This was such a good year for music fans.

You probably love these songs, even if you didn't know that they were some of the biggest hits of the year 1979.

New wave was still a baby genre in 1979, but these songs previewed just how far the genre would go in the 1980s.

In 1979, radio was dominated by one of the most romantic country love songs ever written, a tender ballad that quickly became one of Kenny Rogers’ most beloved signature hits. "You Decorated My Life" ...

To say 1979 was Cheap Trick's finest year would be something of an understatement. The band was a genre-flexing mash of power pop, new wave, and glam rock, with some spiky punk-lite edges that poked ...