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 | The Undertones | Jimmy Jimmy |
 | 28 | Siouxsie & The Banshees | The Staircase |
 | 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) |