List of number one hits in Australia (1978)

This list of number-one hits in Australia in 1978 . Basis are the top 50 of the Australian charts of ARIA . There were 15 number-one singles and 9 number-one albums that year.

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Singles

← 1977 ←	List of number one hits in Australia			1979 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) December 12, 1977 - February 26, 1978 11 weeks 11 Wings Mull of Kintyre Denny Laine , Paul James McCartney - February 27, 1978 - March 26, 1978 4 weeks 4th Bonnie Tyler It's a Heartache Music: Ronnie James Scott; Text: Steve Wolfe - March 27, 1978 - April 2, 1978 1 week 1 The babies It's a Heartache Music: Ronnie James Scott; Text: Steve Wolfe - April 3, 1978 - May 22, 1978 7 weeks 7th Bee Gees Stayin 'Alive Barry Alan Gibb , Robin Hugh Gibb , Maurice Ernest Gibb - May 23, 1978 - June 11, 1978 3 weeks 3 Kate Bush Wuthering Heights Kate Bush - June 12, 1978 - June 18, 1978 1 week 1 eruption I Can't Stand the Rain Donald Maurice Bryant, Bernard Lester Miller, Ann Peebles - June 19, 1978 - June 25, 1978 1 week 1 Gerry Rafferty Baker Street Gerry Rafferty - June 26, 1978 - July 9, 1978 2 weeks (9 in total) 9 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John You're the One That I Want John Clifford Farrar - July 10, 1978 - August 20, 1978 6 weeks 6th Boney M. Rivers of Babylon Brent Dowe , Trevor McNaughton , Frank Farian , George Reyam - August 21, 1978 - October 8, 1978 7 weeks (9 in total) 9 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John You're the One That I Want John Clifford Farrar - October 9, 1978 - October 22, 1978 2 weeks 2 Dragon Are You Old Enough Paul Hewson The New Zealanders relocated to Australia had a hit last year with April Sun in Cuba and this year with Are You Old Enough their only number 1 hit. October 23, 1978 - October 29, 1978 1 week 1 Belle Epoque Black Is Black Steve Wadey, Anthony Hayes, Michelle Grainger - October 30, 1978 - December 3, 1978 5 weeks 5 The Commodores Three Times a Lady Lionel B. Richie Jr. - December 4, 1978 - December 17, 1978 2 weeks 2 Boney M. Rasputin Fred Jay , Frank Farian , George Reyam - December 18, 1978 - December 24, 1978 1 week 1 Exile Kiss You All Over Nicky Chinn , Mike Chapman - December 25, 1978 - January 28, 1979 5 weeks 5 Village People YMCA Music: Jacques Morali ; Text: Henri Belolo -
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Albums

← 1977 ←	List of number one hits in Australia			1979 →
Period Where. total Interpreter title Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , additional information) November 28, 1977 - January 29, 1978 9 weeks 9 Rod Stewart Foot Loose & Fancy Free - January 30, 1978 - February 12, 1978 2 weeks (8 in total) 8th Fleetwood Mac Rumors - February 13, 1978 - March 19, 1978 5 weeks 5 Linda Ronstadt Simple dreams - March 20, 1978 - June 25, 1978 14 weeks 14th ( Soundtrack ) Saturday Night Fever - June 26, 1978 - August 13, 1978 7 weeks 7th Meat loaf Bat out of Hell - August 14, 1978 - October 1, 1978 7 weeks (total of 13) 13 ( Soundtrack ) Grease - October 2, 1978 - November 19, 1978 7 weeks 7th Dire Straits / Various Artists Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - November 20, 1978 - December 3, 1978 2 weeks (total of 13) 13 (Soundtrack) Grease - December 4, 1978 - December 24, 1978 3 weeks 3 Dire Straits Dire Straits - December 25, 1978 - January 28, 1979 5 weeks 5 Billy Joel 52nd Street -
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1. ↑ Are you old enough - to read this , Matt Watson, The Ramble, February 18, 2013

literature

• Australian Chart Book by David Kent

See also: Number One Hits 1978 in Belgium , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , the United States, and the United Kingdom .