List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1980

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
File:Queen – montagem – new.png
Queen scored two #1 hits with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" in 1980.
File:KennyRogers (cropped).jpg
Kenny Rogers scored his first #1 hit with "Lady" in 1980.
File:John Lennon 1969 (cropped).jpg
169x169px

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]

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

Key
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

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
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

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

Additional sources

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  32. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  33. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  34. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  35. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  36. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  37. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  38. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  39. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  40. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  41. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  42. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  43. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  44. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  45. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  46. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  47. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  48. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  49. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  50. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  51. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  52. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  53. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number_ones_of_1980&oldid=727676761"