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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...
May 4, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: May 4, 1980
It's hard to think of a genre in music as divisive as disco. How many other types of music have had calls for it to be killed off? By...
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 27, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: April 27, 1980
When is a one-hit wonder not a one-hit wonder? When they actually had a second huge hit that often gets forgetten about. This week in...
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 20, 20204 min read
This Week In 1980: April 20, 1980
As much as I've always tried to keep on top of what's going on in music, it wasn't easy in the 1980s, especially when I was very young....
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 13, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: April 13, 1980
In my 1995 flashbacks, we recently saw that despite going on to become one of this country's defining musical moments, Christine Anu's...
Apr 9, 20204 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 6, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: April 6, 1980
Unless you happen to perform with your significant other (Sonny & Cher, Captain & Tennille) or record songs with them (Kylie Minogue and...
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 30, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: March 30, 1980
Every so often, a band comes along that is unlike any other. Like this week in 1980, when a new wave group from the US broke into the...
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 23, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: March 23, 1980
It's always fun discovering that a song you like is a cover version and then going back to listen to the original. Especially when for...
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...
Mar 16, 20203 min read
This Week In 1980: March 16, 1980
One of the best parts of these weekly trips back to the Australian singles chart of 1980 is seeing artists have their first hits and...
Mar 12, 20203 min read
This Week In 1995: March 12, 1995
It had taken Australia long enough to full embrace dance music, and then songs like the highest new entry on the singles chart this week...
Mar 9, 20204 min read
This Week In 1980: March 9, 1980
So far in these flashbacks to the Australian top 50 from 1980, we've seen some of the first big hits of the decade. This week that year,...
Mar 5, 20204 min read
This Week In 1995: March 5, 1995
Who's ready for the latest round of How Did That Aussie Classic Flop So Badly? Following previous instalments featuring GANGgajang,...
Mar 2, 20204 min read
This Week In 1980: March 2, 1980
This week in 1980, it was a big week for new entries on the Australian singles chart, with four future top 10 hits debuting. Two of those...
