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Jan 19, 20176 min read
This Week In 1992: January 19, 1992
In recent years, when famous musicians have passed away, many of their songs have re-entered the ARIA top 50, sometimes bettering their...
Jan 18, 20175 min read
This Week In 1987: January 18, 1987
Welcome back to 1987. When I started this blog in mid-2012, I wrote my first posts about the ARIA charts from July 1987. Why? Well, it...
Jan 15, 20174 min read
This Week In 1984: January 15, 1984
Music acts can pretty much be divided into innovators and imitators, and as our look back at the ARIA charts from years past finally...
Jan 12, 20176 min read
This Week In 1992: January 12, 1992
Welcome to the first ARIA chart for 1992! Back then, most musical collaborations were pretty much what you would expect. A pair of...
Dec 28, 20167 min read
This Week In 1986: December 28, 1986
Before Big Day Out, there was Australian Made. This week in 1986, some of the biggest homegrown acts were making their way around the...
Dec 25, 20166 min read
This Week In 1983: December 25, 1983
It's funny what it takes for a song to be banned — and how that's changed over the years. Just last week, we saw that the suggestion of...
Dec 22, 20166 min read
This Week In 1991: December 22, 1991
Every so often, a song comes along that completely changes the face of popular music. This week in 1991, the ARIA chart welcomed a rock...
Dec 21, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: December 21, 1986
It didn't happen often — especially compared to the UK chart — but when a former hit song was re-released and returned to the Australian...
Dec 18, 20164 min read
This Week In 1983: December 18, 1983
There comes a point in some bands' careers where they go from being purely popular to absolutely huge. Often, it only takes one song to...
Dec 15, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: December 15, 1991
We hear a lot about climate change and the damage we're doing to the environment today, but some people were on the case decades ago....
Dec 14, 20166 min read
This Week In 1986: December 14, 1986
It's funny how so often the songs that are basically afterthoughts end up defining an artist's music career. A song that's dashed off in...
Dec 11, 20164 min read
This Week In 1983: December 11, 1983
Sometimes it's better not to tempt fate (pun intended) and try to recreate an iconic pop culture moment. But, 1977's Grease had been so...
Dec 8, 20165 min read
This Week In 1991: December 8, 1991
It must have been the warmer weather and the fact that party season had begun, because suddenly dance tunes were doing well on the ARIA...
Dec 7, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: December 7, 1986
A few months earlier, Bananarama had taken a former number 1 hit, "Venus" by Shocking Blue, back to the top of the chart for seven weeks....
Dec 4, 20165 min read
This Week In 1983: December 4, 1983
This week in 1983, a future superstar made her first appearance on the ARIA top 100. The single — her second — didn't progress very far,...
Dec 1, 20167 min read
This Week In 1991: December 1, 1991
It's one thing for a Eurodance act or even an American house outfit to misappropriate vocals and pretend some pretty model (or two) is...
Nov 30, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: November 30, 1986
When a band takes a break, those that actually end up making a comeback are invariably changed when they return. That was never more the...
Nov 27, 20163 min read
This Week In 1983: November 27, 1983
As well as being a great 12 months for music, 1983 was an important year for developments in computers. Apple's Lisa desktop, Microsoft...
Nov 24, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: November 24, 1991
In the 1980s, talking about sex in music had often resulted in songs and/or music videos being banned for being too risqué. To get away...
Nov 23, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: November 23, 1986
As great as it is when artists move with the times and develop their sound and/or image, it's sometimes nice to be able to rely on those...
