List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1978 information
England Dan & John Ford Coley spent six consecutive weeks at number one with "We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again".
Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. In 1978, 17 songs topped the chart, then published under the title Easy Listening, based on playlists submitted by radio stations.[1]
In the first issue of Billboard of the year, Billy Joel reached number one with "Just the Way You Are", replacing "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees in the top spot.[2] Joel had launched his solo career in 1971 and achieved a number of minor hits over the next six years, but his breakthrough to stardom did not come until the release of the album The Stranger in the fall of 1977.[3] Taken from the album, "Just the Way You Are" won two Grammy Awards,[3] and gave him his first Billboard number one.[4] He would continue to be a regular on the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary chart for more than two decades, topping the chart eight times.[4] His 1993 song "The River of Dreams" would break a 25-year-old record by spending twelve consecutive weeks atop the listing.[5][6] In contrast to Joel's lengthy and successful career was that of another act to top the chart for the first time in 1978, the band Toby Beau. Despite topping the Easy Listening chart and placing highly on the magazine's all-genres listing, the Hot 100, with "My Angel Baby", the band would achieve only two more hit songs before dropping into relative obscurity after 1980.[7][8] Similarly jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione topped the Easy Listening chart for the first time in 1978 and enjoyed a brief period of chart success before falling from public favor in the 1980s.[9]
"Time Passages" by the Scottish singer Al Stewart was the final number one of the year. It held the top spot for the last eight weeks of 1978, the longest unbroken run atop the chart during the year. The only act to achieve more than one Easy Listening number one in 1978 was Barry Manilow; as his two chart-toppers only totalled five weeks in the top position, Stewart also had the highest total number of weeks at number one by an act during the year. Stewart had been a recording artist since the mid-1960s and would remain active for more than forty years, but his U.S. chart success was confined to a three-year period at the end of the 1970s.[10][11]
^Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006. Record Research Incorporated. p. vi. ISBN 9780898201697.
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^ abErlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Billy Joel Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
^ ab"Billy Joel". Billboard. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
^Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits. Billboard Books. pp. 64, 390. ISBN 9780823076932.
^Newman, Melissa (May 9, 2009). "Billy's Best: A Selective Guide to 10 of Joel's Finest Albums". Billboard.
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peaked at No. 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on July 22, 1972. It also peaked at No. 12 the same week on the Easylistening chart (later known as Adult...
canonical representation of the easylistening genre, and is considered by some to be the definitive easylistening track of all time. Following its introduction...
what was then Billboard'sEasyListening chart (later known as Adult Contemporary), where eight of her 24 entries reached numberone. Of those 24, 20 also...
on the US Billboard Hot 100, kept out of the top spot by Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life". It hit No. 1 on the BillboardEasyListening chart, where...
number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 the week of November 19, 1977, spent two weeks at number nine on Cashbox, and reached numberone on the US Easy...
their 13th charting hit in the United States, and their second number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was included on the duo's 1979 studio...
biggest hit, "So in to You", which peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 11 on the EasyListening chart. "Sky High" (Buie, Daughtry, Hammond...
subsequent pressings of the album. "Two Doors Down" peaked at No. 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 12 on the US BillboardEasyListening chart. In Canada...
reaching No. 21 on Billboard'sEasyListening chart. The LP, Will You Be Staying After Sunday, barely missed the Top 100 ofBillboard's albums chart, peaking...
reached the top ten ofBillboard's Rhythm & Blues/Soul chart. Five of their 19 top 20 hits on the EasyListening chart reached numberone. The five original...
released on his 1978 Comes a Time album. "Lotta Love" was also covered by Nicolette Larson in 1978. Larson's version reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...
first number-one on the EasyListening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the...
to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and spent two weeks at number 1 on Billboard'sEasyListening chart. Billboard ranked the record as the number 4...
peaked at number 19 on the Billboard charts and number 17 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100 in June 1978. It also reached #40 on the EasyListening chart. In...
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