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List of Billboard number-one disco singles of 1978

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Source revisionJun 7, 2026
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The National Disco Action Top 40 was a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, which ranked the popularity of disco singles in nightclubs across the country, based on a national survey of club disc jockeys.

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See also

1978 in music

List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1978

References

Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16, retrieved 2010-03-26

Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1975—1979.

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