CHART BEATS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH POP

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2014. Updated in 2019. I always thought that if I ever became a recording artist, I...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2014. Updated in 2019. Politics and rock music have always gone hand in hand — and that...

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. Timing is everything — and that's especially the case when it comes...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2014. Updated in 2019. There's something to be said for quitting while you're ahead....

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2014. Updated in 2019. One thing I failed to mention a couple of weeks ago when it was the anniversary of Coca-Cola taking over the ARIA chart was that as well as the colour becoming permanently red, the size of the chart also increased to A4. Neneh Cherry: looking good in every way Gone were the days when you could slip a chart between the pages of Smash Hits and rest assured you'd get the thing home in one piece. I remember

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. There have been some dud weeks on the ARIA chart, but the top 50...

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. Less than a year after it last had a major makeover, the ARIA chart...

Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2014. Updated in 2019. Who doesn't love a comeback story? This week in 1989, an artist...

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2014. Updated in 2019. Christmas 2013 might already seem like a distant memory for us in the present day, but in early 1989, people were clearly clinging on to the Yuletide spirit. This week that year, the two highest debuts on the ARIA top 50 were by festive singles — despite it being the middle of January. Merry, er, January from Cliff Richard One of those new entries was a double A-side release which included a modern spin o

Originally posted as  25 Years Ago This Week  in 2014. Updated in 2019. Happy New Year! As 2014 gets underway, this blog reaches 1989 on the ARIA top 50 — and it would be a year during which the chart would undergo a pretty major transformation. More on that in a few weeks. Together, together... the duet demanded by pop fans around the world Our first chart for 1989 is actually also the final chart for 1988, since it's dated for the period from December 26, 1988 to January 8