The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1979. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1979. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
| Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Breakfast in America | 1 | 6 | ||
| 2. | Discovery | 1 | 6 | ||
| 3. | Dynasty | 2 | |||
| 4. | Blondes Have More Fun | 1 | 6 | ||
| 5. | 52nd Street | 1 | 5 (pkd #1 in 1978 & 79) | ||
| 6. | Spirits Having Flown | 1 | 5 | ||
| 7. | The Bob Seger Collection | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8. | The Very Best of Leo Sayer | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9. | Rickie Lee Jones | 1 | 6 | ||
| 10. | Dire Straits | 1 | 3 (pkd #1 in 1978) | ||
| 11. | Minute by Minute | 6 | |||
| 12. | Parallel Lines | 2 | |||
| 13. | Toto | 2 | |||
| 14. | Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 | 2 | |||
| 15. | Breakfast at Sweethearts | 4 | |||
| 16. | In Through the Out Door | 3 | |||
| 17. | Face to Face | 18 | |||
| 18. | Slow Train Coming | 1 | 2 | ||
| 19. | Get the Knack | 1 | 4 | ||
| 20. | You Don't Bring Me Flowers | 5 | |||
| 21. | Bad Girls | 6 | |||
| 22. | Back to the Egg | 3 | |||
| 23. | Nicolette | 6 | |||
| 24. | Fate for Breakfast | 3 | |||
| 25. | The Long Run | 1 | 3 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.