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Mar 27, 20134 min read

This Week In 1988: March 27, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. The biggest problem I have putting this ARIA recap together each...

Mar 20, 20134 min read

This Week In 1988: March 20, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. Last week, I promised there'd be more laughs — and as Morris Minor...

Mar 13, 20134 min read

This Week In 1988: March 13, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. I've never really understood the appeal of comedy records. Sure,...

Mar 6, 20134 min read

This Week In 1988: March 6, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. What's this? Isn't it a day early for our look back at the ARIA...

Feb 28, 20135 min read

This Week In 1988: February 28, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. Over the past few months, as I've been taking a look back at the...

Feb 21, 20135 min read

This Week In 1988: February 21, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. The new entries from this week in 1988 can pretty much be divided...

Feb 14, 20133 min read

This Week In 1988: February 14, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. Valentine's Day, 1988 — and there was nothing I loved more in the...

Feb 7, 20134 min read

This Week In 1988: February 7, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. It has to be said: the charts for the first few weeks of 1988 had...

Jan 31, 20135 min read

This Week In 1988: January 31, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. This week in 1988, school holidays were coming to an end and it was...

Jan 24, 20135 min read

This Week In 1988: January 24, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. There we were, a full month after Christmas 1987 and the majority...

Jan 17, 20133 min read

This Week In 1988: January 17, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. As I sit down to write this post, I've just returned home after...

Jan 10, 20134 min read

This Week In 1988: January 10, 1988

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. Three weeks is a long time to wait when you're a chart fanatic, so...

Dec 20, 20126 min read

This Week In 1987: December 20, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. Back in the '80s, the chart would take an extended break over...

Dec 13, 20123 min read

This Week In 1987: December 13, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. I don't know what was happening this week in 1987, but after mostly...

Dec 6, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: December 6, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. Obviously I've stored my weekly ARIA charts away safely all these...

Nov 29, 20125 min read

This Week In 1987: November 29, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. This week in 1987, you'd have been forgiven for thinking it was...

Nov 22, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: November 22, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. I've always preferred female recording artists to male. Even when...

Nov 15, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: November 15, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. It's always disappointing when you like a music act and they go and...

Nov 8, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: November 8, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. In the second half of the '80s, there really was no escaping...

Nov 1, 20123 min read

This Week In 1987: November 1, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. In chart history, one song has often dominated the number 1 spot...

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Chart Beats: A Journey Through Pop has been looking back at music from the '80s, '90s, 2000s and 2010s since 2012. Run by freelance journalist and content creator Gavin Scott in Sydney, Australia.