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Jul 29, 20156 min read
This Week In 1990: July 29, 1990
Of all the musical oddities I've recapped while writing this blog, few singles are as random as the ballad duet that debuted on the ARIA...
Jul 22, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: July 22, 1990
Rock music was changing in 1990 — and there was no greater proof of that than the highest new entry on the ARIA singles chart this week...
Jul 15, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: July 15, 1990
The Honeydrippers, The Power Station, The Travelling Wilburys... so far in our look back at the ARIA charts of the late '80s and early...
Jul 8, 20153 min read
This Week In 1990: July 8, 1990
I've made no secret of my disdain for Heart's chart-topper, "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", in recent weeks — think of it as my...
Jul 1, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: July 1, 1990
Music and sport don't often mix — and when they do, it's usually a disaster (think Jacko, Gazza, Shaquille O'Neal). But every so often, a...
Jun 24, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: June 24, 1990
Over the previous decade, there had been the odd rap hit on the Australian chart. From Blondie's "Rapture" (number 5) and "The Message"...
Jun 17, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: June 17, 1990
Nancy Sinatra. Natalie Cole. Miley Cyrus. Daughters of musicians themselves becoming hit artists has been going on for decades, but in...
Jun 10, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: June 10, 1990
Periodic reinventions are a necessary part of any pop act's career — and no one knows that more than the singer who went through her...
Jun 3, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: June 3, 1990
It's always fun to discover a song you always thought was originally performed by the artist who had a hit with it was actually a cover...
May 27, 20157 min read
This Week In 1990: May 27, 1990
Sometimes artists never do any better than their debut hit, but often, performers move on to a long and varied career — and the initial...
May 20, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: May 20, 1990
In my flashback to 1985 for this week, we saw a number of duos hit the ARIA chart. Five years later, one half of the biggest duo in the...
May 13, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: May 13, 1990
After last week's ballad-heavy slew of new singles, the ARIA chart perked up a little this week in 1990 with six new entries that...
May 6, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: May 6, 1990
Rock ballads, power ballads, electro ballads, piano ballads... sometimes nothing beats an emotive downtempo number. This week in 1990,...
Apr 29, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: April 29, 1990
She'd ruled the charts in the second half of the '80s, but the '90s hadn't got off to a great start for Madonna with the worst...
Apr 22, 20153 min read
This Week In 1990: April 22, 1990
By 1990, it was nothing new for a soap star to try their hand at being a pop star — and quite often the songs that would take them into...
Apr 15, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: April 15, 1990
When you think of Detroit, one of the first things that comes to mind is Motown. Seattle is synonymous with grunge music. And this week...
Apr 8, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: April 8, 1990
In the 1980s, I liked the odd bit of middle-of-the-road music as much as anyone. Phil Collins, Toto, Chicago (who we saw on my 1985...
Apr 1, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: April 1, 1990
Unlike today, when albums sales are perilously low, back in 1990, the album was all-important — and artists would often keep an album...
Mar 25, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: March 25, 1990
When it came to using other musicians' works, it was still a bit of a free-for-all in 1990. Record companies and, more importantly, the...
Mar 18, 20153 min read
This Week In 1990: March 18, 1990
Guess it would've been too much to expect another week like last week on the ARIA chart. After a flood of new entries into the top 50,...
