CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

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Mar 17, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: March, 17 1996

As well as obsessively following the Australian top 50, I've always paid a lot of attention to the UK chart. I can't say I've been as...

Mar 10, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: March 10, 1996

The Osmonds. The Jacksons. The Pointer Sisters. Hanson. Jonas Brothers. Haim. Music history is littered with groups consisting purely of...

Mar 3, 20216 min read

This Week In 1996: March 3, 1996

It had taken a while for Take That to break in Australia and the same was true for another boy band from that part of the world —...

Feb 25, 20216 min read

This Week In 1996: February 25, 1996

Earlier in the decade, we saw how second generation performers Nelson and Wilson Phillips had achieved major chart success (especially in...

Feb 18, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: February 18, 1996

Ah, remixes. It's a topic I've covered on more than one occasion in the past, but the power of the remix was never more evident than this...

Feb 11, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: February 11, 1996

One look at the new entries on the ARIA singles chart this week in 1996 tells you everything you need to know about how far Australia had...

Feb 4, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: February 4, 1996

When I compiled my list of favourite girl groups, one common trait stood out: line-up changes. It is the rare girl group that gets to the...

Jan 28, 20213 min read

This Week In 1996: January 28, 1996

A decade is a long time in music, and for an artist to be able to sustain peak popularity for that long is the exception rather than the...

Jan 21, 20216 min read

This Week In 1996: January 21, 1996

Nine new entries! That's what I call an exciting week in chart history. And the highest entry going straight in at number 1, no less —...

Jan 14, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: January 14, 1996

Regular readers will know my disdain for novelty records, but there's a different type of novelty I am a fan of, and that's when an...

Jan 7, 20214 min read

This Week In 1996: January 7, 1996

Back in 1996, the ARIA chart still shut down at Christmas, meaning top 50 fans had to make do with an unchanged countdown for three...

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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.