This is a list of singles which have reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart in 1979.
Week ending Song ArtistRef. 6 January "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" Boney M 13 January "Y.M.C.A." Village People 20 January 27 January 3 February 10 February "Chiquitita" ABBA 17 February 24 February 3 March "Tragedy" The Bee Gees 10 March 17 March "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor 24 March 31 March 7 April 14 April "Bright Eyes" Art Garfunkel 21 April 28 April 5 May "Hallelujah" Milk and Honey 12 May "Bright Eyes" Art Garfunkel 19 May 26 May "Sunday Girl" Blondie 2 June 9 June 16 June 23 June "Dance Away" Roxy Music 30 June "Do You Want Your Old Lobby Washed Down, Con Shine" Brendan Shine 7 July 14 July 21 July 28 July "Green Fields Of France" The Fureys and Davey Arthur 4 August "I Don't Like Mondays" The Boomtown Rats 11 August 18 August 25 August 1 September "We Don't Talk Anymore" Cliff Richard 8 September 15 September 22 September 29 September "Viva IL Papa" Caitriona Walsh 6 October "Welcome John Paul II" Jim Tobin 13 October 20 October "Message in a Bottle" The Police 27 October "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles 3 November 10 November "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" ABBA 17 November "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" Dr. Hook 24 November 1 December 8 December "Walking on the Moon" The Police 15 December "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" Pink Floyd 22 December 29 December
21 Number Ones Most weeks at No.1 (song): "Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel Most weeks at No.1 (artist): Art Garfunkel Most No.1s: Abba (2), The Police (2) Two songs about the visit by Pope John Paul II to Ireland reached No. 1
See also 1979 in music Irish Singles Chart List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
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