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- Dec 22, 2017
- 8 min
This Week In 1984: December 23, 1984
It's fitting that I write this week's 1984 recap in the UK, the home of the Christmas number 1. Nowhere else in the world is the race to...
- Dec 15, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1984: December 16, 1984
Landing a number 1 song can do amazing things for a music act's career. Take the two female singers who debuted on the ARIA top 50 this...
- Dec 8, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1984: December 9, 1984
After the deluge of debuts over the previous few weeks, things quietened down on the ARIA singles chart this week in 1984 as those new...
- Dec 1, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: December 2, 1984
It's not something you see very often — especially in the '80s — so when all the new entries on the ARIA singles chart come from female...
- Nov 24, 2017
- 7 min
This Week In 1984: November 25, 1984
There are big chart weeks and then there was the ARIA singles top 50 from this week in 1984. Among the 10 new entries — the most for the...
- Nov 17, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: November 18, 1984
Australians have always loved to laugh, never more so than in the mid-'80s when stand-up comedians were regulars on the ARIA singles and...
- Nov 10, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1984: November 11, 1984
Up until the last month of 1989, every Madonna single released in the '80s except one had reached the top 20 (and most had gone top 10)...
- Nov 3, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: November 4, 1984
The phrase "jump the shark" is usually employed in relation to the moment when TV shows go from awesome to awful, but it could equally be...
- Oct 27, 2017
- 6 min
This Week In 1984: October 28, 1984
Some singers have the worst luck — and the female vocalist behind the highest new entry on the ARIA top 50 this week in 1984 is a case in...
- Oct 20, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1984: October 21, 1984
We all have those songs we can't stand. Sometimes it's an irrational, inexplicable hatred — it just rubs you up the wrong way. Sometimes,...
- Oct 13, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: October 14, 1984
It must suck to be a celebrity with a sibling who's more famous than you are. No matter what you do, it's always going to be overshadowed...
- Oct 6, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: October 7, 1984
This time last week, we were reminiscing about a major hit from a man in full make-up and an eye-catching outfit. This week, we look back...
- Sep 29, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1984: September 30, 1984
It seems kind of appropriate with everything that's going on in Australia in 2017 for this week's flashback to the ARIA chart of 1984 to...
- Sep 22, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: September 23, 1984
In 1984, U2 were just another up-and-coming band. They'd already had a couple of minor hits in Australia, but were years away from...
- Sep 15, 2017
- 2 min
This Week In 1984: September 16, 1984
After a few busy weeks on the ARIA chart, things quietened down this week in 1984 with only two new entries to the top 50 — both by...
- Sep 8, 2017
- 6 min
This Week In 1984: September 9, 1984
Some big singles were released in 1984 — songs that would sell millions of copies around the world and come to define the decade as a...
- Sep 1, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1984: September 2, 1984
There were some big names behind the new entries on the ARIA singles top 50 this week in 1984. You had a male artist who'd topped the...
- Aug 25, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1984: August 26, 1984
I used to get quite disappointed when songs I really liked didn't go higher on the chart. And then I reached a certain point where I kind...
- Aug 18, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: August 19, 1984
You wouldn't get away with it today. If a new band wanted to call themselves The Avengers or Justice League, I'm sure lawyers would...
- Aug 11, 2017
- 3 min
This Week In 1984: August 12, 1984
It's funny how many career-defining moments almost never happen. This week in 1984, a single debuted that would completely revitalise a...
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