page_title: List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1979
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1979 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Anne Murray
context_page_description: Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music genre. In 1979, 19 songs topped the chart, based on playlists submitted by radio stations. The chart was published under the title Easy Listening through the issue of Billboard dated March 31 and Adult Contemporary thereafter.
  On the first chart of the year, Scottish singer Al Stewart held the top spot with "Time Passages", which was in its ninth week at number one. The song would end its run at the top after ten weeks, the longest run at number one on the chart for more than ten years. 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 thee-year period at the end of the 1970s. Canadian singer Anne Murray was the only act with more than one number one in 1979. One of Canada's biggest musical exports of the 1970s, Murray topped the US country and Adult Contemporary charts, as well as Billboard's all-genres listing, the Hot 100.
caption: Canadian singer Anne Murray was the only act with more than one number one in 1979.
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