Top 40 Hits of Early May 1979
| 1 | Art Garfunkel | Bright Eyes |
| 2 | M | Pop Muzik |
| 3 | Racey | Some Girls |
| 4 | Boney M | Hooray Hooray It's A Holi-Holiday |
| 5 | Wings | Goodnight Tonight |
| 6 | Abba | Does Your Mother Know |
| 7 | The Jacksons | Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) |
| 8 | Milk & Honey | Hallelujah |
| 9 | Amii Stewart | Knock On Wood |
| 10 | Supertramp | The Logical Song |
| 11 | Peaches & Herb | Reunited |
| 12 | Squeeze | Cool For Cats |
| 13 | The Dickies | Banana Splits |
| 14 | The Bee Gees | Love You Inside Out |
| 15 | Kandidate | I Don't Wanna Lose You |
| 16 | Eruption | One Way Ticket |
| 17 | Gonzalez | Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet |
| 18 | The Three Degrees | The Runner |
| 19 | Neil Diamond | Forever In Blue Jeans |
| 20 | David Bowie | Boys Keep Swingin' |
| 21 | Sister Sledge | He's The Greatest Dancer |
| 22 | The Police | Roxanne |
| 23 | The Sex Pistols & Ten Pole Tudor | Silly Thing / Who Killed Bambi |
| 24 | Gary Moore | Parisienne Walkways |
| 25 | Mike Oldfield | Guilty |
| 26 | Roxy Music | Dance Away |
| 27 | Siouxsie & The Banshees | The Staircase |
| 28 | The Undertones | Jimmy Jimmy |
| 29 | Kate Bush | Wow |
| 30 | Showaddywaddy | Remember Then |
| 31 | Generation X | Valley Of The Dolls |
| 32 | The Monks | Nice Legs Shame About Her Face |
| 33 | George Benson | Love Ballad |
| 34 | The Damned | Love Song |
| 35 | Angelic Upstarts | I'm An Upstart |
| 36 | Child | Only You |
| 37 | Sparks | The Number One Song In Heaven |
| 38 | Linda Clifford | Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| 39 | Sham 69 | Questions And Answers |
| 40 | The Shadows | Theme From 'the Deer Hunter' (Cavatina) |