List of top 25 singles for 1978 in Australia
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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting singles on the Australian Singles Charts, for the year of 1978. These were the best charting singles in Australia for 1978. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report".[1]
| # | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "You're the One that I Want" | Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta | 1 | 9 |
| 2. | "Mull of Kintyre" | Wings | 1 | 11 (pkd #1 in 77 & 78) |
| 3. | "Rivers of Babylon" | Boney M | 1 | 6 |
| 4. | "Stayin' Alive" | Bee Gees | 1 | 7 |
| 5. | "Black Is Black" | La Belle Epoque | 1 | 1 |
| 6. | "Macho Man" | Village People | 3 | |
| 7. | "It's a Heartache" | Bonnie Tyler | 1 | 4 |
| 8. | "Three Times a Lady" | The Commodores | 1 | 5 |
| 9. | "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" | Meat Loaf | 3 | |
| 10. | "Baker Street" | Gerry Rafferty | 1 | 1 |
| 11. | "Wuthering Heights" | Kate Bush | 1 | 3 |
| 12. | "Surfin' U.S.A." | Leif Garrett | 2 | |
| 13. | "Emotion" | Samantha Sang | 2 | |
| 14. | "Are You Old Enough?" | Dragon | 1 | 2 |
| 15. | "I Can't Stand the Rain" | Eruption | 1 | 1 |
| 16. | "Oh Carol" | Smokie | 5 | |
| 17. | "How Deep Is Your Love" | Bee Gees | 3 | |
| 18. | "Grease" | Frankie Valli | 2 | |
| 19. | "Warm Ride" | Graham Bonnet | 2 | |
| 20. | "Isn't it Time" | The Babys | 1 | 1 |
| 21. | "Ebony Eyes" | Bob Welch | 3 | |
| 22. | "Sometimes When We Touch" | Dan Hill | 3 | |
| 23. | "Love is in the Air" | John Paul Young | 3 | |
| 24. | "If I Had Words" | Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley | 3 | |
| 25. | "Rasputin" | Boney M | 1 | 2 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report.
References
- ^ "Kent Music Report No 236 – 1 January 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1978". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via Imgur.com.
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