# List of number-one singles of 1978 (Canada)

RPM was a Canadian music magazine that published the best-performing singles chart in Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1978, twenty-eight singles reached number one in the RPM chart. "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees held the top position from 1977 into 1978, and Gino Vannelli achieved the final number-one hit of the year with "I Just Wanna Stop". 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. The Bee Gees also had the most weeks at number one, totalling thirteen weeks, and also had two further number-one singles earlier in the year with "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Stayin' Alive", both also from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and having spent four weeks each at number one in 1978. Three singles, Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", the Commodores' "Three Times a Lady" and Anne Murray's "You Needed Me", stayed at number one for four weeks each that year.

## Chart history

Key :
* The yellow background indicates the #1 song on RPM's Year-End Top 200 Singles of 1978.
Chart history :
| Issue date | Title | Artist(s) |
| January 7 | "How Deep Is You Love" | Bee Gees |
| January 14 | "How Deep Is You Love" | Bee Gees |
| January 21 | "How Deep Is You Love" | Bee Gees |
| January 28 | "How Deep Is You Love" | Bee Gees |
| February 4 | "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" | Rod Stewart |
| February 11 | "Baby Come Back" | Player |
| February 18 | "Stayin' Alive" | Bee Gees |
| February 25 | "Stayin' Alive" | Bee Gees |
| March 4 | "Stayin' Alive" | Bee Gees |
| March 11 | "Stayin' Alive" | Bee Gees |
| March 18 | "Sometimes When We Touch" | Dan Hill |
| March 25 | "Emotion" | Samantha Sang |
| April 1 | "Night Fever" | Bee Gees |
| April 8 | "Night Fever" | Bee Gees |
| April 15 | "Night Fever" | Bee Gees |
| April 22 | "Night Fever" | Bee Gees |
| April 29 | "Night Fever" | Bee Gees |
| May 6 | "If I Can't Have You" | Yvonne Elliman |
| May 13 | "If I Can't Have You" | Yvonne Elliman |
| May 20 | "The Closer I Get to You" | Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway |
| May 27 | "With a Little Luck" | Wings |
| June 3 | "With a Little Luck" | Wings |
| June 10 | "With a Little Luck" | Wings |
| June 17 | "Shadow Dancing" | Andy Gibb |
| June 24 | "Shadow Dancing" | Andy Gibb |
| July 1 | "Shadow Dancing" | Andy Gibb |
| July 8 | "It's a Heartache" | Bonnie Tyler |
| July 15 | "Baker Street" | Gerry Rafferty |
| July 22 | "Baker Street" | Gerry Rafferty |
| July 29 | "Baker Street" | Gerry Rafferty |
| August 5 | "Baker Street" | Gerry Rafferty |
| August 12 | "Miss You" | The Rolling Stones |
| August 19 | "Miss You" | The Rolling Stones |
| August 26 | "Three Times a Lady" | Commodores |
| September 2 | "Three Times a Lady" | Commodores |
| September 9 | "Three Times a Lady" | Commodores |
| September 16 | "Three Times a Lady" | Commodores |
| September 23 | "Grease" | Frankie Valli |
| September 30 | "Hopelessly Devoted to You" | Olivia Newton-John |
| October 7 | "Hopelessly Devoted to You" | Olivia Newton-John |
| October 14 | "Hot Child in the City" | Nick Gilder |
| October 21 | "Hot Child in the City" | Nick Gilder |
| October 28 | "You Needed Me" | Anne Murray |
| November 4 | "You Needed Me" | Anne Murray |
| November 11 | "You Needed Me" | Anne Murray |
| November 18 | "You Needed Me" | Anne Murray |
| November 25 | "MacArthur Park" | Donna Summer |
| December 2 | "MacArthur Park" | Donna Summer |
| December 9 | "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" | Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond |
| December 16 | "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" | Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond |
| December 23 | "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" | Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond |
| December 30 | "I Just Wanna Stop" | Gino Vannelli |