2 | Blondie | 6 |
Kenny Rogers | ||
4 | Michael Jackson | 4 |
Pink Floyd | ||
Lipps Inc. | ||
Olivia Newton-John | ||
Diana Ross | ||
9 | Paul McCartney | 3 |
Barbra Streisand | ||
11 | Billy Joel | 2 |
12 | KC and the Sunshine Band | 1 |
Rupert Holmes | ||
Captain & Tennille | ||
Christopher Cross | ||
John Lennon |
See also
References
Additional sources
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