CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

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Mar 17, 20164 min read

This Week In 1991: March 17, 1991

Sometimes it can take a while for a song to catch on and become a hit — and often the delayed attention can be down to the track's use in...

Mar 10, 20164 min read

This Week In 1991: March 10, 1991

After last week's clear out on the ARIA singles chart, you might have expected things to be a bit quieter this week in 1991. Wrong — the...

Mar 3, 20167 min read

This Week In 1991: March 3, 1991

Despite last week being the anniversary of my favourite song of all time debuting on the ARIA top 50, not much else was happening. The...

Feb 24, 20164 min read

This Week In 1991: February 24, 1991

Given how big a fan of '80s music I am, you might think that my all-time favourite song would come from that decade. Actually, it's a...

Feb 17, 20164 min read

This Week In 1991: February 17, 1991

Each week when I sit down to write these blog posts about the ARIA singles chart from decades past, I look for some kind of pattern or...

Feb 10, 20164 min read

This Week In 1991: February 10, 1991

It's one thing when one artist you don't particularly like releases a new single, but when two artists you can't stand team up for a...

Feb 3, 20163 min read

This Week In 1991: February 3, 1991

Some artists are great at reinventing themselves — able to tell when it's a good idea to change musical direction or make over their...

Jan 27, 20165 min read

This Week In 1991: January 27, 1991

Every so often, TV characters will become so popular that someone will think it's a great idea for them to release a single. On this blog...

Jan 20, 20163 min read

This Week In 1991: January 20, 1991

You'd think dance acts would have wised up after what happened to Milli Vanilli. Or Black Box. Or Technotronic. But no, this week in...

Jan 13, 20166 min read

This Week In 1991: January 13, 1991

In yesterday's trip back to the first ARIA singles chart of 1986, we saw a new entry by a band on the cusp of breaking up. Before long,...

Jan 6, 20166 min read

This Week In 1991: January 6, 1991

Are we up to 1991 already? When I began this blog in 2012, looking back at the ARIA charts from July 1987, I never anticipated there'd be...

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A Journey Through Aussie Pop is shining a light on classic Australian pop artists and releases from the 1980s, '90s and 2000s.

A Journey Through Stock Aitken Waterman is working its way through every single produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman in chronological order.

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Chart Beats: A Journey Through Pop has been looking back at music from the '80s, '90s, 2000s and 2010s since 2012. Run by freelance journalist and content creator Gavin Scott in Sydney, Australia.