Question: What was the year was the top single My Sharona realeased?

Context articles: Get Along (song)
Rosanne Cash discography
Get the Knack
My Sharona
Patrick Nuo discography
Diana Ross discography
Joe Camilleri
Ain't Love a Bitch
Doug Fieger
Plumtree (band)

"Get Along" is a song performed by Australian recording artist Guy Sebastian, released in November 2012 as the fourth single from his seventh album "Armageddon".
 It was written by Sebastian and Ian Barter, who also produced the song.
 He wrote the song about Penelope Scott "Get Along" reached number 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart, the fourth top ten single released from "Armageddon".
 It is also Sebastian's 11th top ten single in Australia, and ninth to peak in the top five.
 "Get Along" has been certified 2× platinum.
 "Get Along" also reached number nine and gold certification in New Zealand.
 The song was a finalist in the Pop/Top 40 category of the 2013 International Songwriting Competition, and was also one of the final five nominees for the APRA Song of the Year Award.
 It was also nominated for Song of the Year in the 2013 ARIA Awards.
The discography of Rosanne Cash, an American singer-songwriter, consists of thirteen studio albums, six compilation albums, one tribute album, and 39 singles.
 The daughter of Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash recorded her self-titled debut album in 1978 under the German label Ariola.
 After signing with Columbia Records in 1979, Cash's second studio album "Right or Wrong" was released.
 Its lead single "No Memories Hangin' Around" (a duet with Bobby Bare) reached the Top 20 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart.
 Cash's third studio release, "Seven Year Ache" (1981) gained major success when the title track peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Country chart, followed by "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" and "Blue Moon with a Heartache," which also reached the top spot.
 The album's follow-up effort, "Somewhere in the Stars" (1982) produced two Top 10 hits on the "Billboard" chart.
 After a 3-year hiatus, Cash issued "Rhythm & Romance" in 1985, which reached #1 on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums list.
 It spawned four Top 10 singles.
 This included the number one single, "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me," which won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1986.
 Her sixth album, "King's Record Shop" was released in 1987.
 The album peaked at number six on the country albums chart and certified gold in the United States.
 The four singles released from "King's Record Shop" all reached number one on the "Billboard" Country chart between 1987 and 1988, including a cover of Johnny Cash's "Tennessee Flat-Top Box."
Get the Knack is the debut album by the Knack, released in June 1979.
 At the time, the album was one of the most successful debuts in history, selling over one million copies in less than two months and spending five weeks at number one on the "Billboard" 200 album chart.
 The lead single from the album, "My Sharona", was number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for six weeks and number one on Billboard's Top Pop Singles of 1979 year end chart.
 The follow-up single, "Good Girls Don't," followed "My Sharona" to #1 on the Canadian Singles Chart, and reached #11 in the U.S.
"My Sharona" is the debut single by the Knack.
 The song was written by Berton Averre and Doug Fieger, and released in 1979 from their album "Get the Knack".
 It reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart where it remained for 6 weeks, and was number one on "Billboard"' s 1979 Top Pop Singles year-end chart.
Swiss pop recording artist Patrick Nuo began his career in 2003, when he signed with Warner Music and released his debut album "Welcome" (2003).
 A top 20 chart success in Switzerland and Germany, it spawned three singles, including debut single "5 Days" and follow-up "Reanimate", which reached number 18 on the Swiss Singles Chart.
 The same year, Nuo joined Zeichen der Zeit, a Christian music project whose first single "Du bist nicht allein" became a top ten success in Germany.
 A second single released from the project's self-titled compilation album, "Ein weiterer Morgen", entered the top forty of the German Singles Chart the following year.
 Also in 2004, a reissue of "Welcome" was released.
 It produced the single "Undone", which served as the theme song for American comedy film "" (2004) in German-speaking Europe.
The discography of American recording artist Diana Ross, the former lead singer of The Supremes, consists of 25 studio albums and 91 singles.
 27 of her singles reached the "Billboard" Top 40 in the US, 12 of them the "Billboard" Top 10, and six of those reaching number-one, placing her in a tie for fifth among the top female solo performers who have reached the top spot there.
 In the UK, she amassed a total of 47 Top 40 singles with 20 of them reaching the Top 10 and two of those reaching number-one.
 In the U.S., 17 albums reached the "Billboard" Top 40, four of those the Top 10, and one album topping the chart.
 In the UK, 26 albums reached the Top 40, eight of those the Top Ten, and one album topping the chart.
 Ross had a Top 10 UK hit in every one of the last five decades, and sang lead on a Top 75 hit single at least once every year from 1964 to 1996 in the UK, a period of 33 consecutive years and a record for any performer.
 As of 2016 she continues to collect gold and silver awards for UK sales of her many greatest hits compilation albums.
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Camilleri, (born 21 May 1948 in Malta) aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent, is an Australian vocalist, songwriter and saxophonist.
 Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows.
 Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons' highest charting single was "Hit & Run" from June 1979, which peaked at #12; Jo Jo Zep's "Taxi Mary" peaked at No. 11 in September 1982; and The Black Sorrows top single, "Chained to the Wheel", peaked at No. 9 in March 1989.
"Ain't Love a Bitch" is a song written by Gary Grainger and Rod Stewart.
 Stewart released it on his 1978 album "Blondes Have More Fun", and it was one of four songs on the album co-written by Stewart and Grainger.
 The song was released as a single in 1979, reaching #11 on the UK charts, and #22 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in the United States.
 It spent 8 weeks on the UK charts and 6 weeks on the US charts.
 The song also reached the Top Ten in several countries, including Ireland.
 "Billboard" magazine placed Stewart #7 on its list of the Top Single Artists of 1979 on the strength of "Ain't Love a Bitch" and its predecessor, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
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Douglas Lars "Doug" Fieger (August 20, 1952 – February 14, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter-musician.
 He was the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock band The Knack, and co-wrote "My Sharona", the biggest hit song of 1979 in the USA, with lead guitarist Berton Averre.
Plumtree was a Canadian indie rock/power pop band formed in 1993 in Halifax which consisted of sisters Carla and Lynette Gillis, Amanda Braden, Nina Martin, and later Catriona Sturton.
 The band achieved moderate success during their seven years of activity, completing several tours of Canada and parts of the U.S., as well as releasing three full-length albums, a six track EP, and various singles, before finally disbanding in June 2000.
 The band is notable for their top single, "Scott Pilgrim", having been the inspiration for the title character in Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel series of the same name.