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Dec 16, 20173 min read
This Week In 1984: December 16, 1984
Landing a number 1 song can do amazing things for a music act's career. Take the two female singers who debuted on the ARIA top 50 this...
Dec 13, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: December 13, 1992
It's the part of the year record shops used to live for: the pre-Christmas period, during which all the biggest albums would hit stores....
Dec 9, 20173 min read
This Week In 1984: December 9, 1984
After the deluge of debuts over the previous few weeks, things quietened down on the ARIA singles chart this week in 1984 as those new...
Dec 6, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: December 6, 1992
If you're going to release a cover version, it's always a good idea to choose a song not many people are familiar with. That way, it...
Dec 2, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: December 2, 1984
It's not something you see very often — especially in the '80s — so when all the new entries on the ARIA singles chart come from female...
Nov 29, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: November 29, 1992
By 1992, it was nothing new for a soap star to try their hand at a music career. We'd had Kylie, Jason, Craig, Melissa... and this week...
Nov 25, 20177 min read
This Week In 1984: November 25, 1984
There are big chart weeks and then there was the ARIA singles top 50 from this week in 1984. Among the 10 new entries — the most for the...
Nov 22, 20173 min read
This Week In 1992: November 22, 1992
So far in the 1990s, there hadn't been that many rap hits by white artists. And what successful singles there had been came from acts...
Nov 18, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: November 18, 1984
Australians have always loved to laugh, never more so than in the mid-'80s when stand-up comedians were regulars on the ARIA singles and...
Nov 15, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: November 15, 1992
Some charts weeks are pretty predictable — the songs you expect to be hits go on to do just that, while you can see the flops coming a...
Nov 11, 20175 min read
This Week In 1984: November 11, 1984
Up until the last month of 1989, every Madonna single released in the '80s except one had reached the top 20 (and most had gone top 10)...
Nov 8, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: November 8, 1992
It can be a fine line between catchy and annoying sometimes. And this week in 1992, the highest new entry on the ARIA singles chart...
Nov 4, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: November 4, 1984
The phrase "jump the shark" is usually employed in relation to the moment when TV shows go from awesome to awful, but it could equally be...
Nov 1, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: November 1, 1992
As you scan down the list of songs making their presence felt on the ARIA chart this week in 1992, let me assure you that I am talking...
Oct 28, 20176 min read
This Week In 1984: October 28, 1984
Some singers have the worst luck — and the female vocalist behind the highest new entry on the ARIA top 50 this week in 1984 is a case in...
Oct 25, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: October 25, 1992
Ever since the days of Elvis Presley, pop music and sex have been inextricably linked. But by 1992, we'd come a long way from gyrating...
Oct 21, 20173 min read
This Week In 1984: October 21, 1984
We all have those songs we can't stand. Sometimes it's an irrational, inexplicable hatred — it just rubs you up the wrong way. Sometimes,...
Oct 18, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: October 18, 1992
Welcome to another instalment of Once Were Hitmakers . That's right, our flashback to the ARIA chart from this week in 1992 features a...
Oct 14, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: October 14, 1984
It must suck to be a celebrity with a sibling who's more famous than you are. No matter what you do, it's always going to be overshadowed...
Oct 11, 20173 min read
This Week In 1992: October 11, 1992
1992 really was a year for big ballads — and they didn't come much bigger than the song making its debut on the ARIA chart this week that...
