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What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

1. #1CryingDon McLean
2. #2FunkytownLipps Inc
3. #3XanaduOlivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra
4. #4Back Together AgainRoberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
5. #5Everybody's Got To Learn SometimeThe Korgis
6. #6Jump to the BeatStacy Lattisaw
7. #7Simon Templar/Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps PleaseSplodgenessabounds
8. #8My Way of Thinking/I Think It's Going to RainUB40
9. #9To Be or Not to BeB.A. Robertson
10. #10Behind the GrooveTeena Marie

Every other song that reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980.

• Another Brick in the Wall · Pink Floyd
• Brass in Pocket · Pretenders
• Too Much Too Young (the Special AKA Live! Ep) · Specials
• Coward Of The County · Kenny Rogers
• Atomic · Blondie
• Together We Are Beautiful · Fern Kinney
• Going Underground/Dreams of Children · The Jam
• Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me, Girl · The Spinners
• Call Me · Blondie
• Geno · Dexys Midnight Runners
• What's Another Year · Johnny Logan
• Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) · Mash
• Crying · Don McLean
• Xanadu · Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra
• Use It Up and Wear It Out · Odyssey
• The Winner Takes It All · ABBA
• Ashes to Ashes · David Bowie
• Start · The Jam
• Feels Like I'm in Love · Kelly Marie
• Don't Stand So Close To Me · The Police
• Woman In Love · Barbra Streisand
• The Tide Is High · Blondie
• Super Trouper · ABBA
• (Just Like) Starting Over · John Lennon
• There's No One Quite Like Grandma · St. Winifred's School Choir