70s Redux

If I had the power, perhaps in an alternate timeline, the Top 40 would have been quite different...

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Number
1

Don't Bring Me Down
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Discovery
Peak
1 (for 7 weeks)
Weeks
14
Number
2

Pop Muzik
M
From the album: New York • Paris • London • Munich
Peak
2
Weeks
12
Number
3

Dreaming
Blondie
From the album: Eat To the Beat
Peak
3
Weeks
5
Number
4

Message in a Bottle
The Police
From the album: Reggatta de Blanc
Peak
4
Weeks
6
Number
5

Rock Lobster
The B-52's
From the album: The B-52's
Peak
5
Weeks
9
Number
6 Up by 4

Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
From the album: Tusk
Peak
6
Weeks
4
Number
7 Down by 1

Let's Go
The Cars
From the album: Candy-O
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
8 Down by 1

Money (That's What I Want)
The Flying Lizards
Peak
4
Weeks
11
Number
9 Up by 3

Duchess
The Stranglers
Peak
9
Weeks
11
Number
10 Up by 3

Making Plans for Nigel
XTC
Peak
10
Weeks
6
Number
11 Up by 4

Winter Rose/Love Awake
Paul McCartney & Wings
Peak
11
Weeks
6
Number
12 Down by 3

My Sharona
The Knack
From the album: Get the Knack
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
13 Down by 5

Driver's Seat
Sniff 'n' the Tears
From the album: Fickle Heart
Peak
5
Weeks
17
Number
14 Down by 3

Gangsters
The Specials
Peak
10
Weeks
11
Number
15 Up by 1

It's All I Can Do
The Cars
From the album: Candy-O
Peak
15
Weeks
4
Number
16 Up by 4

Good Girls Don't
The Knack
From the album: Get the Knack
Peak
16
Weeks
5
Number
17 Down by 3

Can't Stand Losing You
The Police
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
18 Up by 1

Get It Right Next Time
Gerry Rafferty
Peak
18
Weeks
7
Number
19 Down by 2

Cruel to Be Kind
Nick Lowe
Peak
11
Weeks
15
Number
20 Up by 4

Tryouts for the Human Race
Sparks
Peak
20
Weeks
4
Number
21 Up by 4

Dream Police
Cheap Trick
From the album: Dream Police
Peak
21
Weeks
3
Number
22 Up by 1

Dirty White Boy
Foreigner
From the album: Head Games
Peak
22
Weeks
5
Number
23 Down by 2

Goodbye Stranger
Supertramp
From the album: Breakfast In America
Peak
9
Weeks
16
Number
24 Up by 4

Video Killed The Radio Star
The Buggles
From the album: The Age Of Plastic
Peak
24
Weeks
2
Number
25 Up by 1

Babe
Styx
From the album: Cornerstone
Peak
25
Weeks
4
Number
26 Down by 8

Beat the Clock
Sparks
Peak
6
Weeks
17
Number
27 Up by 3

Take The Long Way Home
Supertramp
From the album: Breakfast In America
Peak
27
Weeks
2
Number
28 Debut

Damned If I Do
The Alan Parsons Project
Peak
28
Weeks
1
Number
29 Down by 7

Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Joe Jackson
Peak
4
Weeks
20
Number
30 Debut

Smash It Up
The Damned
From the album: Machine Gun Etiquette
Peak
30
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
27 Dropout

One Way Or Another
Blondie
From the album: Parallel Lines
Peak
5
Weeks
19
Number
29 Dropout

Moscow Discow
TELEX
Peak
13
Weeks
17

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Date

October 27, 1979

Songs

30

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