CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

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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.

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Mar 17, 2017
3 min

This Week In 1984: March 18, 1984

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...

Mar 10, 2017
3 min

This Week In 1984: March 11, 1984

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....

Mar 3, 2017
5 min

This Week In 1984: March 4, 1984

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

Feb 25, 2017
5 min

This Week In 1984: February 26, 1984

Nothing helps a single sell a truckload of copies more than controversy. From Elvis to Eamon, artists that've caused a stir have...

Feb 18, 2017
4 min

This Week In 1984: February 19, 1984

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

Feb 11, 2017
4 min

This Week In 1984: February 12, 1984

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...

Feb 4, 2017
3 min

This Week In 1984: February 5, 1984

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....

Jan 28, 2017
4 min

This Week In 1984: January 29, 1984

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

Jan 21, 2017
6 min

This Week In 1984: January 22, 1984

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

Jan 14, 2017
4 min

This Week In 1984: January 15, 1984

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

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