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List of number-one singles of 1978 (Canada)

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The Bee Gees holds the number-one year-end hit in Canada in 1978, with "Night Fever" from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

RPM was a Canadian music magazine that published the bestselling singles chart in Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1978, twenty-eight singles reached number one in Canada. The first number one single was from the Bee Gees, with "How Deep Is Your Love" which reached number one in December 1977 and continued its number-one run for four weeks in 1978, and the last was "I Just Wanna Stop" from Canadian rock musician Gino Vannelli. Nine acts had their first number-one hit, such as Player, Dan Hill, Samantha Sang, Donny Hathaway, Bonnie Tyler, Gerry Rafferty, the Commodores, Nick Gilder and Gino Vannelli. Barry Gibb wrote or co-wrote seven of the chart's number-one songs. Four Canadian acts, Dan Hill, Anne Murray, Nick Gilder and Gino Vannelli, had one number-one song each in the chart that year.

The longest-running number-one single of the year, and also the best-performing single of the year, was the Bee Gees' "Night Fever", from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which spent five weeks at number one. "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Stayin' Alive", also from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, spent four weeks at number one in 1978. Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", the Commodores' "Three Times a Lady" and Anne Murray's "You Needed Me" also stayed at number one for four weeks that year.

Chart history

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Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on RPM's Year-End Top 200 Singles of 1978.

An asterisk (*) indicates an unpublished weekly chart due to the special double issues RPM publishes for the year-end top singles charts.

Chart history
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 7* "How Deep Is You Love" Bee Gees
January 14 [1]
January 21 [2]
January 28 [3]
February 4 "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" Rod Stewart [4]
February 11 "Baby Come Back" Player [5]
February 18 "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees [6]
February 25 [7]
March 4 [8]
March 11 [9]
March 18 "Sometimes When We Touch" Dan Hill [10]
March 25 "Emotion" Samantha Sang [11]
April 1 "Night Fever" Bee Gees [12]
April 8 [13]
April 15 [14]
April 22 [15]
April 29 [16]
May 6 "If I Can't Have You" Yvonne Elliman [17]
May 13 [18]
May 20 "The Closer I Get to You" Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway [19]
May 27 "With a Little Luck" Wings [20]
June 3 [21]
June 10 [22]
June 17 "Shadow Dancing" Andy Gibb [23]
June 24 [24]
July 1 [25]
July 8 "It's a Heartache" Bonnie Tyler [26]
July 15 "Baker Street" Gerry Rafferty [27]
July 22 [28]
July 29 [29]
August 5 [30]
August 12 "Miss You" The Rolling Stones [31]
August 19 [32]
August 26 "Three Times a Lady" Commodores [33]
September 2 [34]
September 9 [35]
September 16 [36]
September 23 "Grease" Frankie Valli [37]
September 30 "Hopelessly Devoted to You" Olivia Newton-John [38]
October 7 [39]
October 14 "Hot Child in the City" Nick Gilder [40]
October 21 [41]
October 28 "You Needed Me" Anne Murray [42]
November 5 [43]
November 11 [44]
November 18 [45]
November 25 "MacArthur Park" Donna Summer [46]
December 2 [47]
December 9 "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond [48]
December 16 [49]
December 23 [50]
December 30 "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vannelli [51]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: January 14, 1978". RPM.
  2. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: January 21, 1978". RPM.
  3. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: January 28, 1978". RPM.
  4. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: February 4, 1978". RPM.
  5. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: February 11, 1978". RPM.
  6. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: February 18, 1978". RPM.
  7. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: February 25, 1978". RPM.
  8. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: March 4, 1978". RPM.
  9. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: March 11, 1978". RPM.
  10. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: March 18, 1978". RPM.
  11. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: March 25, 1978". RPM.
  12. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: April 1, 1978". RPM.
  13. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: April 8, 1978". RPM.
  14. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: April 15, 1978". RPM.
  15. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: April 22, 1978". RPM.
  16. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: April 29, 1978". RPM.
  17. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: May 6, 1978". RPM.
  18. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: May 13, 1978". RPM.
  19. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: May 20, 1978". RPM.
  20. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: May 27, 1978". RPM.
  21. ^ "RPM 100 Singles June 3, 1978". RPM.
  22. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: June 10, 1978". RPM.
  23. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: June 17, 1978". RPM.
  24. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: June 24, 1978". RPM.
  25. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: July 1, 1978". RPM.
  26. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: July 8, 1978". RPM.
  27. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: July 15, 1978". RPM.
  28. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: July 22, 1978". RPM.
  29. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: July 29, 1978". RPM.
  30. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: August 5, 1978". RPM.
  31. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: August 12, 1978". RPM.
  32. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: August 19, 1978". RPM.
  33. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: August 26, 1978". RPM.
  34. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: September 2, 1978". RPM.
  35. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: September 9, 1978". RPM.
  36. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: September 16, 1978". RPM.
  37. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: September 23, 1978". RPM.
  38. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: September 30, 1978". RPM.
  39. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: October 7, 1978". RPM.
  40. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: October 14, 1978". RPM.
  41. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: October 21, 1978". RPM.
  42. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: October 28, 1978". RPM.
  43. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: November 5, 1978". RPM.
  44. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: November 11, 1978". RPM.
  45. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: November 18, 1978". RPM.
  46. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: November 25, 1978". RPM.
  47. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: December 2, 1978". RPM.
  48. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: December 9, 1978". RPM.
  49. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: December 16, 1978". RPM.
  50. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: December 23, 1978". RPM.
  51. ^ "RPM 100 Singles: December 30, 1978". RPM.
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