Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1978. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia |
| 999 | Homicide | ☆ |
| A Taste of Honey | Boogie Oogie Oogie | ☆ |
| Ace Frehley | New York Groove | ☆ |
| Aerosmith | Come Together | ☆ |
| Al Burton, Alan Thicke, and Gloria Loring | Diff'rent Strokes | ☆ |
| Al Stewart | Time Passages | ☆ |
| Alicia Bridges | I Love the Nightlife | ☆ |
| Amii Stewart | Knock on Wood | ☆ |
| Andrew Gold | Thank You for Being a Friend | ☆ |
| Andy Gibb | Shadow Dancing | ☆ |
| Anne Murray | You Needed Me | ☆ |
| Ashford & Simpson | It Seems to Hang On | ☆ |
| Atlanta Rhythm Section | Imaginary Lover | ☆ |
| Barbara Mandrell | Sleeping Single in a Double Bed | ☆ |
| Barbra & Neil | You Don't Bring Me Flowers | ☆ |
| Barbra Streisand | Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars) | ☆ |
| Barnes & Barnes | Fish Heads | ☆ |
| Barry Manilow | Copacabana (At the Copa) | ☆ |
| Barry Manilow | Can't Smile Without You | ☆ |
| Barry Manilow | Even Now | ☆ |
| Barry Manilow | Ready to Take a Chance Again | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | My Life | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Big Shot | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Honesty | ☆ |
| Black Flag | Nervous Breakdown | ☆ |
| Blondie | Heart Of Glass | ☆ |
| Blondie | One Way Or Another | ☆ |
| Blondie | Hanging On the Telephone | ☆ |
| Bob James | Angela (Theme from Taxi) | ☆ |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | Is This Love | ☆ |
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | Old Time Rock And Roll | ☆ |
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | Still the Same | ☆ |
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | We've Got Tonite | ☆ |
| Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band | Hollywood Nights | ☆ |
| Bobby Caldwell | What You Won't Do for Love | ☆ |
| Boney M. | Rasputin | ☆ |
| Boney M. | Rivers of Babylon | ☆ |
| Bonnie Pointer | Heaven Must Have Sent You | ☆ |
| Boston | Don't Look Back | ☆ |
| Bruce Springsteen | Badlands | ☆ |
| Bruce Springsteen | Prove It All Night | ☆ |
| Bruce Springsteen | Darkness on the Edge of Town | ☆ |
| Bruce Springsteen | The Promised Land | ☆ |
| Buzzcocks | Ever Fallen in Love | ☆ |
| Buzzcocks | What Do I Get | ☆ |
| Carly Simon | You Belong to Me | ☆ |
| Chaka Khan | I'm Every Woman | ☆ |
| Cheap Trick | Surrender | ☆ |
| Cheap Trick | On Top of the World | ☆ |
| Cheryl Lynn | Got to Be Real | ☆ |
| Chic | Le Freak | ☆ |
| Chic | I Want Your Love | ☆ |
| Chris Bell | I Am the Cosmos | ☆ |
| Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro | Stumblin' In | ☆ |
| Chris Rea | Fool (If You Think It's Over) | ☆ |
| Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg | The Power of Gold | ☆ |
| Devo | Uncontrollable Urge | ☆ |
| Devo | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | ☆ |
| Devo | Jocko Homo | ☆ |
| Dire Straits | Sultans Of Swing | ☆ |
| Donna Summer | Last Dance | ☆ |
| Donna Summer | MacArthur Park | ☆ |
| Donna Summer feat. Brooklyn Dreams | Heaven Knows | ☆ |
| Dr. Hook | When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman | ☆ |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | September | ☆ |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | Got to Get You Into My Life | ☆ |
| Elvis Costello | Pump It Up | ☆ |
| Elvis Costello | Radio, Radio | ☆ |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea | ☆ |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | This Year's Girl | ☆ |
| Eric Clapton | Promises | ☆ |
| Exile | Kiss You All Over | ☆ |
| Firefall | Strange Way | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Double Vision | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Hot Blooded | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Blue Morning, Blue Day | ☆ |
| Frankie Valli | Grease | ☆ |
| Funkadelic | One Nation Under a Groove | ☆ |
| Gang of Four | Damaged Goods | ☆ |
| Generation X | Ready Steady Go | ☆ |
| Genesis | Follow You Follow Me | ☆ |
| George Benson | On Broadway | ☆ |
| George Thorogood & the Destroyers | Move It On Over | ☆ |
| George Thorogood & The Destroyers | Who Do You Love? | ☆ |
| Gerry Rafferty | Baker Street | ☆ |
| Gerry Rafferty | Right Down the Line | ☆ |
| Gino Vannelli | I Just Wanna Stop | ☆ |
| Giorgio Moroder | Chase | ☆ |
| Gloria Gaynor | I Will Survive | ☆ |
| Heart | Straight On | ☆ |
| Hot Chocolate | Every 1's a Winner | ☆ |
| Ian Dury and the Blockheads | Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick | ☆ |
| Jefferson Starship | Count on Me | ☆ |
| Jimmy Buffett | Cheeseburger in Paradise | ☆ |
| Jimmy Buffett | Son of a Son of a Sailor | ☆ |
| Joe Jackson | Is She Really Going Out With Him? | ☆ |
| Joe Walsh | Life's Been Good | ☆ |
| John Carpenter | Halloween | ☆ |
| John Prine | That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round | ☆ |
| John Travolta | Greased Lightnin' | ☆ |
| John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John | Summer Nights | ☆ |
| John Williams | Theme from Superman (Main Title) | ☆ |
| Journey | Wheel in the Sky | ☆ |
| Journey | Lights | ☆ |
| Judas Priest | Beyond the Realms of Death | ☆ |
| Judas Priest | Better by You, Better than Me | ☆ |
| Kate Bush | Wuthering Heights | ☆ |
| Kate Bush | The Man With the Child In His Eyes | ☆ |
| Kate Bush | In Search of Peter Pan | ☆ |
| Kate Bush | Hammer Horror | ☆ |
| KC and the Sunshine Band | Boogie Shoes | ☆ |
| Kenny Loggins with Stevie Nicks | Whenever I Call You Friend | ☆ |
| Kenny Rogers | The Gambler | ☆ |
| Kenny Rogers | She Believes in Me | ☆ |
| Kraftwerk | The Model | ☆ |
| Kraftwerk | The Robots | ☆ |
| Kraftwerk | The Man Machine | ☆ |
| Kraftwerk | Neon Lights | ☆ |
| Linda Ronstadt | Just One Look | ☆ |
| Linda Ronstadt | Ooh Baby Baby | ☆ |
| Little River Band | Reminiscing | ☆ |
| Little River Band | Lady | ☆ |
| Melissa Manchester | Don't Cry Out Loud | ☆ |
| Neil Diamond | Forever in Blue Jeans | ☆ |
| Nick Gilder | Hot Child in the City | ☆ |
| Nicolette Larson | Lotta Love | ☆ |
| Olivia Newton-John | Hopelessly Devoted to You | ☆ |
| Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta | You're the One That I Want | ☆ |
| Olivia-Newton John | A Little More Love | ☆ |
| Pablo Cruise | Love Will Find a Way | ☆ |
| Parliament | Aqua Boogie | ☆ |
| Patrick Hernandez | Born to Be Alive | ☆ |
| Patti Smith Group | Because The Night | ☆ |
| Patti Smith Group | Privilege (Set Me Free) | ☆ |
| Peaches & Herb | Reunited | ☆ |
| Peaches and Herb | Shake Your Groove Thing | ☆ |
| Peru Ubu | Non-Alignment Pact | ☆ |
| Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger | (You Gotta Walk And) Don't Look Back | ☆ |
| Poco | Crazy Love | ☆ |
| Public Image Ltd. | Public Image | ☆ |
| Queen | Don't Stop Me Now | ☆ |
| Queen | Fat Bottomed Girls | ☆ |
| Queen | Bicycle Race | ☆ |
| Quincy Jones | Stuff Like That | ☆ |
| Ramones | I Wanna Be Sedated | ☆ |
| Ramones | I Just Want to Have Something to Do | ☆ |
| REO Speedwagon | Time for Me to Fly | ☆ |
| REO Speedwagon | Roll with the Changes | ☆ |
| Rick James | Mary Jane | ☆ |
| Robert Palmer | Every Kinda People | ☆ |
| Rod Stewart | Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? | ☆ |
| Sid Vicious | My Way | ☆ |
| Siouxsie And The Banshees | Hong Kong Garden | ☆ |
| Sniff 'n' the Tears | Driver's Seat | ☆ |
| Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes | Hearts of Stone | ☆ |
| Steely Dan | FM (No Static at All) | ☆ |
| Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons | King Tut | ☆ |
| Styx | Renegade | ☆ |
| Styx | Blue Collar Man | ☆ |
| Sun Ra | Lanquidity | ☆ |
| Sweet | Love Is Like Oxygen | ☆ |
| Sylvester | You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) | ☆ |
| Talking Heads | Take Me To The River | ☆ |
| Tanya Tucker | Texas (When I Die) | ☆ |
| The B-52's | Rock Lobster | ☆ |
| The Bee Gees | Too Much Heaven | ☆ |
| The Cars | Just What I Needed | ☆ |
| The Cars | My Best Friend's Girl | ☆ |
| The Cars | Good Times Roll | ☆ |
| The Cars | Moving In Stereo | ☆ |
| The Cars | You're All I've Got Tonight | ☆ |
| The Cars | Bye Bye Love | ☆ |
| The Cars | All Mixed Up | ☆ |
| The Clash | (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais | ☆ |
| The Commodores | Three Times a Lady | ☆ |
| The Cramps | Human Fly | ☆ |
| The Cure | Killing an Arab | ☆ |
| The Dictators | Stay with Me | ☆ |
| The Doobie Brothers | What A Fool Believes | ☆ |
| The Doobie Brothers | Minute by Minute | ☆ |
| The Germs | Lexicon Devil | ☆ |
| The Grateful Dead | Shakedown Street | ☆ |
| The Grateful Dead | Fire on the Mountain | ☆ |
| The Human League | Being Boiled | ☆ |
| The Isley Brothers | Groove With You, Parts 1 & 2 | ☆ |
| The Isley Brothers | Take Me to the Next Phase | ☆ |
| The Jacksons | Blame It on the Boogie | ☆ |
| The Jacksons | Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) | ☆ |
| The Kinks | (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman | ☆ |
| The O'Jays | Use Ta Be My Girl | ☆ |
| The Only Ones | Another Girl, Another Planet | ☆ |
| The Pointer Sisters | Fire | ☆ |
| The Police | Roxanne | ☆ |
| The Police | So Lonely | ☆ |
| The Police | Can't Stand Losing You | ☆ |
| The Records | Starry Eyes | ☆ |
| The Rolling Stones | Beast Of Burden | ☆ |
| The Rolling Stones | Miss You | ☆ |
| The Rolling Stones | Shattered | ☆ |
| The Undertones | Teenage Kicks | ☆ |
| The Village People | Y.M.C.A. | ☆ |
| The Village People | Macho Man | ☆ |
| The Walker Brothers | The Electrician | ☆ |
| The Who | Who Are You | ☆ |
| Throbbing Gristle | Hamburger Lady | ☆ |
| Todd Rundgren | Can We Still Be Friends | ☆ |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | I Need to Know | ☆ |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Listen to Her Heart | ☆ |
| Toto | Hold the Line | ☆ |
| Van Halen | Runnin' With The Devil | ☆ |
| Van Halen | Eruption | ☆ |
| Van Halen | Ain't Talkin' About Love | ☆ |
| Van Halen | Jamie's Cryin' | ☆ |
| Warren Zevon | Werewolves Of London | ☆ |
| Warren Zevon | Lawyers, Guns and Money | ☆ |
| Warren Zevon | Excitable Boy | ☆ |
| Warren Zevon | Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner | ☆ |
| Warren Zevon | Accidentally Like a Martyr | ☆ |
| Waylon Jennings | Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand | ☆ |
| Wings | With a Little Luck | ☆ |
| Wire | Outdoor Miner | ☆ |
| Yellow Magic Orchestra | Computer Game / Firecracker | ☆ |
