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THROUGH POP

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Oct 25, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: October 25, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. A friend of mine finds it quite bizarre that as much as I love pop,...

Oct 18, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: October 18, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. Aussie music was alive and well this week in 1987, with 19 songs on...

Oct 11, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: October 11, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. In 1987, there was no bigger band at my school than U2. Sure, Bon...

Oct 4, 20125 min read

This Week In 1987: October 4, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. The good thing about charts is that even if there's a bad week...

Sep 27, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: September 27, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. Not every week is a good week on the chart. That was especially...

Sep 20, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: September 20, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. Just when you think 1987 couldn't possibly have had any more...

Sep 13, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: September 13, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. After last week's geriatric fest, the chart from this week in 1987...

Sep 6, 20125 min read

This Week In 1987: September 6, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. I don't know what was going on this week in 1987, but if the week's...

Aug 30, 20125 min read

This Week In 1987: August 30, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. I'm sure I've said this already about 1987, but the top 50 chart...

Aug 23, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: August 23, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. 1987 really was a banner year for the Australian music scene. I've...

Aug 16, 20125 min read

This Week In 1987: August 16. 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. I remember being excited any week there were lots of new entries...

Aug 9, 20125 min read

This Week In 1987: August 9, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. In the past week, I attended my high school's 20 year reunion —...

Aug 2, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: August 2, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. The festival of "Locomotion" is about to come to an end, with the...

Jul 26, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: July 26, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. It was one of Australian television's most watched moments. A soap...

Jul 19, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: July 19, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. Last week was all about the controversial “I Want Your Sex”, which...

Jul 12, 20124 min read

This Week In 1987: July 12, 1987

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2012. Updated in 2017. A week after picking up my first ARIA chart, I decided I just had...

Jul 5, 201212 min read

It All Started This Week In 1987

This week in 1987, I picked up a copy of the latest ARIA chart from my local record store (remember those?) and studied it from top to...

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A Journey Through Aussie Pop is shining a light on classic Australian pop artists and releases from the 1980s, '90s and 2000s.

A Journey Through Stock Aitken Waterman is working its way through every single produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman in chronological order.

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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.