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- Mar 22, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: March 23, 1980
It's always fun discovering that a song you like is a cover version and then going back to listen to the original. Especially when for...

- Mar 15, 2020
- 2 min
This Week In 1980: March 16, 1980
One of the best parts of these weekly trips back to the Australian singles chart of 1980 is seeing artists have their first hits and...

- Mar 8, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: March 9, 1980
So far in these flashbacks to the Australian top 50 from 1980, we've seen some of the first big hits of the decade. This week that year,...

- Mar 1, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: March 2, 1980
This week in 1980, it was a big week for new entries on the Australian singles chart, with four future top 10 hits debuting. Two of those...

- Feb 23, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: February 24, 1980
Who said disco was dead? This week in 1980, the dance genre that was facing a backlash around the world was proving as popular as ever in...

- Feb 16, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: February 17, 1980
These days, some artists don't even bother with albums, opting to release a series of singles and EPs instead, but back in the 1970s, the...

- Feb 9, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: February 10, 1980
In "Paninaro", Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe listed rockabilly as one of the genres he doesn't like — there's quite a list (but what he does...

- Feb 2, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: February 3, 1980
Husband and wife musical duos don't tend to end well. Look at Sonny & Cher and Ike & Tina Turner. But when the chemistry is right, they...

- Jan 26, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: January 27, 1980
For celebrities in 2020, multi-tasking means appearing on a reality TV show and maintaining an Instagram account. In the '70s and '80s,...

- Jan 19, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: January 20, 1980
OK, let's get this 1980 party started for real. I wrote about the first new chart for the decade in 2018 and updated my post last week —...

- Jul 2, 2018
- 16 min
The first Australian singles chart of the 1980s
Originally posted in 2018. Updated in 2020. When I started this blog six years ago, I took a look back at the first ARIA chart I...