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May 2, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: May 2, 1993
Even though he was in the midst of legal wrangling with his record label in the early '90s, George Michael still managed to find ways to...
Apr 28, 20185 min read
Every ABBA song to make the Australian top 50
It's the music reunion we were told would never happen — in this case, by ABBA themselves, with the Swedish four-piece resisting very...
Apr 25, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: April 25, 1993
No matter how successful a band is, there comes a time when they reach their use by date. Sometimes it might take decades (U2, The...
Apr 18, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: April 18, 1993
Kicking off your music career with two top 10 hits is a pretty good start to things, but even though it looked like soap...
Apr 11, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: April 11, 1993
Bobby Brown. Marky Mark. Peter Andre. That guy from Radio Freedom. The previous few years had seen a steady stream of male pop stars with...
Apr 4, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: April 4, 1993
It must be disheartening to release song after song and see them all fizzle out on the chart, so it must come as a huge relief when a...
Mar 28, 20184 min read
This Week In 1993: March 28, 1993
Remember the time, just over a year ago, when we'd marvelled at how Michael Jackson had debuted on the ARIA top 50 with two different...
Mar 21, 20184 min read
This Week In 1993: March 21, 1993
Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen American bands remake "Cats In The Cradle" and "Mrs Robinson" in early '90s rock style. This...
Mar 14, 20185 min read
This Week In 1993: March 14, 1993
For the second week in a row, there's a deluge of new rock songs to talk about as we look back at the ARIA singles chart from this week...
Mar 7, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: March 7, 1993
Sometimes this blog truly is a labour of love, when "labour" is the operative word and there's not much to love at all. Like this week in...
Feb 28, 20185 min read
This Week In 1993: February 28, 1993
Some music acts are so inextricably linked to a certain time and place that it's impossible for them to succeed outside their era. And in...
Feb 21, 20185 min read
This Week In 1993: February 21, 1993
A cappella singles don't come around that often, but when they do, they tend to have mixed fortunes on the Australian chart. For every...
Feb 14, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: February 14, 1993
Yep, here I go again. This week's ARIA top 50 from 1993 allows me to once again talk about my favourite chart topic: one-hit wonders....
Feb 7, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: February 7, 1993
What do "High" by The Cure, "Metropolis" by The Church and Duran Duran's "The Wild Boys" have in common? They're all, somewhat...
Jan 31, 20184 min read
This Week In 1993: January 31, 1993
It seemed like the perfect recipe for TV success — pretty twentysomethings + angsty pop/rock + primetime drama = ratings gold. But for...
Jan 24, 20185 min read
This Week In 1993: January 24, 1993
Having seen what New Kids On The Block had achieved around the world as the '80s became the '90s, British record companies wanted in on...
Jan 17, 20183 min read
This Week In 1993: January 17, 1993
By this point in 1993, American R&B hits were more readily snapped up by Australian music fans than they had been just a few years...
Jan 10, 20184 min read
This Week In 1993: January 10, 1993
A new year, and with the dawn of 1993 came a new musical trend: world music goes electronic. The biggest of the five new entries on the...
Dec 23, 20178 min read
This Week In 1984: December 23, 1984
It's fitting that I write this week's 1984 recap in the UK, the home of the Christmas number 1. Nowhere else in the world is the race to...
Dec 20, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: December 20, 1992
Kylie, Dannii, Tina, Collette, Melissa, Toni... Australia had had its fair share of young female pop stars in the previous few years, but...
