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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

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An asterisk (*) indicates an unpublished weekly chart due to the special double issues RPM publishes for the year-end top singles charts.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.
7 January* "How Deep Is You Love" Bee Gees
14 January
21 January
28 January
4 February "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" Rod Stewart
11 February "Baby Come Back" Player
18 February "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees
25 February
4 March
11 March
18 March "Sometimes When We Touch" Dan Hill
25 March "Emotion" Samantha Sang
1 April "Night Fever" Bee Gees
8 April
15 April
22 April
29 April
6 May "If I Can't Have You" Yvonne Elliman
13 May
20 May "The Closer I Get to You" Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
27 May "With a Little Luck" Wings
3 June
10 June
17 June "Shadow Dancing" Andy Gibb
24 June
1 July
8 July "It's a Heartache" Bonnie Tyler
15 July "Baker Street" Gerry Rafferty
22 July
29 July
5 August
12 August "Miss You" The Rolling Stones
19 August
26 August "Three Times a Lady" Commodores
2 September
9 September
16 September
23 September "Grease" Frankie Valli
30 September "Hopelessly Devoted to You" Olivia Newton-John
7 October
14 October "Hot Child in the City" Nick Gilder
21 October
28 October "You Needed Me" Anne Murray
5 November
11 November
18 November
25 November "MacArthur Park" Donna Summer
2 December
9 December "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
16 December
23 December
30 December "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vannelli

See also

References

  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.

External links

Canadian Singles Charts
CHUM Chart
RPM Top Singles
Nielsen SoundScan
Canadian Hot 100
RPM Country singles chart
Radio & Records Canada Country Top 30
Canada Country Airplay
RPM Dance chart
RPM Alternative 30/Rock Report
Radio & Records Rock Top 30
The Record Retail Singles
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