[19][20] The song Miserarete [ja] by Judy Ongg won the Japan Record Award.
[50] The music of The Castle of Cagliostro is by Yuji Ohno,[51] and the singer of Hono no Takara Mono (or "Fire Treasure") is Bobby (ボビー).
[54] Average sales for the 1979 Christmas and New Year season were ten percent higher than those of the 1978 Christmas and New Year season, with particularly high sales for ABBA, Saki Kubota, Masashi Sada and Alice.
[56] The song "Kiss in the Dark", by Pink Lady, reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States of America.
[57] Pink Lady were the first Japanese musicians to enter the record charts in the United States since Kyu Sakamoto in 1963.
[60] Foreign music In 2008, Shūkan Shōwa Taimuzu featured Judy Ongg on the back cover as person of the moment (Japanese: 時の人) for 1979.