BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S (MAGAZINE’S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1979*
No. Album-Artist-Label-Peak Month 1 52nd STREET-BILLY JOEL-COLUMBIA 2 SPIRITS HAVE FLOWN-BEE GEES-RSO 3 MINUTE BY MINUTE-DOOBIE BROTHERS-Warner Brothers 4 CARS-CARS-Elektra 5 BREAKFAST IN AMERICA-SUPERTRAMP-A&M 6 LIVE AND MORE-DONNA SUMMER-Casablanca 7 PIECES OF EIGHT-STYX-A&M 8 BAD GIRLS-Donna Summer-Casablanca 9 PARALLEL LINES-Blondie-Chrysalis 10 BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN-Rod Stewart-Warner Brothers 11 The Gambler-Kenny Rogers-United Artists 12 Cruisin'-Village People-Casablanca 13 At Budokan-Cheap Trick-Epic 14 Stranger In Town-Bob Seger-Capitol 15 Van Halen-Van Halen-Warner Brothers 16 Get The Knack-Knack-Capitol 17 2 Hot!-Peaches & Herb-Polydor 18 The Stranger-Billy Joel-Columbia 19 Toto-Toto-Columbia 20 Grease Soundtrack-Various Artists-RSO 21 Legend-Poco-MCA 22 Some Girls-Rolling Stones-Rolling Stones 23 Dire Straits-Dire Straits-Warner Brothers 24 Best Of Earth,Wind & Fire-Earth,Wind & Fire-Columbia 25 Double Vision-Foreigner-Atlantic 26 In Through The Out Door-Led Zeppelin-Atlantic 27 Saturday Night Fever-Bee Gees-RSO 28 Greatest Hits Volume II-Barbara Streisand-Columbia 29 Desolation Angels-Bad Company-Swan Song 30 C'est Chic-Chic-Atlantic 31 Destiny-Jacksons-Epic 32 Dog And Butterfly-Heart-Portrait 33 Rickie Lee Jones-Rickie Lee Jones-Warner Brothers 34 Move It On Over-George Thorogood-Rounder 35 Totally Hot-Olivia Newton John-MCA 36 Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits-Barry Manilow-Arista 37 We Are Family-Sister Sledge-Cotillion 38 Van Halen II-Van Halen-Warner Brothers 39 Disco Nights-GQ-Arista 40 Love Tracks-Gloria Gaynor-Polydor 41 Living In The U.S.A.-Linda Ronstadt-Asylum 42 Backless-Eric Clapton-RSO 43 Briefcase Full Of Blues-Blues Brothers-Atlantic 44 Evolution-Journey-Columbia 45 Morning Dance-Spyra Gyra-Infinity 46 Macho Man-Village People-Casablanca 47 Brother To Brother-Gino Vanelli-A&M 48 Million Mile Reflection-Charlie Daniels Band-Epic 49 More Songs About Buildings And Food-Talking Heads-Sire 50 Look Sharp-Joe Jackson-A&M 51 Nicolette-Nicolette Larson-Warner Brothers 52 Time Passages-Al Stewart-Arista 53 A Wild And Crazy Guy-Steve Martin-Warner Brothers 54 Inner Secrets-Santana-Columbia 55 Hot Streets-Chicago-Columbia 56 Comes A Time-Neil Young-Warner Brothers 57 Twin Sons Of Different Mothers-Dan Fogelberg-Full Moon 58 Bustin' Out Of L Seven-Rick James-Gordy 59 Live-Willie Nelson-Columbia 60 Let's Keep It That Way-Anne Murray-Capitol 61 You Don't Bring Me Flowers-Neil Diamond-Columbia 62 Bombs Away Dream Babies-John Stewart-RSO 63 Children Of Sanchez-Chuck Mangione-A&M 64 Livin' Inside Your Love-George Benson-Warner Brothers 65 I Am-Earth,Wind & Fire-Columbia 66 Sleeper Catcher-Little River Band-Harvest 67 Rock On-Raydio-Arista 68 Energy-Pointer Sisters-Planet 69 Life For The Taking-Eddie Money-Columbia 70 Bat Out Of Hell-Meatloaf-Epic 71 Outlandos D'Amour-Police-A&M 72 Don't Look Back-Boston-Epic 73 Got To Be Real-Cheryl Lynn-Columbia 74 Discovery-Electric Light Orchestra-Jet 75 Bobby Caldwell-Bobby Caldwell-Coluds 76 Enlightened Rogues-AllMan Brothers Band-Capricorn 77 Armed Forces-Elvis Costello-Columbia 78 Street Life-Crusaders-MCA 79 Flag-James Taylor-Warner Brothers 80 Greatest Hits-Waylon Jennings-RCA 81 Instant Funk-Instant Funk-SalSoul 82 Candy O-Cars-Elektra 83 Touchdown-Bob James-Tappan 84 Head First-Babies-Chrysalis 85 The Boss-Diana Ross-Motown 86 You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic-Ian Hunter-Chrysalis 87 Alicia Bridges-Alicia Bridges-Polydor 88 Teddy-Teddy Pendergrass-Philadelphia International 89 Go West-Village People-Casablanca 90 Ace Frehley-Ace Frehley-Casablanca 91 Live Bootleg-Aerosmith-Columbia 92 Sheik Yerbouti-Frank Zappa-Zappa 93 Dionne-Dionne Warwick-Arista 94 Dynasty-Kiss-Casablanca 95 Knock On Wood-Amii Stewart-Ariola 96 Just A Game-Triumph-RCA 97 Whatcha Gonna Do...With My Lovin'?-Stephanie Mills-20th Century 98 New Kind Of Feeling-Anne Murray-Capitol 99 The Man-Barry White-20th Century 100 Monolith-Kansas-Kirshner *as published in the December 29th,1979 issue of Billboard Magazine.