What is now called the "Billboard Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart", began on October 26, 1974 as the "Billboard Disco Action chart".  Here is a list of every song to peak at #1 (including weeks at #1) on the Billboard Disco Action charts from October 26, 1974 - December 29, 1979.

Enjoy :)

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- 1974 -

Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor (4 weeks)
Express - B.T. Express (5 weeks)
I'll Be Holding On - Al Dowling (1 week in 1974 / 2 weeks in 1975)

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- 1975 -

Shame, Shame, Shame - Shirley & Company (4 Weeks)
Hijack - Herbie Mann (3 weeks)
Bad Luck - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (11 weeks)
Ease on Down the Road - Consumer Rapport (4 weeks + 1 re-chart)
Free Man - South Shore Commission (1 week)
Forever Came Today - Jackson 5 (3 weeks + 1 re-chart)
Dreaming A Dream - Crown Heights Affair (1 week)
Brazil - The Ritchie Family (7 weeks)
Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention (3 weeks)
Casanova Brown/(If You Want It) Do It Yourself/How High the Moon - Gloria Gaynor (1 week)
Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer (4 weeks)
I Love Music - The O'Jays (6 weeks in 1975, 2 weeks in 1976)

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- 1976 -

Mighty High - Mighty Clouds of Joy (5 weeks)
Movin' - Brass Construction (4 weeks)
Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson (4 weeks)
Love Hangover - Diana Ross (2 weeks)
Try Me, I Know We Can Make it - Donna Summer (3 weeks)
That's Where the Happy People Go - The Trammps (2 weeks)
Disco Party - The Trammps (5 weeks)
Trouble-Maker - Roberta Kelly (2 weeks)
Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares (2 weeks)
The Best Disco in Town - The Ritchie Family (1 week)
You Should Be Dancing - The Bee Gees (7 weeks)
Cherchez La Femme / Sour and Sweet / I'll Play the Fool - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (1 week)
My Sweet Summer Suite / Brazilian Love Song - Love Unlimited Orchestra (2 weeks + 1 re-chart)
Midnight Love Affair / Crime Don't Pay - Carol Douglas (1 week)
Down to Love Town - The Originals (1 week)
Four Seasons of All Love (All Cuts) - Donna Summer (6 weeks)
Don't Leave Me This Way / Any Way You Like it - Thelma Houston (1 week in 1976, 5 weeks in 1977)

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- 1977 -

Disco Inferno / Starvin' / Body Contact Contract - The Trammps (6 weeks)
Do What You Wanna Do - T-Connection (7 weeks)
I Need A Man - Grace Jones (2 weeks)
Got to Give it Up - Marvin Gaye (1 week)
Devil's Gun / We Got Our Own Thing / Sure Can't Go To the Moon - C.J. and Company (5 weeks)
I Remember Yesterday (All Cuts) - Donna Summer (3 weeks)
Accidental Lover / I Found Love (Now That I Found You) - Love and Kisses (3 weeks)
Quiet Village / African Queens / Summer Dance - The Ritchie Family (3 weeks)
Village People (all cuts) - Village People (7 weeks)
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) / Everybody Dance / You Can Get By - Chic (8 weeks)
Once Upon A Time ... (All Cuts) - Donna Summer (3 weeks in 1977, 2 weeks in 1978)

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- 1978 -

Supernature / Give Me Love / Love Is Here - Cerrone (4 weeks)
Let's All Chant / Love Express - Michael Zeger (1 week)
Dance Little Dreamer / Risky Changes - Bionic Boogie (3 weeks)
Romeo & Juliet - Alec R. Costandinos & the Syncophonic Orchestra (1 week)
Come Into My Heart (all cuts) - USA European Connection (2 weeks)
Voyage (All Cuts) - Voyage (3 weeks)
If My Friends Could See Me Now / Gypsy Lady / Runaway Love - Linda Clifford (5 weeks)

Last Dance / After Dark / Thank God It's Friday / Take It To the Zoo - Donna Summer / Pattie Brooks / Love & Kisses / Sunshine (6 weeks)

Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey (3 weeks)
Hot Shot - Karen Young (2 weeks)
Dance (Disco Heat) / You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester (6 weeks)
Keep On Jumpin' / In the Bush - Musique (2 weeks)
Instant Replay (All Cuts) - Dan Hartman (1 week)
MacArthur Park Suite - Donna Summer (5 weeks)
Le Freak / I Want Your Love / Chic Cheer - Chic (6 weeks in 1978 / 1 week in 1979)

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- 1979 -

Contact - Edwin Starr (1 week)
Fly Away (All Cuts) - Voyage (1 week)
I Will Survive / Substitute / Anybody Wanna Party? / I Said Yes - Gloria Gaynor (3 weeks)
Keep On Dancin' / Do It At the Disco / Let's Lovedance Tonight - Gary's Gang (1 week)
Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart (3 weeks)
I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl) - Instant Funk (1 week)
He's the Greatest Dancer / We Are Family - Sister Sledge (2 weeks)
Dancer / Dance To Dance - Gino Soccio (6 weeks)
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward (1 week)
Hot Stuff / Bad Girls - Donna Summer (7 weeks)
Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez (3 weeks)
I've Got the Next Dance - Deniece Williams (1 week)
This Time Baby - Jackie Moore (1 week)
Here Comes That Sound Again - Love De-Luxe (1 week)
The Boss (All Cuts) - Diana Ross (2 weeks)
Found A Cure / Stay Free / Nobody Knows - Ashford and Simpson (2 weeks)
Come To Me / Don't Stop Dancing / Playboy - France Joli (3 weeks)
Move On Up / Up Up Up / Destination's Theme - Destination (4 weeks)
Harmony / Ooh, La La - Suzi Lane (1 week)
Beat Of the Night / Pump It Up - Fever (1 week)
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand (4 weeks)
Deputy Of Love - Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band (2 weeks)

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Funny lists.
I've seen those "dance music" charts in the 1970s Billboards. Most of those songs probably haven't been heard anywhere since about 1980.

I wonder, out of all those songs there are probably 2 or 3 that are pretty good and worth hearing, just forgotten. Anyone care to find them??  ;D

I'm surprised that Don't Bring Me Down by ELO didn't make that list.  I know that it was considered disco at the time it came out, no matter what people think it should be classified as now.

I'm surprised that Don't Bring Me Down by ELO didn't make that list.  I know that it was considered disco at the time it came out, no matter what people think it should be classified as now.


It probably made top 10 or something I am sure :)

saw a guest viewing this.  I love it when guests view threads I make O0

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