| Top 40 Hits of January 1980 |
| 1 |
Pretenders | Brass In Pocket |
| 2 |
Billy Preston & Syreeta | With You I'm Born Again |
| 3 |
Pink Floyd | Another Brick In The Wall |
| 4 |
Madness | My Girl |
| 5 |
KC & The Sunshine Band | Please Don't Go |
| 6 |
Nolans | I'm In The Mood For Dancing |
| 7 |
Abba | I Have A Dream |
| 8 |
Specials | Too Much Too Young (The Special AKA Live! EP) |
| 9 |
Beat | Tears Of A Clown / Ranking Full Stop |
| 10 |
Booker T & The MGs | Green Onions |
| 11 |
Styx | Babe |
| 12 |
Fiddler's Dram | Day Trip To Bangor |
| 13 |
Tourists | I Only Want To Be With You |
| 14 |
Dr Hook | Better Love Next Time |
| 15 |
Clash | London Calling |
| 16 |
Dollar | I Wanna Hold Your Hand |
| 17 |
Joe Jackson | It's Different For Girls |
| 18 |
Sugarhill Gang | Rapper's Delight |
| 19 |
Rose Royce | Is It Love You're After |
| 20 |
Three Degrees | My Simple Heart |
| 21 |
Sheila & B Devotion | Spacer |
| 22 |
Bee Gees | Spirits (Having Flown) |
| 23 |
Jon & Vangelis | I Hear You Now |
| 24 |
Regents | 7 Teen |
| 25 |
David Bowie | John I'm Only Dancing (Again) |
| 26 |
Positive Force | We Got The Funk |
| 27 |
Police | Walking On The Moon |
| 28 |
Azymuth | Jazz Carnival |
| 29 |
Skids | Working For The Yankee Dollar |
| 30 |
Kenny Rogers | Coward Of The County |
| 31 |
Chic | My Feet Keep Dancing |
| 32 |
Mike Oldfield | Blue Peter |
| 33 |
Gibson Brothers | Que Sera Mi Vida |
| 34 |
Status Quo | Living On An Island |
| 35 |
Rupert Holmes | Escape (The Pina Colada Song) |
| 36 |
New Musik | Living By Numbers |
| 37 |
Boomtown Rats | Someone's Looking At You |
| 38 |
Matchbox | Buzz Buzz A Diddle It |
| 39 |
Kool & The Gang | Too Hot |
| 40 |
Michael Jackson | Off The Wall |
