CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

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Feb 26, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 26, 1995

1995 was turning out to be a big year for cover versions. Already, we've seen hit remakes by Urge Overkill, Nicki French, Janet Jackson...

Feb 24, 20204 min read

This Week In 1980: February 24, 1980

Who said disco was dead? This week in 1980, the dance genre that was facing a backlash around the world was proving as popular as ever in...

Feb 19, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 19, 1995

I've talked before about covers albums being an interesting choice for artists still in the prime of their careers to make, and this week...

Feb 17, 20204 min read

This Week In 1980: February 17, 1980

These days, some artists don't even bother with albums, opting to release a series of singles and EPs instead, but back in the 1970s, the...

Feb 12, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: February 12, 1995

There had been successful female artists in previous decades, but there was a whole army of female megastars in the 1990s, when singers...

Feb 10, 20203 min read

This Week In 1980: February 10, 1980

In "Paninaro", Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe listed rockabilly as one of the genres he doesn't like — there's quite a list (but what he does...

Feb 5, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: February 5, 1995

Most weekends during the mid-'90s, you could be guaranteed to find me out clubbing. (Do people still call it going clubbing?) And there...

Feb 3, 20203 min read

This Week In 1980: February 3, 1980

Husband and wife musical duos don't tend to end well. Look at Sonny & Cher and Ike & Tina Turner. But when the chemistry is right, they...

Jan 29, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: January 29, 1995

In the mid-'90s, pretty much any song you could think of was turned into a dance track — from grunge hits to big ballads to current...

Jan 27, 20203 min read

This Week In 1980: January 27, 1980

For celebrities in 2020, multi-tasking means appearing on a reality TV show and maintaining an Instagram account. In the '70s and '80s,...

Jan 22, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: January 22, 1995

Most of the new entries on the ARIA singles chart came from one of the major record companies, which in 1995 were Sony, BMG, EMI, Warner,...

Jan 20, 20203 min read

This Week In 1980: January 20, 1980

OK, let's get this 1980 party started for real. I wrote about the first new chart for the decade in 2018 and updated my post last week —...

Jan 15, 20203 min read

This Week In 1995: January 15, 1995

Despite collecting and now blogging about the ARIA charts from decades past, I've long followed the UK charts from here in Australia....

Jan 8, 20204 min read

This Week In 1995: January 8, 1995

Welcome back for another year of flashbacks to the ARIA singles chart of decades past, and we're up to 1995. At the time, I was in the...

Dec 25, 20194 min read

This Week In 1994: December 25, 1994

What better way to celebrate Christmas than to look back at the ARIA singles chart from this week in 1994? (OK, you can probably think of...

Dec 18, 20193 min read

This Week In 1994: December 18, 1994

1994 will always be remembered for giving us modern Christmas classic "All I Want For Christmas", which shot into the top 10 this week...

Dec 11, 20194 min read

This Week In 1994: December 11, 1994

If you are going to try and go head to head with the year's biggest music releases at the busiest release time of the year, you'd better...

Dec 4, 20193 min read

This Week In 1994: December 4, 1994

Some songs are ahead of their time, failing to connect with the public when they are initially released. Songs like one of the new...

Nov 27, 20194 min read

This Week In 1994: November 27, 1994

A few weeks ago, I talked about how a covers album is often the kind of thing an artist does when their career has hit a rough patch and...

Nov 20, 20194 min read

This Week In 1994: November 20, 1994

Some songs are immediately successful, blasting into the upper reaches of the chart; others are more of a slow burning, taking their time...

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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.