1980 Number One Singles U.S. Pop 

 Title / Artist / Weeks at #1: 

 * Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band (1 week) 

* Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (1 week) 

 * Rock With You - Michael Jackson (4 weeks) 

 * Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tenille (1 week) 

 * Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (4 weeks) 

 * Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd (4 weeks) 

 * Call Me - Blondie  (6 weeks) 

 * Funkytown - Lipps Inc. (4 weeks) 

 * Coming Up - PaulMcCartney (3 weeks) 

 * It's Still Rock & Roll To Me - Billy Joel (2 weeks) 

 * Magic - Olivia Newton-John (4 weeks) 

 * Sailing - Christopher Cross (1 week) 

 * Upside Down - Diana Ross (4 weeks) 

 * Another One Bites The Dust - Queen (3 weeks) 

 * Woman In Love - Barbra Steisand (3 weeks) 

 * Lady - Kenny Rogers (6 weeks) 

 * (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon (1 week) 

 1980 Number One Singles U.K. 

 Title / Artist / Weeks at #1:  

 * Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd (2 weeks) 

 * Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders  (2 weeks) 

 * The Specials Live EP - The Specials  (2 weeks) 

 * Coward Of The County - Kenny Rogers (2 weeks) 

 * Atomic - Blondie (2 weeks) 

 * Together We Are Beautiful - Fern Kinney (1 week) 

 * Going Underground - The Jam (3 weeks) 

 * Working My Way Back To You - The Spinners (2 weeks) 

 * Call Me - Blondie (1 week) 

 * Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners  (2 weeks)

 * What's Another Year - Johnny Logan (2 weeks) 

 * Suicide Is Painless (Theme from MASH) - Johnny Mandel (3 weeks) 

 * Crying - Don Mc Lean (3 weeks)

 * Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John with ELO (2 weeks) 

 * Use It Up and Wear It Out - Odyssey 

 * The Winner Takes It All - ABBA (2 weeks) 

 * Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie (2 weeks) 

 * Start! - The Jam (1 week)

 * Feels Like I'm In Love - Kelly Marie (2 weeks) 

 * Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (4 weeks) 

 * Woman In Love - Barbra Streisand (3 weeks) 

 * The Tide Is High - Blondie (2 weeks) 

 * Super Trouper - ABBA (3 weeks)

 * (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon (2 weeks) 

 * There's No-One Quite Like Grandma - St Winifreds School Choir (1 week)

1980 Best Selling Singles

Based on Worldwide Sales

  1 Pink Floyd / Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)

  2 Barbra Streisand / A Woman in Love

  3 John Lennon / (Just Like) Starting Over

  4 Diana Ross / Upside Down

  5 Blondie / Call Me

  6 Lipps Inc / Funkytown

  7 Queen / Another One Bites the Dust

  8 Queen / Crazy Little Thing Called Love

  9 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra / Xanadu

10 Irene Cara / Fame

11 Abba / The Winner Takes it All

12 Blondie / The Tide is High

13 Sugarhill Gang / Rapper's Delight

14 Kenny Rogers / Lady

15 KC & The Sunshine Band / Please Don't Go

16 The Pretenders / Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)

17 The Police / Don't Stand So Close to Me

18 Leo Sayer / More Than I Can Say

19 Stevie Wonder / Master Blaster (Jammin')

20 Captain & Tennille / Do That to Me One More Time

21 Abba / Super Trouper

22 Paul McCartney / Coming Up

23 Olivia Newton-John / Magic

24 Gary Numan / Cars

25 Kenny Rogers / Coward of the County

26 The Rolling Stones / Emotional Rescue

27 Michael Jackson / Rock With You

28 Elton John / Little Jeannie

29 Christopher Cross / Sailing

30 Johnny Logan / What's Another Year

31 The Detroit Spinners / Working My Way Back to You

32 Goombay Dance Band / Sun Of Jamaica

33 Air Supply / All Out of Love

34 David Bowie / Ashes to Ashes

35 George Benson / Give Me the Night

36 Neil Diamond / Love On the Rocks

37 Kool & The Gang / Ladies Night

38 Rupert Holmes / Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

39 Bruce Springsteen / Hungry Heart

40 Dr Hook / Sexy Eyes

41 Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb / Guilty

42 Rocky Burnett / Tired of Toein' The Line

43 Donna Summer / On The Radio

44 Billy Joel / It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me

45 Stephanie Mills / Never Knew Love Like This Before

46 Devo / Whip It

47 The Korgis / Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

48 Bette Midler / The Rose

49 Frank Sinatra / Theme From 'New York New York'

50 Blondie / Atomic

51 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / Refugee

52 Billy Preston & Syreeta / With You I'm Born Again

53 Cliff Richard / Dreamin'

54 Joy Division / Love Will Tear Us Apart

55 Split Enz / I Got You

56 The Pointer Sisters / He's So Shy

57 Michael Jackson / Off the Wall

58 Brothers Johnson / Stomp!

59 SOS Band / Take Your Time (Do it Right)

60 Robert Palmer / Johnny & Mary

61 Donna Summer / The Wanderer

62 AC/DC / You Shook Me All Night Long

63 Bob Marley / Could You Be Loved

64 The Vapors / Turning Japanese

65 Supertramp / Dreamer

66 The Whispers / And the Beat Goes On

67 Genesis / Misunderstanding

68 Rupert Holmes / Him

69 Fleetwood Mac / Sara

70 Air Supply / Lost in Love

71 Ottawan / DISCO

72 Benny Mardones / Into the Night

73 Shalamar / The Second Time Around

74 Marti Webb / Take That Look Off Your Face

75 Kelly Marie / Feels Like I'm in Love

76 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / Against the Wind

77 Smokey Robinson / Cruisin'

78 Peter Gabriel / Games Without Frontiers

79 The Village People / Can't Stop the Music

80 The Manhattans / Shining Star

81 David Bowie / Fashion

82 Ray, Goodman & Brown / Special Lady

83 Diana Ross / I'm Coming Out

84 Madness / One Step Beyond

85 Christopher Cross / Ride Like the Wind

86 Electric Light Orchestra / I'm Alive

87 Andy Gibb / Desire

88 Kate Bush / Babooshka

89 Kenny Loggins / This is It

90 Michael Jackson / She's Out of My Life

91 Roland Kaiser / Santa Maria

92 Pat Benatar / Hit Me With Your Best Shot

93 Eagles / I Can't Tell You Why

94 The B52s / Rock Lobster

95 Paul Simon / Late in the Evening

96 Kim Carnes / More Love

97 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / Fire Lake

98 Earth & Fire / Weekend

99 Jermaine Jackson / Let's Get Serious

100 The Detroit Spinners / Cupid - I've Loved You For a Long Time

1980 Best Selling Albums

Based on Worldwide Sales

  1 AC/DC / Back in Black

  2 John Lennon / Double Fantasy

  3 Barbra Streisand / Guilty

  4 Bruce Springsteen / The River

  5 Billy Joel / Glass Houses

  6 The Police / Zenyatta Mondatta

  7 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra / Xanadu

  8 The Pretenders / The Pretenders

  9 The Rolling Stones / Emotional Rescue

10 Queen / The Game

11 Kenny Rogers / Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits

12 Talking Heads / Remain In Light

13 David Bowie / Scary Monsters & Super Creeps

14 Abba / Super Trouper

15 Dire Straits / Making Movies

16 Stevie Wonder / Hotter Than July

17 Bob Marley / Uprising

18 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / Against The Wind

19 Christopher Cross / Christopher Cross

20 Genesis / Duke

21 Diana Ross / Diana

22 Supertramp / Paris

23 Elvis Costello / Get Happy!

24 Jackson Browne / Hold Out

25 The Clash / Sandinista

26 Paul McCartney / McCartney II

27 U2 / Boy

28 Steely Dan / Gaucho

29 The Alan Parsons Project / The Turn Of A Friendly Card

30 The Blues Brothers / The Blues Brothers

31 Joy Division / Closer

32 Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood

33 Neil Diamond / The Jazz Singer

34 Peter Gabriel / Peter Gabriel (Melt)

35 Rod Stewart / Foolish Behaviour

36 Original Soundtrack / Fame

37 Kiss / Unmasked

38 Rush / Permanent Waves

39 Blondie / Autoamerican

40 Madness / One Step Beyond

41 Van Halen / Women & Children First

42 Eagles / Eagles Live

43 George Benson / Give Me The Night

44 Donna Summer / The Wanderer

45 Lipps Inc / Mouth To Mouth

46 Paul Simon / One-Trick Pony

47 Pete Townshend / Empty Glass

48 Eric Clapton / Just One Night

49 Ultravox / Vienna

50 Elton John / 21 At 33

51 Kate Bush / Never For Ever

52 Black Sabbath / Heaven & Hell

53 Boney M / The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits

54 Pat Benatar / Crimes Of Passion

55 Madness / Absolutely

56 The Jackson 5 / Triumph

57 Robert Palmer / Clues

58 Bette Midler / The Rose

59 Kenny Rogers / Kenny

60 Neil Diamond / September Morn

61 Bob Dylan / Saved

62 Brothers Johnson / Light Up The Night

63 Boz Scaggs / Middle Man

64 Sky / Sky 2

65 Grover Washington Jr / Winelight

66 XTC / Black Sea

67 Yes / Drama

68 Linda Ronstadt / Mad Love

69 Split Enz / True Colours

70 Earth, Wind & Fire / Faces

71 The Doobie Brothers / One Step Closer

72 Anne Murray / Anne Murray's Greatest Hits

73 Pat Benatar / In The Heat Of The Night

74 The B52s / Wild Planet

75 Ozzy Osbourne / Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard Of Oz

76 The Village People / Can't Stop The Music

77 Joan Armatrading / Me Myself I

78 Aerosmith / Aerosmith's Greatest Hits

79 Judas Priest / British Steel

80 Rockpile / Seconds Of Pleasure

81 Iron Maiden / Iron Maiden

82 Dan Fogelberg / Phoenix

83 The Commodores / Heroes

84 Carpenters / Beautiful Moments

85 Mike Oldfield / QE2

86 Dexys Midnight Runners / Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

87 Giorgio Moroder / American Gigolo

88 The Beat / I Just Can't Stop It

89 The Whispers / The Whispers

90 Orchester Anthony Ventura / Die schonsten Melodien der Welt

91 Fleetwood Mac / Fleetwood Mac Live

92 Nina Hagen / Unbehagen

93 Richard Clayderman / Traumereien II Sonderausg.Bertelsm.

94 Prince / Dirty Mind

95 The Scorpions / Animal Magnetism

96 Heart / Greatest Hits/live

97 Rossington-Collins Band / Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

98 Mike Oldfield / Platinum

99 Peter Maffay / Revanche

100 Cliff Richard / I'm No Hero