CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. Last week, I promised there'd be more laughs — and as Morris Minor...

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. I've never really understood the appeal of comedy records. Sure,...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. What's this? Isn't it a day early for our look back at the ARIA...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. Over the past few months, as I've been taking a look back at the...

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. The new entries from this week in 1988 can pretty much be divided...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. Valentine's Day, 1988 — and there was nothing I loved more in the...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. It has to be said: the charts for the first few weeks of 1988 had...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. This week in 1988, school holidays were coming to an end and it...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. There we were, a full month after Christmas 1987 and the majority...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2013. Updated in 2018. As I sit down to write this post, I've just returned home after seeing The Killers in concert at The Metro in Sydney. If you don't include boy bands and girl groups, they're my favourite group of the '00s (if you do, they're in fourth place) so it was a night full of some of my favourite songs from recent years. The Communards said hello to another cover version This week in 1988, four bands I liked to on

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018. Three weeks is a long time to wait when you're a chart fanatic, so...