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Oct 7, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: October 7, 1984
This time last week, we were reminiscing about a major hit from a man in full make-up and an eye-catching outfit. This week, we look back...
Oct 4, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: October 4, 1992
Seven years is a long time between chart hits. Eight years is even longer. But for the pair of singers behind the most successful new...
Sep 30, 20175 min read
This Week In 1984: September 30, 1984
It seems kind of appropriate with everything that's going on in Australia in 2017 for this week's flashback to the ARIA chart of 1984 to...
Sep 27, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 27, 1992
Last week , we saw one-hit wonders Riff arrive on the ARIA top 50 and this week in 1992, another one-time hit-maker debuted with a song...
Sep 23, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: September 23, 1984
In 1984, U2 were just another up-and-coming band. They'd already had a couple of minor hits in Australia, but were years away from...
Sep 20, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 20, 1992
It was a pretty eclectic week on the ARIA top 50 this week in 1992, with a diverse range of songs making their debut — truly something...
Sep 16, 20172 min read
This Week In 1984: September 16, 1984
After a few busy weeks on the ARIA chart, things quietened down this week in 1984 with only two new entries to the top 50 — both by...
Sep 13, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 13, 1992
Sometimes there's nothing better than a good ballad. Other music trends may come and go, but a heartfelt slow song can connect with...
Sep 9, 20176 min read
This Week In 1984: September 9, 1984
Some big singles were released in 1984 — songs that would sell millions of copies around the world and come to define the decade as a...
Sep 6, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: September 6, 1992
It was theoretically a superstar collaboration in an era before such things happened all the time. But in Australia, the two main singers...
Sep 2, 20175 min read
This Week In 1984: September 2, 1984
There were some big names behind the new entries on the ARIA singles top 50 this week in 1984. You had a male artist who'd topped the...
Aug 30, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: August 30, 1992
Like reggae music, country isn't a genre you find on the ARIA top 50 singles chart that often — but when a country (or reggae) song does...
Aug 26, 20173 min read
This Week In 1984: August 26, 1984
I used to get quite disappointed when songs I really liked didn't go higher on the chart. And then I reached a certain point where I kind...
Aug 23, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: August 23, 1992
In 1988 and most of 1989, Bobby Brown struggled to convince Australian audiences to join the new jack swing party that was sweeping the...
Aug 19, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: August 19, 1984
You wouldn't get away with it today. If a new band wanted to call themselves The Avengers or Justice League, I'm sure lawyers would...
Aug 16, 20174 min read
This Week In 1992: August 16, 1992
As we've seen over the past few years, Australia was slow to embrace hip-hop — and when we did so, it was often only the highly...
Aug 12, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: August 12, 1984
It's funny how many career-defining moments almost never happen. This week in 1984, a single debuted that would completely revitalise a...
Aug 9, 20175 min read
This Week In 1992: August 9, 1992
In the five-plus years I've looked back at the ARIA charts of the 1980s and '90s, I've written about all sorts of songs. Often in the...
Aug 5, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: August 5, 1984
It only ran for 20 episodes, but ABC music drama Sweet And Sour looms large in my memories of the mid-'80s. For one thing, it had an...
Aug 2, 20172 min read
This Week In 1992: August 2, 1992
Sometimes a song's chart peak isn't the full story. For example, it might reach number 1, but if it doesn't hang around very long, it...
