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Aug 7, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: August 7, 1994
These days, unexpected musical collaborations are pretty common, so much so that it's more unexpected when an artist doesn't have one or...
Jul 31, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: July 31, 1994
They would come to be two of the most influential and acclaimed bands of the decade (and beyond), but this week in 1994, a British dance...
Jul 24, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: July 24, 1994
An unusual thing happened this week in 1994 — a pop duo scored what would be the biggest hit of their career in Australia, but it wasn't...
Jul 17, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: July 17, 1994
Sometimes the difference between a song being a flop or a hit is all down to what genre it is. That point was demonstrated by two of the...
Jul 10, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: July 10, 1994
Once upon a time, recording a cover version used to up an artist's chances considerably of achieving chart success. But this week in...
Jul 3, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: July 3, 1994
Most songs are lucky to be a hit once. But there are plenty of successful tunes that go on to have a second lease of life thanks to a hit...
Jun 26, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: June 26, 1994
At the start of June, we saw how it took Take That quite some time to establish themselves as a chart force in Australia. This week in...
Jun 19, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: June 19, 1994
In 1979, sports-related singles "Up There Cazaly" and "C'mon Aussie C'mon" had both topped the Australian singles chart. While in 1983, a...
Jun 12, 20196 min read
This Week In 1994: June 12, 1994
Australia sure did love an overblown ballad in the 1990s. The best-selling singles of 1990, 1991 and 1993 had all been big ballads, while...
Jun 5, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: June 5, 1994
They had been landing top 10 singles at home in the UK for the previous couple of years, but Britain's premier boy band had yet to really...
May 29, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: May 29, 1994
Having a song I liked from my youth featured in an animated movie is a double edged sword. On the plus side, it brings an often forgotten...
May 22, 20195 min read
This Week In 1994: May 22, 1994
Australian and New Zealand music acts have often taken genres that originated overseas and made them their own — think of all those '80s...
May 15, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: May 15, 1994
Three years ago, in one of my 1991 recaps, I wrote about UK quiz show Pointless and how some long-forgotten chart entries would make...
May 8, 20195 min read
This Week In 1994: May 8, 1994
Girl groups had been coming thick and fast out of America since the late '80, and Australia had got in on the action with a couple of...
May 1, 20196 min read
This Week In 1994: May 1, 1994
I never noticed it at the time, but the release schedules of Prince and Madonna started to sync up in 1992, with the music megastars...
Apr 24, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: April 24, 1994
They once had three separate singles simultaneously in the top 40. And they managed three number 1 hits in less than two years. Yep,...
Apr 17, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: April 17, 1994
As big a fan of dance music as I was in 1994, not every club classic appealed to me — not even the ones that everybody else seemed to...
Apr 10, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: April 10, 1994
It was one of those weeks again on the ARIA chart this week in 1994 — yep, it's time for another round of less successful singles by acts...
Apr 3, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: April 3, 1994
Success in America has always been seen as the jackpot for music acts around the world, and sometimes all the stops have to be pulled out...
Mar 27, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: March 27, 1994
I've probably said this before — I do tend to repeat myself a bit — but when it comes to cover versions, if you're going to bother...
