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List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1980

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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 twenty weeks.[citation needed]

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1980 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
Issue Date Song Artist(s) Reference
January 5 "Please Don't Go" KC and the Sunshine Band [1]
January 12 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes [2]
January 19 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson [3]
January 26 [4]
February 2 [5]
February 9 [6]
February 16 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille [7]
February 23 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen [8]
March 1 [9]
March 8 [10]
March 15 [11]
March 22 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd [12]
March 29 [13]
April 5 [14]
April 12 [15]
April 19 "Call Me"[16] Blondie [17]
April 26 [18]
May 3 [19]
May 10 [20]
May 17 [21]
May 24 [22]
May 31 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc [23]
June 7 [24]
June 14 [25]
June 21 [26]
June 28 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney [27]
July 5 [28]
July 12 [29]
July 19 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel [30]
July 26 [31]
August 2 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John [32]
August 9 [33]
August 16 [34]
August 23 [35]
August 30 "Sailing" Christopher Cross [36]
September 6 "Upside Down" Diana Ross [37]
September 13 [38]
September 20 [39]
September 27 [40]
October 4 "Another One Bites the Dust" Queen [41]
October 11 [42]
October 18 [43]
October 25 "Woman in Love" Barbra Streisand [44]
November 1 [45]
November 8 [46]
November 15 "Lady" Kenny Rogers [47]
November 22 [48]
November 29 [49]
December 6 [50]
December 13 [51]
December 20 [52]
December 27 "(Just Like) Starting Over" John Lennon [53]

References

  1. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-01-05/hot-100
  2. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-01-12/hot-100
  3. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-01-19/hot-100
  4. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-01-26/hot-100
  5. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-02-02/hot-100
  6. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-02-09/hot-100
  7. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-02-16/hot-100
  8. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-02-23/hot-100
  9. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-03-01/hot-100
  10. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-03-08/hot-100
  11. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-03-15/hot-100
  12. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-03-22/hot-100
  13. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-03-29/hot-100
  14. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-04-05/hot-100
  15. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-04-12/hot-100
  16. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blondie-mn0000044764/awards
  17. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-04-19/hot-100
  18. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-04-26/hot-100
  19. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-05-03/hot-100
  20. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-05-10/hot-100
  21. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-05-17/hot-100
  22. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-05-24/hot-100
  23. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-05-31/hot-100
  24. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-06-07/hot-100
  25. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-06-14/hot-100
  26. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-06-21/hot-100
  27. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-06-28/hot-100
  28. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-07-05/hot-100
  29. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-07-12/hot-100
  30. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-07-19/hot-100
  31. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-07-26/hot-100
  32. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-08-02/hot-100
  33. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-08-09/hot-100
  34. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-08-16/hot-100
  35. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-08-23/hot-100
  36. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-08-30/hot-100
  37. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-09-06/hot-100
  38. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-09-13/hot-100
  39. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-09-20/hot-100
  40. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-09-27/hot-100
  41. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-10-04/hot-100
  42. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-10-11/hot-100
  43. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-10-18/hot-100
  44. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-10-25/hot-100
  45. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-11-01/hot-100
  46. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-11-08/hot-100
  47. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-11-15/hot-100
  48. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-11-22/hot-100
  49. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-11-29/hot-100
  50. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-12-06/hot-100
  51. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-12-13/hot-100
  52. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-12-20/hot-100
  53. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/1980-12-27/hot-100

Additional sources

  • Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
  • Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
  • Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
  • Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

See also