AUSTRALIA'S (AMR:BARRY KOWAL) TOP ALBUMS OF 1979
No.-Album-Artist-Peak Month-Peak Position 1 DISCOVERY-ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-AUGUST-1 1834 2 BREAKFAST IN AMERICA-SUPERTRAMP-May-1 1690 3 BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN-ROD STEWART-February-1 1272 4 52ND STREET-BILLY JOEL-January-1 1252 5 THE LONG RUN-EAGLES-November-1 1182 6 TUSK-FLEETWOOD MAC-November-2 1176 7 SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN-BEE GEES-March-1 1060 8 THE VERY BEST OF LEO SAYER-Leo Sayer-August-1 884 9 RICKIE LEE JONES-Rickie Lee Jones-June-1 882 10 THE BOB SEGER COLLECTION-Bob Seger-May-1 840 11 Greatest Hits-Rod Stewart-November-1 826 12 Bee Gees Greatest-Bee Gees-December-1 752 13 Toto-Toto-March-2 746 14 Parallel Lines-Blondie-April-2 712 15 Breakfast At Sweethearts-Cold Chisel-April-4 708 16 Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Volume II-Barbra Streisand-February-2 698 17 Slow Train Coming-Bob Dylan-October-1 672 18 In Through The Out Door-Led Zeppelin-September-3 654 19 Get The Knack-The Knack-September-1 640 20 The Best Of Kenny Rogers-Kenny Rogers-November-4 630 21 Inner Secrets-Santana-January-9 628 22 Back To The Egg-Paul McCartney & Wings-July-3 624 23 You Don't Bring Me Flowers-Neil Diamond-February-5 606 24 Bad Girls-Donna Summer-July-6 588 25 Fate For Breakfast-Art Garfunkel-August-3 536 26 Nicolette-Nicolette Larson-February-6 534 27 Totally Hot-Olivia Newton-John-January-7 530 28 First Under The Wire-Little River Band-August-2 508 29 Minute By Minute-Doobie Brothers-May-6 482 30 Dream Police-Cheap Trick-November-7 476 31 Voulez-Vous-Abba-June-5 456 32 At Budokan-Bob Dylan-June-4 452 33 5-J.J. Cale-October-6 438 34 English History-Jon English-September-4 438 35 The Best Of Earth,Wind & Fire-Earth,Wind & Fire-April-7 420 36 Wet-Barbara Streisand-December-7 406 37 Armed Forces-Elvis Costello & The Attractions-April-9 400 38 Wings Greatest-Wings-January-8 390 39 Candy-O-The Cars-October-7 384 40 Rust Never Sleeps-Neil Young & Crazy Horse-August-8 376 41 No Exit-The Angels-August-8 372 42 Against The Grain-Phoebe Snow-April-9 354 43 Promises-Promises-May-6 346 44 Communique-Dire Straits-July-5 338 45 Forever And Ever-Demis Roussos-June-11 336 46 Bop Till You Drop-Ry Cooder-October-7 322 47 The Sports Don't Throw Stones-The Sports-April-9 320 48 Dragon's Greatest Hits Vol. 1-Dragon-June-8 302 49 Bombs Away Dream Babies-John Stewart-September-10 242 50 Go West-Village People-April-8 242 51 Marathon-Santana-October-9 236 52 Eat To The Beat-Blondie-November-9 212 53 I Am-Earth,wind & Fire-July-12 208 54 Against The Wind-Soundtrack-March-10 192 55 Lodger-David Bowie-June-11 188 56 Into The Music-Van Morrison-November-10 186 57 From The Inside-Alice Cooper-January-12 184 58 Replicas-Tubeway Army-October-11 150 59 Highway To Hell-AC/DC-November-13 106 60 The Fine Art Of Surfacing-Boomtown Rats-December-11 78 61 Nightout-Ellen Foley-December-13 70 62 Screaming Targets-Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons-September-13 36 63 New Boots And Panties-Ian Dury-May-13 36 64 Stateless-Lene Lovich-June-13 36 65 Manifesto-Roxy Music-May-13 36 66 Livin' Inside Your Love-George Benson-May-14 34 67 Hot Streets-Chicago-February-14 34 68 Eve-Alan Parson's Project-October-14 34