Below is a list from Billboard magazine’s Top ear-End Hot 100 songs for 1978. Chart © by Billboard, a part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. All Rights Reserved. Learn more about Billboard here.
- 1. Shadow Dancing – Andy Gibb
- 2. Night Fever – The Bee Gees
- 3. You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone
- 4. Stayin’ Alive – The Bee Gees
- 5. Kiss You All Over – Exile
- 6. How Deep Is Your Love – The Bee Gees
- 7. Baby Come Back – Player
- 8. (Love Is) Thicker Than Water – Andy Gibb
- 9. Boogie Oogie Oogie – A Taste Of Honey
- 10. Three Times a Lady – The Commodores
- 11. Grease – Frankie Valli
- 12. I Go Crazy – Paul Davis
- 13. You’re the One That I Want – John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
- 14. Emotion – Samantha Sang
- 15. Lay Down Sally – Eric Clapton
- 16. Miss You – The Rolling Stones
- 17. Just the Way You Are – Billy Joel
- 18. With a Little Luck – Wings
- 19. If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman
- 20. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) – Chic
- 21. Feels So Good – Chuck Mangione
- 22. Hot Child In the City – Nick Gilder
- 23. Love Is Like Oxygen – The Sweet
- 24. It’s a Heartache – Bonnie Tyler
- 25. We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions – Queen
- 26. Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
- 27. Can’t Smile Without You – Barry Manilow
- 28. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late – Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams
- 29. Dance With Me – Peter Brown
- 30. Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad – Meat Loaf
- 31. Jack and Jill – Raydio
- 32. Take a Chance On Me – Abba
- 33. Sometimes When We Touch – Dan Hill
- 34. Last Dance – Donna Summer
- 35. Hopelessly Devoted to You – Olivia Newton-John
- 36. Hot Blooded – Foreigner
- 37. You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) – Rod Stewart
- 38. The Closer I Get to You – Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
- 39. Dust In the Wind – Kansas
- 40. Magnet and Steel – Walter Egan
- 41. Short People – Randy Newman
- 42. Use Ta Be My Girl – The O’Jays
- 43. Our Love – Natalie Cole
- 44. Love Will Find a Way – Pablo Cruise
- 45. An Everlasting Love – Andy Gibb
- 46. Love Is in the Air – John Paul Young
- 47. Goodbye Girl – David Gates
- 48. Slip Slidin’ Away – Paul Simon
- 49. The Groove Line – Heatwave
- 50. Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
- 51. Imaginary Lover – Atlanta Rhythm Section
- 52. Still the Same – Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
- 53. My Angel Baby, Toby Beau
- 54. Disco Inferno – The Trammps
- 55. On Broadway – George Benson
- 56. Come Sail Away – Styx
- 57. (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again – L.T.D.
- 58. This Time I’m in It for Love – Player
- 59. You Belong to Me – Carly Simon
- 60. Here You Come Again – Dolly Parton
- 61. Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt
- 62. Peg – Steely Dan
- 63. You Needed Me – Anne Murray
- 64. Shame – Evelyn “Champagne” King
- 65. Reminiscing – Little River Band
- 66. Count On Me – Jefferson Starship
- 67. Baby Hold On – Eddie Money
- 68. Hey Deanie – Shaun Cassidy
- 69. Summer Nights – John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
- 70. What’s Your Name – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- 71. Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Crystal Gayle
- 72. Because the Night – Patti Smith
- 73. Every Kinda People – Robert Palmer
- 74. Copacabana (At the Copa) – Barry Manilow
- 75. Always and Forever – Heatwave
- 76. You and I – Rick James
- 77. Serpentine Fire – Earth, Wind and Fire
- 78. Sentimental Lady – Bob Welch
- 79. Falling, LeBlanc and Carr
- 80. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Santa Esmeralda
- 81. Bluer Than Blue – Michael Johnson
- 82. Running On Empty – Jackson Browne
- 83. Whenever I Call You “Friend” – Kenny Loggins
- 84. Fool (If You Think It’s Over), Chris Rea
- 85. Get Off – Foxy
- 86. Sweet Talkin’ Woman – Electric Light Orchestra
- 87. Life’s Been Good – Joe Walsh
- 88. I Love the Nightlife – Alicia Bridges
- 89. You Can’t Turn Me Off (In the Middle of Turning Me On) – High Inergy
- 90. It’s So Easy – Linda Ronstadt
- 91. Native New Yorker – Odyssey
- 92. Flashlight – Parliament
- 93. Don’t Look Back – Boston
- 94. Turn to Stone – Electric Light Orchestra
- 95. I Can’t Stand the Rain – Eruption
- 96. Ebony Eyes – Bob Welch
- 97. The Name of the Game – Abba
- 98. We’re All Alone – Rita Coolidge
- 99. Hollywood Nights – Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
- 100. Deacon Blues – Steely Dan