Debbie Boone released her first solo effort, "You Light Up My Life," in 1977. The song became the biggest hit of the 1970s [5] spending ten consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — longer than any other song in Hot 100 history to that point.[6] (In 2008, Billboard ranked the song No. 7 among all songs that charted in the 50 year history of the Hot 100.)
