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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...
Mar 20, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: March 20, 1994
If 1993 had been the year of reggae, 1994 was shaping up to be the year of the big ballad. In weeks past, we've seen hits by Celine Dion...
Mar 13, 20193 min read
This Week In 1994: March 13, 1994
Each week, there's usually something really obvious for me to talk about before I dive into the new entries on the ARIA singles chart. It...
Mar 6, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: March 6, 1994
Before songs were constantly available in the digital age, tracks that hadn't been successful first time around had to be re-released if...
Feb 27, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: February 27, 1994
It's weeks like this that make looking back at the ARIA top 50 singles chart from 1994 enjoyable — six new entries that I (mostly) like...
Feb 20, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: February 20, 1994
It's not every week a future number 1 single enters the ARIA chart. It's even less common for two chart-toppers to debut in the one week....
Feb 13, 20194 min read
This Week In 1994: February 13, 1994
It's a testament to how massive a music act is when there are huge hits in their back catalogue that can become forgotten. Artists like...
