This is a summary of 1979 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Electropop reached number one in both the singles and albums charts in the form of Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, and synthesiser bands began to gather momentum which would come to dominate music in the early 1980s.
1979 remains the year when physical-format singles hit their sales peak in the UK.
However, from 1977 to 1982 BMRB produced updated charts a few months later which included the missing final weeks' sales for each year.
No updated chart appears to exist for 1979, so the tables below include only sales between 1 January and 8 December 1979.