1978 Billboard Year ✦ End Hot 100 Singles - Top 100 Songs of 1978 

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And they still are

ELO: one of the greatest bands in rock history. Jeff Lynne is a genius.

ELO IS PERFECTION 🇬🇧❤️

I love ELO sooooo much I love Jeff Lynne the vest

Malcolm greetings from Australia. Did you know that in 1969 Neil Sedaka was in Melbourne Australia and wrote a song called "Wheeling West Virginia". A local DJ Bob Rogers heard the song and encouraged Neil to record the song. The song was recorded in Sydney Australia (1969). Here is the song ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1skAVcuTSoU.html Became a Top 20 hit here in Australia and New Zealand. At 3min 27 sec of the film clip is a picture of the 45 single. The arranger on the song John Farrar. John became Olivia Newton John's producer and song writer. Bringing it back to Top 100 of 1978, John wrote both "You're The One That I Want" & "Hopelessly Devoted To You" from the movie "Grease". He also wrote "Magic" from "Xanadu".

Which in turn meant RSO Records dominated the year, with the Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, the Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtracks, and even Eric Clapton and Player (the "Baby Come Back" guys). Unfortunately they also made the Sgt. Pepper's movie that year, which would result in their eventual demise. Casablanca, the other label forever associated with disco, was also riding high this year thanks to Donna Summer, Village People and Kiss. Sadly, they wouldn't make it very long in the eighties thanks to the collapse of disco, Donna Summer moving to Geffen Records, and Kiss going into decline (though they'd revive their career by ditching the makeup, and later revive their career *again* by putting it back on).

It sold more than "Dancing Queen," which hit number one and became their only US chart-topper?

welllllll..... there was some. most hated song of all time was muskrat love by capt and tenille

Every year has bad songs...lol

@@leanneb9529 That's right even for the seventies which was my second favorite decade for music. In my opinion, the early seventies were the best time for music (1970 to 1973). There were fewer bad songs for these early years of the seventies. The years 1974, 1975, and most of 1976 had fewer good songs than the early part of the decade. While 1977 wasn't too bad, 1978 was my favorite year of the late 70's even if it had some disco music. At least that year was not as bad for disco as 1979 was. That year was laden with crappy disco music. One of my favorite songs for 1979 was Music Box Dancer by Frank Mills.

@@robertshaw3711: In my mind, 1977 and 1978 were the two best back to back years for tunes.

Contraire, contraire. There were plenty of shitty songs in the '70's. Quite a few even made this list.

I'll take disco over rap any day of the week.

​@@jacksquat4140both are good lol

@@saintstiiizy: Are you trying to convince me or yourself? Truth is, one cannot argue taste. I hate Hip Hop, Rap, Country, and most Classical, but that's just me.

@@jacksquat4140 thats funny ngl, cuz I like country, rap, disco, rnb, and dance

@@saintstiiizy: Different strokes for different folks and that's the way it should be. It would be terribly boring if everyone thought the same way. Be well.

Saturday Night Fever ……………..

Andy Gibb (singer who sung “I Just Want To Be Your Everything, Shadow Dancer and Desire”)

Those were the days to be a teenager!! Fun and great music!

Now you’re 58-59

@Ca Nadian thepride now you’re 59

Donald Fenwell and once again you forgot a big one, COUNTRY!. Can you honestly say that most of the songs on this list are timeless?.If your a big classic rock fan probably not. I'd much rather listen to Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Stones and others then most of this stuff that doesn't hold up today, And yes I'd much rather listen to Waylon Jennings and Wille Nelson as well as the Charlie Daniel's band and maybe even Johnny Cash and even Merle Haggard than listen to the Bee Gees!.

@@mikeweizer3149 Thank you!

Now you’re 60

Had a music teacher that made each of us solo most of these songs. I gladly took an F.

My, the time does fly, and it seems every ten years the music changes along with everything else.

You would be hard pressed to find a better time to be in college and coming of age.

No argument from me! 😎😎😎

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At least whats what the charts say.

I don't know what it is, but that song annoyed me. Perhaps it was overplayed?

and that is very sad that turd achieved that distinction considering the competition

​@@rgrnduyou 🤮

I have no answer for you. I'm only 42 (born in 1979) and I LOVE this era!

@@briansmith8361 Happy to hear it.

Thanks for "Hey Deanie", "Reminiscing", "Deacon Bliues" and "Peg" by my favorite act, Steely Dan!

Not a bad time to be alive and not a bad time to be starting college. Hope things turned out well 4U.

.......Teacher! Teacher!!!

When do you think the music died and by what means? I thought there was little to celebrate after '86.

@@jacksquat4140 I agree with you - little worth listening to after the eighties. As I mentioned, music stopped being music after the introduction of, and subsequent overuse of, and overproduction with ProTools, Autotune, etc. I love technology as much as anyone, but overproducing robs music of its soul.

@@ExSkyCyclePilot: I didn't listen to music all that much from '88 to '92, but once I began listening again, everything had changed. It seemed every band that I knew had disappeared, and even those that remained, like Michael Jackson, and Madonna, had changed, and not for the better. Having said that, I truly wonder what happened. 1986 was a solid year, but '87 saw a drastic decline in listenability. I know something was in the works that led to this downward spiral, but I think it's more than Autotune, and ProTools, which doesn't explain the emergence of Paula Abdul, Jewel, and Hootie and the Blowfish, to name a few. It seems like the entire soft rock scene had completely changed, or no longer existed.

@@jacksquat4140 Back in the day, songwriters were independent, and shopped their songs on their own to anyone who would listen. Over time, corporations and boardrooms started calling the shots, and record companies started hiring staff songwriters. All that might have been a factor in the demise of music.

Agree

Their first mainstream hit

Now you’re 58

@@jaitheminecraftgamer5046 Yes

I think it was Chic who sang, "Good Times"[these are the good times]. Unless we are living in a Matrix, how did Chic know these were the good times? I have thought about that often.

Sonny Bono, John Phillips, Julie Andrews, Justin Tubb

It's about royalties....if it's on for more than a certain amount of time, it's breaking the law - and they can pull it off RU-vid

John Travolta =24, Maurice White =37, Benny Mardones =32, Dr. John =37, Dee Dee Warwick =36, Ali Cooper =19, Aretha Franklin =36, Dig Richards =38, Jimmy Page =34, Dionne Warwick =38, Billy Firy =38, Helen Shapiro =32, Dolly Parton =32, King Floyd =33, Bob Welch =33, Ceelo Green =3, Michael Bublé =3, Edwin Starr =36, Carl Radle =36, Eric Clapton =33, Robin Trower =33, Alan Cartwright =33, Maurice Gibb =29, Robin Gibb =29, Andy Gibb =20, Jon Lord =37, Paul Simon =37, Rod Stewart =33, Lou Gramm =28, Bob Carr =31, Jeff Lynne =31, Malcolm Turnbull =24, Scott Morrison =10, Daniel Craig =10, Barry Manilow =35, Bonnie Tyler =27, Thomas Boggs =34, Alex Chilton =28, Donna Fargo =33, Yvonne Elliman =27, Samantha Sang =27, Willie Nelson =45, John Lennon =38

@@jaitheminecraftgamer5046 John Travolta appears in grease Donna summer appearance in MacArthur park music video Michael Landon appearance in little house on the prairie

@@jaitheminecraftgamer5046 Ali cooper (31) / del Shannon (44)/ Eddie Albert (72)/ Carlton Heston (55) / Gregory peck (62)/ Eva Longoria (3) / dean Martin (61)/ Henry Winkler (33)/ Natalie Wood (40)/ James Garner (50)/ Faye Dunaway (37)/ Anne Bancroft (47) and Anne Murray (33)

@@jaitheminecraftgamer5046 Donna Fargo, country music's most underrated singer/songwriter of that decade. 6 #1 hits and only one of those she didn't write Happiest Girl In The Whole USA Funny Face Superman You Were Always There That Was Yesterday Thank you so much for adding her ☺️

It boggles my mind how quickly the time has passed, yet I still think of these stars as they once were.

We had a dip in quality in '78, but there were some gems as well as cheesy fluff. ;)

I loved Alicia Bridges as a top flight diva! ;)

Depends on if you consider the Gibb brothers and Olivia Newton-John British or Australian. (All were born in the UK but moved Down Under as children.) Actually, this countdown had a lot *less* soft rock than I'd expected. Yes, Barry Manilow was riding high, but there was enough great rock, soul, and disco music to help us overlook that.

The most wonderful of Sorgusboards. The '70s STILL RULE!

Wrong. INCREDIBLE Year! Not as great as '76 and '77 though.

Engelbert Humperdinck, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Freddie Garrity, Doyle Holly, Shirley Goodman, Clarence Carter, George Wydell Jones, Barack Obama Sr., Mickey Gilley, Mary Travers, Ricky Valence, Jimmy Ruffin, Donnie Brooks, Buddy Guy, Roger Miller

Santa Esmeralda the best

Kobe Bryant, Zac Brown

Mary Wilson, Joe Cocker, Gladys Knight, Malcolm Roberts, Abdul Hamid, Paul Keating, Jon Hiseman, Brooker T. Jones

It broke up in 1970 (8 years before 1978)

Roy Orbison, Engelbert Humperdinck, Glen Campbell, Freddie Garrity, Doyle Holly, Kris Kristofferson, Shirley Goodman, Leonard Lee, Barack Obama Sr., George Wydell Jones, Renaldo Benson, Levi Stubbs, Mary Travers, Ricky Valence, Jimmy Ruffin, Donnie Brooks, Mickey Gilley, Buddy Guy, Roger Miller