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Feb 11, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: February 11, 1990
Just when the ARIA chart was starting to look diverse, along comes a big old rock week. Yep, there's not a house synth or rap beat among...
Feb 10, 20154 min read
This Week In 1985: February 10, 1985
If you've looked around this blog at all, you may have noticed I have a bit of a thing about one-hit wonders — especially when acts are...
Feb 4, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: February 4, 1990
Second chances don't come along that often — but this week in 1990, several songs were given another opportunity to become hits on the...
Feb 3, 20155 min read
This Week In 1985: February 3, 1985
Image was everything in the '80s and this week in 1985, an artist who'd previously been known for her squeaky clean, girl-next-door look...
Jan 28, 20153 min read
This Week In 1990: January 28, 1990
What an odd collection of songs we have to talk about this week! Some pop, some dance, some Aussie rock and the debut of an artist who...
Jan 27, 20154 min read
This Week In 1985: January 27, 1985
One of the things that annoys me most about retro music television programming is that the same old hits get wheeled out over and over —...
Jan 21, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: January 21, 1990
I've always been more a fan of pop singers than rock chicks — and the divide between the two grew ever wider in the 1990s with less...
Jan 20, 20156 min read
This Week In 1985: January 20, 1985
A few years back, when music was in the throes of a major '80s revival (think La Roux, Goldfrapp's Head First, Little Boots,...
Jan 14, 20155 min read
This Week In 1990: January 14, 1990
One of the most exciting things about the Australian charts from 1990 onwards is that information about positions 51 to 100 is readily...
Jan 13, 20154 min read
This Week In 1985: January 13, 1985
For the past couple of years, I've been taking a look back 25 years to what was happening on the ARIA top 50 singles chart — and I've...
Jan 7, 20154 min read
This Week In 1990: January 7, 1990
Happy New Year, chart fans. This week in 1990, it was not only a new year but also the dawn of a new decade on the ARIA chart. Of course,...
Dec 17, 20146 min read
This Week In 1989: December 17, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. As 2014 comes to an end, so too does our look back at the ARIA top...
Dec 10, 20145 min read
This Week In 1989: December 10, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. What would the Australian pop music scene have been without...
Dec 3, 20145 min read
This Week In 1989: December 3, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. As the world headed towards the 1990s, Australia found itself at a...
Nov 26, 20144 min read
This Week In 1989: November 26, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. Everything old was new again on the ARIA chart this week in 1989,...
Nov 19, 20145 min read
This Week In 1989: November 19, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. In the almost two-and-a-half years that I've been writing this...
Nov 12, 20144 min read
This Week In 1989: November 12, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. There's a lot to be said for going out on top — but unfortunately...
Nov 5, 20146 min read
This Week In 1989: November 5, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. It was a good week for cover versions this week in 1989, with three...
Oct 29, 20144 min read
This Week In 1989: October 29, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. Pop music has always been a fairly fickle business — and that was...
Oct 22, 20144 min read
This Week In 1989: October 22, 1989
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. I'm sure someone has a record of how many times this happened in...