Top 40 Hits of August 1979
| 1 | The Boomtown Rats | I Don't Like Mondays |
| 2 | Cliff Richard | We Don't Talk Anymore |
| 3 | Abba | Angeleyes / Voulez Vous |
| 4 | The Police | Can't Stand Losing You |
| 5 | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) |
| 6 | Earth Wind & Fire | After The Love Has Gone |
| 7 | The Dooleys | Wanted |
| 8 | BA Robertson | Bang Bang |
| 9 | Sham 69 | Hersham Boys |
| 10 | Darts | Duke Of Earl |
| 11 | Electric Light Orchestra | The Diary Of Horace Wimp |
| 12 | Dave Edmunds | Girls Talk |
| 13 | The Special AKA | Gangsters |
| 14 | Sparks | Beat The Clock |
| 15 | Roxy Music | Angel Eyes |
| 16 | The Gibson Brothers | Ooh What A Life |
| 17 | Patrick Hernandez | Born To Be Alive |
| 18 | The Knack | My Sharona |
| 19 | Showaddywaddy | Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller |
| 20 | Supertramp | Breakfast In America |
| 21 | Judie Tzuke | Stay With Me Till Dawn |
| 22 | The Korgis | If I Had You |
| 23 | Spyro Gyra | Morning Dance |
| 24 | Janet Kay | Silly Games |
| 25 | Joe Jackson | Is She Really Going Out With Him |
| 26 | Chic | Good Times |
| 27 | The Flying Lizards | Money |
| 28 | Randy Vanwarmer | Just When I Needed You Most |
| 29 | Tubeway Army | Are 'Friends' Electric |
| 30 | Donna Summer | Bad Girls |
| 31 | Boney M | Gotta Go Home / El Lute |
| 32 | The Sex Pistols | C'mon Everybody |
| 33 | The Beach Boys | Lady Lynda |
| 34 | Me & You | You Never Know What You've Got |
| 35 | Angelic Upstarts | Teenage Warning |
| 36 | Sister Sledge | Lost In Music |
| 37 | The Crusaders | Street Life |
| 38 | The Bellamy Brothers | If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me |
| 39 | Kandidate | Girls Girls Girls |
| 40 | Johnny Mathis | Gone Gone Gone |