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Dec 20, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: December 20, 1992
Kylie, Dannii, Tina, Collette, Melissa, Toni... Australia had had its fair share of young female pop stars in the previous few years, but...
Dec 13, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: December 13, 1992
It's the part of the year record shops used to live for: the pre-Christmas period, during which all the biggest albums would hit stores....
Dec 6, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: December 6, 1992
If you're going to release a cover version, it's always a good idea to choose a song not many people are familiar with. That way, it...
Nov 29, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: November 29, 1992
By 1992, it was nothing new for a soap star to try their hand at a music career. We'd had Kylie, Jason, Craig, Melissa... and this week...
Nov 22, 20173 min read
This Week In 1992: November 22, 1992
So far in the 1990s, there hadn't been that many rap hits by white artists. And what successful singles there had been came from acts...
Nov 15, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: November 15, 1992
Some charts weeks are pretty predictable — the songs you expect to be hits go on to do just that, while you can see the flops coming a...
Nov 8, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: November 8, 1992
It can be a fine line between catchy and annoying sometimes. And this week in 1992, the highest new entry on the ARIA singles chart...
Nov 1, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: November 1, 1992
As you scan down the list of songs making their presence felt on the ARIA chart this week in 1992, let me assure you that I am talking...
Oct 25, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: October 25, 1992
Ever since the days of Elvis Presley, pop music and sex have been inextricably linked. But by 1992, we'd come a long way from gyrating...
Oct 18, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: October 18, 1992
Welcome to another instalment of Once Were Hitmakers . That's right, our flashback to the ARIA chart from this week in 1992 features a...
Oct 11, 20173 min read
This Week In 1992: October 11, 1992
1992 really was a year for big ballads — and they didn't come much bigger than the song making its debut on the ARIA chart this week that...
Oct 4, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: October 4, 1992
Seven years is a long time between chart hits. Eight years is even longer. But for the pair of singers behind the most successful new...
Sep 27, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 27, 1992
Last week , we saw one-hit wonders Riff arrive on the ARIA top 50 and this week in 1992, another one-time hit-maker debuted with a song...
Sep 20, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 20, 1992
It was a pretty eclectic week on the ARIA top 50 this week in 1992, with a diverse range of songs making their debut — truly something...
Sep 13, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 13, 1992
Sometimes there's nothing better than a good ballad. Other music trends may come and go, but a heartfelt slow song can connect with...
Sep 6, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 6, 1992
It was theoretically a superstar collaboration in an era before such things happened all the time. But in Australia, the two main singers...
Aug 30, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: August 30, 1992
Like reggae music, country isn't a genre you find on the ARIA top 50 singles chart that often — but when a country (or reggae) song does...
Aug 23, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: August 23, 1992
In 1988 and most of 1989, Bobby Brown struggled to convince Australian audiences to join the new jack swing party that was sweeping the...
Aug 16, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: August 16, 1992
As we've seen over the past few years, Australia was slow to embrace hip-hop — and when we did so, it was often only the highly...
Aug 9, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: August 9, 1992
In the five-plus years I've looked back at the ARIA charts of the 1980s and '90s, I've written about all sorts of songs. Often in the...
