Weekly Pop Top 20 for August 11, 1979 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 2 | 1 | My Sharona | 2 | ▲ |
| The Knack |
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| 1 | 2 | Good Times | 1 |
| Chic |
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| 3 | 3 | The Main Event/Fight | 2 |
| Barbra Streisand |
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| 6 | 4 | You Can't Change That | ▲ |
| Raydio |
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| 4 | 5 | When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman | 1 |
| Dr. Hook |
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| 9 | 6 | Mama Can't Buy You Love | 4 |
| Elton John |
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| 5 | 7 | Gold | 1 |
| John Stewart |
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| 15 | 8 | After The Love Has Gone | 1 |
| Earth, Wind & Fire |
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| 13 | 9 | Sad Eyes | 1 |
| Robert John |
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| 14 | 10 | Lead Me On | 3 |
| Maxine Nightingale |
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| 8 | 11 | One Way Or Another | 10 | 8 |
| Blondie |
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| 12 | 12 | Is She Really Going Out With Him? | 2 | ▲ |
| Joe Jackson |
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| 19 | 13 | Don't Bring Me Down | 1 | 2 |
| Electric Light Orchestra |
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| 18 | 14 | The Devil Went Down To Georgia | 1 | 2 |
| The Charlie Daniels Band |
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| 16 | 15 | Suspicions | 10 |
| Eddie Rabbitt |
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| - | 16 | I'll Never Love This Way Again | 1 |
| Dionne Warwick |
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| 20 | 17 | Goodbye Stranger | 1 | 7 |
| Supertramp |
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| 17 | 18 | Let's Go | 3 | 12 |
| The Cars |
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| 10 | 19 | Bad Girls | 1 |
| Donna Summer |
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| - | 20 | Heaven Must Have Sent You | 5 |
| Bonnie Pointer |
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