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Jun 30, 20163 min read
This Week In 1991: June 30, 1991
It's the oldest trick in the book — giving a song already readily available on an album a sprucing up for single release. Occasionally, a...
Jun 29, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: June 29, 1986
What would the '80s have been without one-hit wonders? Some of the decade's best songs — and some of the worst — came from acts that only...
Jun 23, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: June 23, 1991
If we're to take a lesson away from the new entries on the ARIA chart this week in 1991 it's this: if you leave a successful band for a...
Jun 22, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: June 22, 1986
So far, 1986 hadn't let the side down when it came to big soundtrack hits — with singles like "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get...
Jun 16, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: June 16, 1991
After the deluge of new entries over the previous two weeks — 16 in total! — it was inevitable that the ARIA top 50 singles chart would...
Jun 15, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: June 15, 1986
Music videos really were inventive in the 1980s — and a key component of many clips that are now considered classics was the use of...
Jun 9, 20166 min read
This Week In 1991: June 9, 1991
Having observed the success that cast members from Neighbours and Home And Away had enjoyed on the ARIA singles chart over the past few...
Jun 8, 20166 min read
This Week In 1986: June 8, 1986
What a year 1986 was for music and what a week it was this week that year, when eight new songs entered the ARIA top 50 — and I love...
Jun 2, 20166 min read
This Week In 1991: June 2, 1991
Sometimes I struggle to find a topic that neatly sums up what was happening on the ARIA chart in the late '80s or early '90s. Then, there...
Jun 1, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: June 1, 1986
So far in our trip back to the hits from the mid-'80s, we've seen a number of songs with a conscience — charity records, political...
May 26, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: May 26, 1991
Ray Parker Jr vs Huey Lewis & The News. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams vs Marvin Gaye's estate. Vanilla Ice vs Queen and David Bowie....
May 25, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: May 25, 1986
A couple of weeks ago, we saw the chart debut of one of my all-time top 5 Australian bands. This week in 1986, another of my favourite...
May 19, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: May 19, 1991
It was a great week for rock bands with female singers this week in 1991, with three new entries on the ARIA singles chart coming from...
May 18, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: May 18, 1986
The great thing about the charts in the '80s was that you really didn't know what was going to crack the top 50 next. Pop acts were...
May 12, 20165 min read
This Week In 1991: May 12, 1991
When would it end? This week in 1991, the megamix craze that had resulted in a string of chart hits since the late '80s produced its...
May 11, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: May 11, 1986
In 1985, we'd heard her first musical change of pace, but this week in 1986, pop's mistress of reinvention debuted her first major image...
May 5, 20165 min read
This Week In 1991: May 5, 1991
It might be stating the obvious, but a lot can change in a couple of decades. In 1991, one of the artists making their top 50 debut on...
May 4, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: May 4, 1986
I don't like novelty singles. That won't come as news to regular readers who know my feelings about songs like "Five In A Row", "Stutter...
Apr 28, 20164 min read
This Week In 1991: April 28, 1991
Having back-to-back number 1 hits is not unusual — plenty of acts have done it over the years. An artist having two consecutive number 1...
Apr 27, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: April 27, 1986
Michael Jackson turning into a zombie, Madonna kissing an African-American Jesus, a-ha's Morten Harket pulling a woman into an animated...
