According to RPM magazine, the biggest song of 1980 in Canada was Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”. Just four songs from the year-end top 100 chart below are from Canadian artists which have been bolded in red. The top Canadian song was Martha and the Muffins’ (also known as M+M) “Echo Beach” (#16). The Canadian charts are an accurate reflection of Canadian tastes in music, and the Top 100 songs were determined both from nationwide sales and radio airplay data. The drawback with year-end charts is that songs charting from the end of one year through beginning of the next will have their chart performance split between the two years. On a side note, the original chart from RPM magazine is missing #36. We have assumed that it is Air Supply’s “All Out of Love” as it was the only top 5 hit through the year absent from the chart. More year-end and other Canadian charts can be found here.
| RANK | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 1 | Another Brick in the Wall II | Pink Floyd |
| 2 | Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen |
| 3 | Call Me | Blondie |
| 4 | Coward of the County | Kenny Rogers |
| 5 | Cars | Gary Numan |
| 6 | It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me | Billy Joel |
| 7 | Misunderstanding | Genesis |
| 8 | Please Don’t Go | K.C. & the Sunshine Band |
| 9 | The Rose | Bette Midler |
| 10 | Magic | Olivia Newton-John |
| 11 | Coming Up | Paul McCartney |
| 12 | Emotional Rescue | Rolling Stones |
| 13 | Ladies Night | Kool and the Gang |
| 14 | Funkytown | Lipps Inc |
| 15 | Little Jeannie | Elton John |
| 16 | Echo Beach | Martha and the Muffins |
| 17 | Rock with You | Michael Jackson |
| 18 | Refugee | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| 19 | Escape | Rupert Holmes |
| 20 | Rock Lobster | The B-52s |
| 21 | Ride Like the Wind | Christopher Cross |
| 22 | Fire Lake | Bob Seger |
| 23 | On the Radio | Donna Summer |
| 24 | Sailing | Christopher Cross |
| 25 | Do That to Me One More Time | Captain & Tennille |
| 26 | An American Dream | The Dirt Band |
| 27 | Rapper’s Delight | The Sugarhill Gang |
| 28 | Tired of Toein’ the Line | Rocky Burnette |
| 29 | We Don’t Talk Anymore | Cliff Richard |
| 30 | Video Killed the Radio Star | The Buggles |
| 31 | Boulevard | Jackson Browne |
| 32 | Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer | Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes |
| 33 | Another One Bites the Dust | Queen |
| 34 | Message in a Bottle | The Police |
| 35 | Let My Love Open the Door | Pete Townshend |
| 36 | All Out of Love | Air Supply |
| 37 | Don’t Do Me Like That | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| 38 | Pilot of the Airwaves | Charlie Dore |
| 39 | Babe | Styx |
| 40 | You May Be Right | Billy Joel |
| 41 | Against the Wind | Bob Seger |
| 42 | Brass in Pocket | The Pretenders |
| 43 | I Can’t Tell You Why | The Eagles |
| 44 | Working My Way Back to You | The Spinners |
| 45 | Don’t Ask Me Why | Billy Joel |
| 46 | Cocaine/Tulsa Time | Eric Clapton |
| 47 | Romeo’s Tune | Steve Forbert |
| 48 | Fine State of Affairs | Burton Cummings |
| 49 | Janine | Trooper |
| 50 | Shining Star | The Manhattans |
| 51 | Lost in Love | Air Supply |
| 52 | Upside Down | Diana Ross |
| 53 | We Live For Love | Pat Benatar |
| 54 | This Is It | Kenny Loggins |
| 55 | I Don’t Like Mondays | The Boomtown Rats |
| 56 | Woman in Love | Barbara Streisand |
| 57 | Games Without Frontiers | Peter Gabriel |
| 58 | No More Tears | Streisand/Summer |
| 59 | Money | The Flying Lizards |
| 60 | I’m Alive | ELO |
| 61 | Dreamer | Supertramp |
| 62 | The Long Run | The Eagles |
| 63 | The Wanderer | Donna Summer |
| 64 | Why Me | Styx |
| 65 | Sexy Eyes | Dr. Hook |
| 66 | Don’t Stand So Close to Me | The Police |
| 67 | Breakdown Dead Ahead | Boz Scaggs |
| 68 | Desire | Andy Gibb |
| 69 | Off the Wall | Michael Jackson |
| 70 | You’ll Accompany Me | Bob Seger |
| 71 | Xanadu | Olivia Newton-John |
| 72 | With You I’m Born Again | Billy Preston |
| 73 | Yes I’m Ready | Teri DeSario |
| 74 | Send One Your Love | Stevie Wonder |
| 75 | I’m Alright | Kenny Loggins |
| 76 | Take the Long Way Home | Supertramp |
| 77 | Still | The Commodores |
| 78 | Making Plans for Nigel | XTC |
| 79 | She’s So Cold | The Rolling Stones |
| 80 | Cool Change | Little River Band |
| 81 | Sara | Fleetwood Mac |
| 82 | Fool in the Rain | Led Zeppelin |
| 83 | Dreaming | Cliff Richard |
| 84 | Real Love | The Doobie Brothers |
| 85 | Into the Night | Benny Mardones |
| 86 | Jane | Jefferson Starship |
| 87 | It’s Hard to Be Humble | Mac Davis |
| 88 | All Night Long | Joe Walsh |
| 89 | Heartache Tonight | The Eagles |
| 90 | More Love | Kim Carnes |
| 91 | Let’s Talk Dirty | The Knack |
| 92 | Steal Away | Robbie Dupree |
| 93 | Turning Japanese | The Vapors |
| 94 | Dream Police | Cheap Trick |
| 95 | Head Games | Foreigner |
| 96 | Peter Piper | Frank Mills |
| 97 | Let Me Love You Tonight | Pure Prairie League |
| 98 | He’s So Shy | The Pointer Sisters |
| 99 | Jesse | Carly Simon |
| 100 | Him | Rupert Holmes |
