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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1979. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1979. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
#
Title
Artist
Highest pos. reached
weeks at No. 1
1.
Breakfast in America
Supertramp
1
6
2.
Discovery
Electric Light Orchestra
1
6
3.
Dynasty
Kiss
2
4.
Blondes Have More Fun
Rod Stewart
1
6
5.
52nd Street
Billy Joel
1
5 (pkd #1 in 1978 & 79)
6.
Spirits Having Flown
Bee Gees
1
5
7.
The Bob Seger Collection
Bob Seger
1
2
8.
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer
1
1
9.
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
1
6
10.
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
1
3 (pkd #1 in 1978)
11.
Minute by Minute
Doobie Brothers
6
12.
Parallel Lines
Blondie
2
13.
Toto
Toto
2
14.
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Barbra Streisand
2
15.
Breakfast at Sweethearts
Cold Chisel
4
16.
In Through the Out Door
Led Zeppelin
3
17.
Face to Face
The Angels
18
18.
Slow Train Coming
Bob Dylan
1
2
19.
Get the Knack
The Knack
1
4
20.
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Neil Diamond
5
21.
Bad Girls
Donna Summer
6
22.
Back to the Egg
Wings
3
23.
Nicolette
Nicolette Larson
6
24.
Fate for Breakfast
Art Garfunkel
3
25.
The Long Run
The Eagles
1
3
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.
source: David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"
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