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Mar 14, 20185 min read

This Week In 1993: March 14, 1993

For the second week in a row, there's a deluge of new rock songs to talk about as we look back at the ARIA singles chart from this week...

Mar 7, 20183 min read

This Week In 1993: March 7, 1993

Sometimes this blog truly is a labour of love, when "labour" is the operative word and there's not much to love at all. Like this week in...

Feb 28, 20185 min read

This Week In 1993: February 28, 1993

Some music acts are so inextricably linked to a certain time and place that it's impossible for them to succeed outside their era. And in...

Feb 21, 20185 min read

This Week In 1993: February 21, 1993

A cappella singles don't come around that often, but when they do, they tend to have mixed fortunes on the Australian chart. For every...

Feb 14, 20183 min read

This Week In 1993: February 14, 1993

Yep, here I go again. This week's ARIA top 50 from 1993 allows me to once again talk about my favourite chart topic: one-hit wonders....

Feb 7, 20183 min read

This Week In 1993: February 7, 1993

What do "High" by The Cure, "Metropolis" by The Church and Duran Duran's "The Wild Boys" have in common? They're all, somewhat...

Jan 31, 20184 min read

This Week In 1993: January 31, 1993

It seemed like the perfect recipe for TV success — pretty twentysomethings + angsty pop/rock + primetime drama = ratings gold. But for...

Jan 24, 20185 min read

This Week In 1993: January 24, 1993

Having seen what New Kids On The Block had achieved around the world as the '80s became the '90s, British record companies wanted in on...

Jan 17, 20183 min read

This Week In 1993: January 17, 1993

By this point in 1993, American R&B hits were more readily snapped up by Australian music fans than they had been just a few years...

Jan 10, 20184 min read

This Week In 1993: January 10, 1993

A new year, and with the dawn of 1993 came a new musical trend: world music goes electronic. The biggest of the five new entries on the...

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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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