CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

The ARIA singles chart was a bit of a funny one this week in 1984. Three of the songs that entered lower down the top 100 would re-enter...

I'm sure no band ever sets out to be a one-hit wonder. But if you had to be one, then best to have your sole smash single in the '80s....

Every so often a recording artist comes along who's unlike anyone else. That was certainly the case this week in 1984 when a...

Nothing helps a single sell a truckload of copies more than controversy. From Elvis to Eamon , artists that've caused a stir have frequently found themselves at the top of the chart. Frankie says: the way to have a hit is to have your song banned This week in 1984, a song that'd been banned by the BBC (but still reached number 1 in the UK) made its debut on the ARIA singles chart. The controversy surrounding the single can only have helped its chances here. There was nothing

It'd been around for years, but 1984 was the year breakdancing went mainstream. There were films, songs, stories on kids' shows like...

Music history is littered with stories of how one record company exec or another didn't think a song would become a hit before being proved wrong when it did just that. This week in 1984, one such song debuted on the ARIA singles chart on its way to the top 10. "Break My Stride" became a top 10 hit for the first time in 1984 The artist was proved right and his decision to leave the label that didn't believe in the track paid off. Not only that, but the song has actually been

It's so often the case — a song gives a previously fairly niche band a major commercial breakthrough and the band comes to dislike it....

I have mixed feelings about posthumous releases. On the one hand, a song or album completed after an artist has passed away may not...

Who doesn't love formation dancing? From Bobby Brown to Backstreet Boys to OK Go, Janet Jackson to Britney Spears to Beyoncé, music clips...

Music acts can pretty much be divided into innovators and imitators, and as our look back at the ARIA charts from years past finally...