| Top 40 Hits of May 1979 |
| 1 |
Art Garfunkel | Bright Eyes |
| 2 |
M | Pop Muzik |
| 3 |
Blondie | Sunday Girl |
| 4 |
Roxy Music | Dance Away |
| 5 |
Abba | Does Your Mother Know |
| 6 |
Peaches & Herb | Reunited |
| 7 |
Boney M | Hooray Hooray It's A Holi-Holiday |
| 8 |
Amii Stewart | Knock On Wood |
| 9 |
Eruption | One Way Ticket |
| 10 |
David Bowie | Boys Keep Swingin' |
| 11 |
Gary Moore | Parisienne Walkways |
| 12 |
Earth Wind & Fire | Boogie Wonderland |
| 13 |
Dickies | Banana Splits |
| 14 |
Police | Roxanne |
| 15 |
Racey | Some Girls |
| 16 |
Supertramp | The Logical Song |
| 17 |
Wings | Goodnight Tonight |
| 18 |
Undertones | Jimmy Jimmy |
| 19 |
Shadows | Theme From 'The Deer Hunter' (Cavatina) |
| 20 |
Bee Gees | Love You Inside Out |
| 21 |
Monks | Nice Legs Shame About Her Face |
| 22 |
Sparks | The Number One Song In Heaven |
| 23 |
Jacksons | Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) |
| 24 |
Electric Light Orchestra | Shine A Little Love |
| 25 |
Damned | Love Song |
| 26 |
Donna Summer | Hot Stuff |
| 27 |
Mike Oldfield | Guilty |
| 28 |
Kandidate | I Don't Wanna Lose You |
| 29 |
Gonzalez | Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet |
| 30 |
Milk & Honey | Hallelujah |
| 31 |
Linda Clifford | Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| 32 |
McFadden & Whitehead | Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now |
| 33 |
Cheap Trick | I Want You To Want Me |
| 34 |
Squeeze | Cool For Cats |
| 35 |
Clash | I Fought The Law |
| 36 |
Skids | Masquerade |
| 37 |
Lene Lovich | Say When |
| 38 |
Edwin Starr | HAPPY Radio |
| 39 |
Siouxsie & The Banshees | The Staircase |
| 40 |
Anita Ward | Ring My Bell |
