| Top 40 Hits of August 1979 |
| 1 |
Cliff Richard | We Don't Talk Anymore |
| 2 |
Boomtown Rats | I Don't Like Mondays |
| 3 |
Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Reasons To Be Cheerful (Pt 3) |
| 4 |
Earth Wind & Fire | After The Love Has Gone |
| 5 |
Abba | Angeleyes / Voulez Vous |
| 6 |
BA Robertson | Bang Bang |
| 7 |
Sham 69 | Hersham Boys |
| 8 |
Darts | Duke Of Earl |
| 9 |
Police | Can't Stand Losing You |
| 10 |
Specials | Gangsters |
| 11 |
Dooleys | Wanted |
| 12 |
Roxy Music | Angel Eyes |
| 13 |
Electric Light Orchestra | The Diary Of Horace Wimp |
| 14 |
Gibson Brothers | Ooh What A Life |
| 15 |
Sparks | Beat The Clock |
| 16 |
Dave Edmunds | Girls Talk |
| 17 |
Joe Jackson | Is She Really Going Out With Him |
| 18 |
Showaddywaddy | Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller |
| 19 |
Judie Tzuke | Stay With Me Till Dawn |
| 20 |
Flying Lizards | Money |
| 21 |
Patrick Hernandez | Born To Be Alive |
| 22 |
Spyro Gyra | Morning Dance |
| 23 |
Randy Vanwarmer | Just When I Needed You Most |
| 24 |
Boney M | Gotta Go Home / El Lute |
| 25 |
Korgis | If I Had You |
| 26 |
Supertramp | Breakfast In America |
| 27 |
Chic | Good Times |
| 28 |
Knack | My Sharona |
| 29 |
Crusaders | Street Life |
| 30 |
Jam | When You're Young |
| 31 |
Bellamy Brothers | If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me |
| 32 |
Sister Sledge | Lost In Music |
| 33 |
Angelic Upstarts | Teenage Warning |
| 34 |
Johnny Mathis | Gone Gone Gone |
| 35 |
Donna Summer | Bad Girls |
| 36 |
Janet Kay | Silly Games |
| 37 |
Tubeway Army | Are 'Friends' Electric |
| 38 |
Me & You | You Never Know What You've Got |
| 39 |
Stranglers | Duchess |
| 40 |
Gary Numan | Cars |
