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Mar 15, 20173 min read

This Week In 1992: March 15, 1992

Number 1 singles and albums are pretty hard to achieve. Even harder: a career made up entirely of chart-toppers. Although, it must be...

Mar 8, 20175 min read

This Week In 1992: March 8, 1992

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers... If I was a rock music fan, I'd be loving delving back to when all those bands had their...

Mar 1, 20175 min read

This Week In 1992: March 1, 1992

In today's flashback to 1987, we saw the ARIA chart debut of Bon Jovi. Five years later, another seminal rock band landed their first top...

Feb 23, 20174 min read

This Week In 1992: February 23, 1992

There are some voices you recognise as soon as you hear them — and this week in 1992, a British female singer with an unmistakable tone...

Feb 16, 20173 min read

This Week In 1992: February 16, 1992

It was a bit of slow week on the ARIA singles chart this week in 1992, and so I'm forced to talk about a subject regular readers will...

Feb 9, 20175 min read

This Week In 1992: February 9, 1992

Back in the pre-digital era, it was pretty unusual for an artist to enter the top 50 with more than one single in the same week. It did...

Feb 2, 20175 min read

This Week In 1992: February 2, 1992

Back in the '80s, I'd assumed collaborations happened because the artists were friends and wanted to record together. They'd get together...

Jan 26, 20174 min read

This Week In 1992: January 26, 1992

There are some songs you just know are going to be massive. Then there are those singles that climb all the way up the chart, defying any...

Jan 19, 20176 min read

This Week In 1992: January 19, 1992

In recent years, when famous musicians have passed away, many of their songs have re-entered the ARIA top 50, sometimes bettering their...

Jan 12, 20176 min read

This Week In 1992: January 12, 1992

Welcome to the first ARIA chart for 1992! Back then, most musical collaborations were pretty much what you would expect. A pair of...

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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.