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Jul 30, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: July 30, 1995

Sometimes a song needs a well-timed re-release to find its audience, who missed it first time around. Or perhaps a remix to freshen up a...

Jul 23, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: July 23, 1995

Like all genres, dance music has its good songs and its bad. But what exactly did anyone do to deserve the cavalcade of crap that debuted...

Jul 16, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: July 16, 1995

I'm sure I've written before about the proliferation of vocal harmony groups in the mid-'90s, but you need look no further than the new...

Jul 9, 20205 min read

This Week In 1995: July 9, 1995

In 1995, debuting at number 1 on the ARIA singles chart was still a rarity. Even rarer: an act managing to do it twice. In fact, up until...

Jul 2, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: July 2, 1995

There is an inner circle among one-hit wonders — those artists who achieved the ultimate in chart one-off-ness: a chart-topping single...

Jun 25, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: June 25, 1995

Musical taste is a funny thing — one person's ear candy is another's noise pollution. And it always amuses me when I get a sudden influx...

Jun 18, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: June 18, 1995

We've already seen a number of cover versions from 1995 in our look back at the ARIA singles chart from that year, but this week featured...

Jun 11, 20205 min read

This Week In 1995: June 11, 1995

It's rare for a family to have one superstar performer, but for two music icons to emerge from the one household is even more unusual. So...

Jun 4, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: June 4, 1995

Sometimes it seemed like if a '90s dance track wasn't a flop the first time around, then it hadn't earned its right to be a success. From...

May 28, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: May 28, 1995

American R&B music had really infiltrated the mainstream in Australia by 1995, so much so that no one blinked an eye when the debut...

May 21, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: May 21, 1995

Over the last two weeks, we've seen some of my favourite dance tracks from 1995 (of which there were many) arrive on the ARIA singles...

May 14, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: May 14, 1995

Sometimes less is more. If you only have a few great tracks in you, don't bother inflicting an album full of filler on the world. This...

May 7, 20205 min read

This Week In 1995: May 7, 1995

I'm currently counting down my favourite songs from 1995 on the Chart Beats Facebook page, and I'll tell you what: I listened to a lot of...

Apr 30, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: April 30, 1995

What was it with covers albums in the mid-'90s? Hot on the heels of collections of remakes by Gloria Estefan and Annie Lennox, my...

Apr 23, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: April 23, 1995

The ARIA top 50 chart might have featured singles by Boyz II Men, CDB, TLC and 4PM this week in 1995, but there was always room for more...

Apr 16, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: April 16, 1995

So far, in the battle of the '90s British boy bands, East 17 had trounced their biggest rivals, Take That, in Australia (although the...

Apr 9, 20205 min read

This Week In 1995: April 9, 1995

Sometimes it's all just a matter of timing. One month's chart flop can be a massive hit at another time of year... as was the case with a...

Apr 2, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: April 2, 1995

Variety is the spice of life, as the saying goes, and by the mid-'90s many releases had a range of remixes on offer. Didn't like one...

Mar 26, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: March 26, 1995

When people talk about female artists from the 1990s, it's usually about big ballad divas like Mariah and Celine, chart-topping rock...

Mar 19, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: March 19, 1995

If there were two things that defined the first half of the '90s it was grunge bands and vocal harmony groups. This week in 1995, the...

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