Pop and Rock Chart Archive
and Music Encyclopedia

Weekly Pop Top 20 for August 18, 1979

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1 1   My Sharona 2  
  The Knack
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3 2   The Main Event/Fight  
  Barbra Streisand
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2 3   Good Times 1  
  Chic
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6 4   Mama Can't Buy You Love  
  Elton John
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8 5   After The Love Has Gone 1  
  Earth, Wind & Fire
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13 6   Don't Bring Me Down 1 2  
  Electric Light Orchestra
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4 7   You Can't Change That 4  
  Raydio
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9 8   Sad Eyes 1  
  Robert John
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10 9   Lead Me On 3  
  Maxine Nightingale
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16 10   I'll Never Love This Way Again 1  
  Dionne Warwick
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14 11   The Devil Went Down To Georgia 1 2  
  The Charlie Daniels Band
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17 12   Goodbye Stranger 1 7  
  Supertramp
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15 13   Suspicions 10  
  Eddie Rabbitt
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5 14   When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman 1  
  Dr. Hook
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18 15   Let's Go 3 12  
  The Cars
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12 16   Is She Really Going Out With Him? 2 12  
  Joe Jackson
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7 17   Gold 1  
  John Stewart
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- 18   Lonesome Loser 19 1  
  Little River Band
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20 19   Heaven Must Have Sent You 5  
  Bonnie Pointer
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19 20   Bad Girls 1  
  Donna Summer
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The Knack and My Sharona finds the top song spot on the chart this week. Barbra Streisand finds the number two position this week with The Main Event/Fight. Chic finds the third chart position this week with Good Times.


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